The Toyota Boshoku America Hub City Robo Rumble is set for its inaugural debut on Saturday, Oct. 7 at Jackson State Community College (JSCC). This free and open to the public event will take place from 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. with the competition portion of the event taking place from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The VEX Robotics sanctioned event with Toyota Boshoku America as the title sponsor will be the first of its kind for the Hub City, with 32-teams traveling from across the state and region to compete in the skills-based robotics tournament.

Teams will compete in a series of challenges, pushing their student-designed robots to their coding and mechanical limits. Throughout the tournament, teams will play the VEX Robotics Over Under game on a 12×12 field. This game will test their ability to work together as an engineering team, overcoming design, programming, and building obstacles all while trying to develop a winning game strategy. Each team is also assessed on the quality and durability of their construction, ingenuity, and more, allowing teams to also earn awards in categories outside of the overall winner. The winners of this tournament will advance to the Tennessee State Championship held in Nashville in March 2024.

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