World Championships Hall of Fame Judges Award VEX IQ World Championship 2023–24 22020B Chilling in Space KidweLab Sportsmanship Award VEX V5RC World Championship 2023–24 Glenfield College 2918D Glenfield College Excellence Award VEX U World Championship 2022–23 JANK Division Finalists VEX IQ World Championship 2022–23 Skywalker Destroyers Team 3168G Skywalker Robotics Division Champions VEX IQ World Championship 2022–23 Rovers Team 48495A Energy Award VEX U World Championship 2023–24 MANTZ Massey University Inspire Award VEX V5RC World Championship 2023–24 Skywalker Technobots 3168T Skywalker Robotics Design Award VEX U World Championship 2022–23 WINGU5 Sportsmanship Award VEX IQ World Championship 2022–23 Team 2223H Brobots College Street Normal School Division Finalists VEX IQ World Championships 2022–23 Rovers Team 48495A Create Award VEX U World Championship 2023–24 JANK Tāmaki Makaurau Build Award VEX IQ World Championship 2023–24 2223H Brobots College Street Normal School Mathworks Challenge Winners VEX IQ World Online Challenge 2022–23 Team 3204 Callixtus St Peter's College Sportsmanship Award VEX V5RC World Championship 2022–23 Otumoetai College Team 2941B Otumoetai College

Get Involved With Kiwibots Get Involved With Kiwibots There's a place for everyone in our hapori (community) – whether it's starting your own team, volunteering at an event, becoming an industry partner, or cheering from the audience! Starting a New Team So you're keen on getting involved with competing? Awesome! Team requirements: At least 3 students Access to VEX Robotics kits Enthusiasm and willingness to learn! If you are able to fulfil all the requirements above, that's perfect! You have the essentials for starting a team. Get in touch with us at contact@kiwibots.co.nz Register To compete at our events, you will need to register your teams annually with the RECF (Robotics Education & Competition Foundation ) at RobotEvents.com Gear Up Make sure you have a VEX kit for the season. We recommend: VIQRC GEN 2 for Years 5–10 V5 Competition Starter Kit for Years 11+ Get Vetted We provide a safe environment for all tamariki that take part in our programmes. Coaches, mentors and key volunteers are all vetted. View our Child Protection Policy Participate Head along to events to make connections, improve your skills, and share design ideas. RSVP for each event on RobotEvents.com Still Have Questions? Get in touch about starting a team!

Community As a charitable trust, all of our work relies on the support of sponsors, regional partners, and volunteers nationwide that provide time, energy, funds and skills to bring Kiwibots events to young New Zealanders. Funding Partners We are so grateful to our funding partners whose support make our projects are reality for so many young New Zealanders. These companies share our mission of providing opportunities to grow tech literacy and broaden the skillsets of the next generations – future-proofing Kiwi kids and New Zealand as a whole. If you're interested in becoming a sponsor, donating or seeing how else you can help, please send an email to our National Manager, Michelle Mollard, at michellem@kiwibots.co.nz to see how you can get involved. Every little bit counts and makes a world of difference to our work. Funds contribute to our major events, support for local events, products and materials for teams from the far north to the deep south, ensuring that science and tech can remain accessible for everybody. Partner Organisations Central Region Robotics Trust works with Kiwibots to produce the VEX IQ Challenge National Championships, as well as grow all robotics STEAM education and engagement across the Central North Island. STEAM-ED's mission is to equip students with the skill and mindset needed to thrive in tomorrow's rapidly evolving world, through the delivery of high-quality STEAM programmes. Approximately 70% of STEAM-ED's programmes in the Western Bay of Plenty use Kiwibots provided VEX robotics equipment. Kidwe lab works in STEAM education, that offers creative lessons for kids from 6-16. We take a student-centered approach to teaching and learning and our focus is on discovery learning. We guide the learners through the concept rather than tell them how to do it. This means that they learn how to look for solutions to problems on their own and learn from their own experiences. RoboPā is a makerspace that provides opportunity for Māori youth to access technology and STEAM equipment, particularly in rural regions of New Zealand. We work with the following organisations to further our outreach of STEAM engagement. We work with a number of groups who all share the same mission (and have plenty of fun while at it!)

The Board of the New Zealand Robotics Charitable Trust, (Kiwibots), is delighted to advise of the appointment of Michelle Hazeleger-Mollard as our new National Operations Manager, 10th December 2021. Michelle is an educator with a Masters in Educational Leadership, based in Palmerston North. She joins us after her role as a teacher and International Student Academic Manager at St. Peter’s College since 2014. Michelle may be a familiar face to some, having been involved with Kiwibots programmes as a parent and event volunteer for 7+ years. She has also worked all over the world, including Thailand and Japan, as well as time spent living in India working as Deputy Principal at an international school, in Delhi. The Board is extremely excited to be welcoming Michelle into this role as Kiwibots continues to grow. With Nationals fast approaching and previous National Manager, Janet Van Jenkins, now based overseas and supporting from afar, we will do our best to keep things running smoothly for the community in this handover. We would like to thank our incredible Regional Coordinators, volunteers, schools and students for their commitment and support through this period of change. We will be arranging for Michelle to meet with the volunteers, communities and schools throughout the country at the earliest opportunity. We would also like to thank Fisher & Paykel Healthcare for their support with the recruitment process these last months. We look forward to working with you to continue expanding Kiwibots programme across Aotearoa to future-proof Kiwi kids. Mike Hearn Chair New Zealand Robotics Charitable Trust (Kiwibots)

Over the last year and a half, we have had the privilege of running in person and online events for the community as we change between Alert Levels on this pandemic rollercoaster. A huge thanks to all of our community for being so understanding and adapting to the systems we've been putting in place to help prioritise everyone's safety. The new habit of RSVPing and checking in on arrival has helped immensely in the last few lockdowns, allowing us to work directly with MOH to quickly contact trace and communicate with attendees. With the restrictions changing for the current Delta variant, we've updated our protocols to reflect the extra measures we will be implementing to ensure event safety for the Kiwibots community. Please read the information below carefully. Capacity and Registration With indoor events being limited to 50 participants and spectators, RSVP-ing individual attendance via www.kiwibots.co.nz/upcoming-events prior to the event will be mandatory. Entry may be denied to unregistered individuals who walk-in on the day. A volunteer will be at the venue entry point to assist with this checking in too. Many regions may now also host multiple events on a single day by splitting IQ and VRC - so please check our events page carefully so that you register for the correct scrimmage. Read the event details - some events may limit how many teams from an organisation, or how many ākonga/students per team, may attend. If you incorrectly register for an event, please let us know at contact@kiwibots.co.nz or email your Regional Coordinator so we can remove you from the incorrect event and free up a space. Checking in on our system is compulsory and additional to the government issued QR COVID-19 scanning system. This is because we recognise many students may not have their own personal devices and are legally required to keep our own records. Venues Once again, please make sure you read the information on the Kiwibots Events page carefully, as regions may host multiple scrimmages at different venues, different rooms within a venue (e.g. Gym and the Hall), or at different times. As many venues do not allow for events at Level 2, please be prepared that venues may change to those that can host events and visitors at Level 2. If you have already registered to an event and the venue changes, our team will endeavour to let you know with plenty of warning. Venues will have a single entry point to help manage sign-ins and ensure we stay within capacity limits. Event Hygiene and Safety Things are going to look a bit different at Delta 2. Some things stay the same though - do not attend an event if you are showing any cold or flu-like symptoms, get tested and let us know you will not be attending so we can remove you from the RSVP list. Remember to regularly wash your hands, avoid touching your face and sneeze or cough into your elbow. Volunteers Kiwibots event volunteers (Regional Coordinators and any additional volunteers critical to event support, referees, Tournament Manager tech, etc.) will be wearing Kiwibots teal shirts and face masks for all events at Delta 2. Volunteers for events will be staying in a volunteer capacity for the event, and should not be a general supporter that between matches offers to help reset the field and 'change roles'. This is due to event volunteers not coming within the 50 person capacity. If you would like to offer to volunteer for an event, please contact your Regional Coordinator prior to the event. Mask Wearing Mask-wearing is not compulsory at Delta 2 for our attendees (non-volunteers), however in line with the Ministry of Health guidelines, we do strongly recommend them for individuals aged 12 and over given the number of teams from across the region in attendance, and possible difficulties with physical distancing in some venues. Cleaning There will be hand sanitisers available at entry to the venue and at the match fields. Please feel free to bring your own hand sanitiser as well. Shared surfaces such as trestle tables, high-touch areas and Kiwibots devices etc. will undergo a pre- and post- event sanitisation. Please be prepared to assist with this as Regional Coordinators may ask each team to help with wiping down their team's trestle table/workspace at the beginning and end of each event. Teams may wipe down their tables more frequently throughout the event if they wish, simply ask the Regional Coordinator for the sanitising spray. If you have any questions about the updated Delta 2 protocols for events, please feel free to get in touch with us directly at contact@kiwibots.co.nz. Events will not take place at Level 3 or higher, and we are reviewing how new Alert Levels impact our major events, so please do stay tuned as we work through these difficult times. We can't wait to safely put events back on for our Kiwibots kids, and thank you all for being so understanding as we find ways to navigate how to get events back for you all. Kia kaha Aotearoa!

With NZ's tech success story, Rocket Lab, going public yesterday - it's a timely reminder to look at all the incredible successes our students achieve every year on the global stage at the VEX World Championships. Kiwibots kids are absolutely following in the footsteps of changemakers like Peter Beck, and we can't wait for the future with these kids at the helm. With support from The Royal Society, our students competed in the live virtual championships of May this year and snagged a number of top awards for Aotearoa. We are so proud of them as we won an award at every grade too! Ka pai koutou! 👏 It's worth noting in this too that we were lucky enough to run a primarily in-person season for 2020-21, and as such the students had robots designed for the in-person rules. In some ways, our students were disadvantaged heading into the worlds against teams who had spend the last 6-10 months preparing for online challenges with designs specific to those rules, so we are especially proud of how well our tamariki adapted and rose to the challenge. Throw into the mix some very early morning starts for our young'uns as they do their interviews at 6am NZST to meet with judges in the USA. Thanks to all the teachers and parents who supported them through a pretty exhausting week! A massive congratulations to all our teams that represented NZ on the world stage in Live Remote Tournaments and Live Remote Skills - Lynfield College, Rubixcoders, Skywalker Robotics, House of Science Tauranga, NakiBots, TopCat, Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School, and College Street Normal School. 🏆 House of Science Tauranga 8757A - Engineering subdivision champions and Innovate Award winners 🏆 Skywalker Robotics 3168S - Create Award winners 🏆 College Street Normal School 2223E Phoenix - Innovate Award winners 🏆 AURA - VEX Innovators Award 🏆 Craig Yearbury - Inspiration All-Star Award and VEX Hall of Fame