Welcome to the 2025-26 VEX IQ Season

Hi coaches, mentors, and robotics friends,

The 2025-26 Mix & Match season is here - and your students are about to embark on their most exciting robotics challenge yet! Let's get your team competition-ready in 3 simple steps:

1. Register / renew your teams

• $200 per team for 2025–26.
• Register on RobotEvents

2. Learn the new game: Mix & Match

Want a quick game overview? Download the official game manual summary

• 📘 Read: Game Manual

• 🌐 Explore: VIQRC Current Game page

• ▶️ Watch: Watch the Game Reveal

3. Grab an event and put it on the calendar 📅

Find Nebraska events and Iowa events on RobotEvents.

Note: Several tournaments are still in the process of being added, so check often to watch for more tournaments as they're released.

Build faster with this year’s Hero Bot

Are you new and need a place to start? Try building Huey as your baseline, then iterate to your students’ strategy throughout the season.

Huey resources: 3D Instructions | PDF Instructions | Parts List

Start Your Engineering Notebook (paper or digital)

Notebooking is a core part of VIQRC. Choose what fits your team—paper or digital—and make steady, dated entries each practice.

• Learn more: notebooking.vex.com (overview of paper & digital options)
• Digital resources:
  • Template: https://link.vex.com/viqc-notebook-template
  • Instructions: https://link.vex.com/viqc-notebook-instructions
  • Digital IQ Parts: https://link.vex.com/viqc-notebook-parts
• Paper tips: Use a bound notebook (no loose pages), add a table of contents, date every entry, and bring it to events.

We're here to help

We’re here to help—gainingSTEAM offers coach support, training, and event assistance across Nebraska. For tournaments we host or support, we provide the tournament-hosting equipment (fields, electronics, tablets, displays).

New team? Reply for a quick "Coach 101"

Contact us

• Email: [email protected]
• Web: gainingSTEAM.net