Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) sent two teams to compete in the recent 2024-2025 National VEX U Robotics Elite Competition and VEX Worlds China Qualifier in Shanghai. After two days of intense competition, Team XJTU1 won the league's only Excellence Award and secured a spot in the 2024-2025 VEX Robotics World Championship.

Members of team XJTU1 pose for a group photo.

As the first major event of the new season, the university division attracted 29 teams from 17 universities nationwide.

XJTU1's success was the result of a month of relentless preparation. The team worked tirelessly, writing multiple programs and designing, assembling, and testing new robots. They discussed and refined strategies, meticulously drafted engineering notebooks, and promptly solved newly discovered issues to achieve optimal performance. On the competition field, every strategic adjustment and every robot optimization reflected the team's wisdom and hard work.

The VEX Robotics World Championship, organized by the Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation in the United States, is an international educational robotics competition. It aims to inspire students' interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics while fostering teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving skills. Featuring the highest standard of educational robotics competitions worldwide, the competition requires participating teams to design, build, and program their robots, which must complete scoring tasks in specific scenarios.