Season Plan for
Robots & Coding Competition Team
2025-2026 Season
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A $600 value.
Robots & Coding Competition Team
For Ages 9-15 | School Year 2025 - 2026
🚀 Full-Year Engineering Experience
Join the team to immerse your child in building, programming, and competing with VEX IQ robotics from September 2025 through May 2026.
What’s Included:
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No experience needed
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Afro-Centric staff & culture
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Build, program, and compete in VEX IQ Robotics Challenges
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Self-confidence, engineering, and social skills growth
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Preparation to be an engineer, executive, or entrepreneur
🗓 Practice & Competition Schedule
Weekly Practices
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Pick one day: Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday
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Drop-in between 3:00–6:00 PM
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Triangle Teams of 3 choose arrival/departure times
Optional Scrimmages
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Fridays, 3:00–6:00 PM
Monthly Tournaments
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One Saturday per month
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8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
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Hosted at ckingknowledge Institute and schools across Metro Detroit
🛠 Skills & Curriculum
Skills Learned:
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Multi-physics engineering
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Social-emotional awareness
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Teamwork & collaboration
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Communication
Curriculums Delivered:
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Robots & Coding 1+2
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Self-Confidence Curriculum
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Anxiety Control Tools
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Social-Emotional Curriculum
💲 Tuition & Location
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$219/month per student (12-month financing)
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Location:
ckingknowledge Institute
29433 Southfield Road, Suite 112
Southfield, MI 48076
🌍 Why Choose Us?
Your child will be able to solve any problem they encounter in the changing future using the lessons from our programs. By 18 years old, your child will be prepared to work full time as an engineer, executive, or entrepreneur.
Last updated: 2025.July.14.Saturday
How to sign up?
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Complete the Registration Form using the Register Here button on this page.
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Pay a deposit of $219 online at https://www.ckingknowledge.org/donate Please include your student(s) names in the Note. Check the box for “Write us a comment” and type your student’s name. You will receive a ‘Welcome to the Team!’ email as confirmation that the completed Registration Form and Deposit have been received.
The details of the Competition game and rules can be viewed at https://recf.org/vex-iq-robotics-competition/
Academically, they increase their grades and test scores because of the hands-on learning from applying to their robot what school teachers have already taught them. They learn how to collaborate by working in a codependent learning team. They learn
• physics,
• mechanical engineering,
• software engineering,
• the engineering design process,
• teamwork,
• note taking,
• communication,
• and soft skills
at the same time. They develop their communication skills by implementing the engineering design process to accomplish the team’s goals or get their robot to score points.
How?
Maximum of 63 students. 2-3 students per Triangle Team, 21 Triangle Teams maximum for this season, and each Triangle Team with their own robot. They will build their robot to score points on the field in one certain way. Then they choose a new way of scoring points and will have to iterate their engineering design. Then they set a new goal… and repeat this 4-step Engineering Process. With each iteration, they learn new engineering concepts while practicing math, communication, and teamwork skills. They document their decisions in their engineering notebooks to understand why they made previous engineering design decisions and to record their success milestones. The engineering notebooks are reviewed at the tournament to contribute to their ability to win a trophy.
It is important for the Triangle Team’s Village to collaborate logistics of bringing the robot's rolling storage totes [provided by ckingknowledge Institute] to and from tournaments. The Village are the people who care for each of the students on the Triangle Team.
The details of the game and rules can be viewed at this link to the League's host, REC Foundation : https://recf.org/vex-iq-robotics-competition/
The Tournament Competition Season begins in September and ends in February. From February through May, we will work on skill development and prepare for the next Tournament Competition Season.
If a team qualifies for the State Championship, practices will continue through March. If the Triangle Team qualifies for the Worlds Championship, practices will continue through April.
When?
Where?
Practices will be held at ckingknowledge Institute at 29433 Southfield Road, Southfield Michigan 48076, Suite 112
Tournaments will be at ckingknowledge Institute and other locations in the Metro Detroit area. Typical locations:
--- Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy at 1300 Giddings Rd., Pontiac, MI 48340. 20 minutes from Southfield, MI.
--- Monroe County Community College at 1555 S. Raisinville Rd, Monroe, MI 48161. 60 minutes from Southfield, MI.
--- Cranbrook Kingswood Girls Middle School at 39221 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304. 15 minutes from Southfield, MI.
Who?
This 2025-2026 season will be our eighth season coaching the ckingknowledge Robotics Competition Team. Our coaches are engineers, school teachers, and parents with many years of industry experience before becoming coaches. Everyone has an annual background check and are doing this work because we want your student to choose a career as an engineer and use their gifts to advance humanity.
Your Student Can Be A Trophy Winner
What's the difference?
A question we frequently get asked is why not participate in the league F.I.R.S.T.? See the comparison table below for our explanation. F.I.R.S.T. = For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/fll
Why should my child be an engineer?
We know you have a lot of choices for investing in your student’s education. Engineers are professional problem solvers. We teach your student that they are the ones who decides if they are an engineer or not. Once they choose that they are a professional problem solver and they exercise this brain muscle in our programs, they are unstoppable. Any problem they encounter, they will be able to apply the Engineering Process and the essential soft skills learned in our programs.
