Who Are We ?
The Matabots are a collective group of motivated individuals who come from a variety of educational backgrounds, all with a common interest in mind: love for science and engineering. Our main purpose is to design, build, and program robots that will compete in the World VEX U Robotics competition. Along this journey, we also encourage others within our surrounding community to pursue similar goals by teaching the fundamentals of engineering and science. Through robotics we hope to inspire young professionals to advance in science, math, and technology.
A Message From Your Officers
We're glad the club has sparked your interest in robotics.
It is our mission to inspire young professionals to advance in science, math, and technology.
As your officers we hope to provide you with enough resources to encourage a healthy competitive environment.
Being part of the Vex Robotics Club gives you the opportunity to be a part of the Annual Vex Robotics World Championship. Every year in April, Vex University teams from around the world travel to the United States and compete in this highly anticipated competition. We can proudly say that any CSUN student of any major on campus can be a part of the Vex Robotics Club and gain the skills to participate in the World Championship. Along with competing in events, we occasionally host the California State Regional competition for High School and Middle School Students and the annual California University Scrimmage for VEX University teams. We love serving communities.
Matabots Major Stats:
Mechanical / Manufacturing Systems / Electrical Engineering
Computer Science / Computer Engineering
Other
CSUN 1 is california state northridge university's veteran vex robotics team. The veteran team mentors the current CSUN2 team and aspires to get both teams to qualify for the World Competition.
CSUN 2 is the junior varsity team of the csun vex robotics club. They are a new team with members who have shown interest and promise to gain experience and knowledge for vex competitions. As new members they hope to introduce new strategies and ways of thinking to the game.
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Some of the Events we're Competing/Volunteering at
CSUN2's First Match
Sat 7 Dec 2019
Our CSUN2 Team competing in their first Tournament at USC
Meet the Clubs
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Our Matabots outreaching to Students at CSUN
Meet the Clubs
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Our Matabots outreaching to Staff at CSUN
The VEX Youtube Channel contains a quick introduction to this year's new Robotics Challenge: Change Up . It also provides training videos for referees which is also good for students to watch so they have a better understanding of the rules. They also upload their newest products that we can buy and upload highlights of their tournaments.
To program our bots, we use PROS, an open source development environment for the VEX V5 EDR Platform.
Another Coding environment that we use for the VEX V5 EDR Platform is the VEXcode Text, which contains coding environment and tools similar to ones that professional programmers use.
Although it is daunting to use a new program, The PROS Website also provides many tutorials.
For more information about VEX, the current game, recent games, and more, please look at the Vex Wikipedia.
Watch as we win a qualification match and demonstrate our hard work and strategy.
STEAM Bot Workshop has only one mission, to provide a learning experience that promotes innovation, creativity, and imagination for new coming STEM students.
Numerade is a program that educates students from all walks of life. Visit their website to see their highly interactive content and informative videos that are easily accessible and very affordable.
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Swing by if you're interested, or leave us a message.