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Scavenger - Hunt VEX

This scavenger hunt document provides information about various parts found in a Vex robotics kit. It lists the name, image and potential locations of each part, and includes a question to prompt the user to think about how each part functions and could be used. There are over 15 different parts listed, ranging from wheels and gears to tracks, bearings and structural elements like bars and plates. The document encourages identifying key characteristics of each part and considering how they connect and interact within a robot design.

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Scavenger - Hunt VEX

This scavenger hunt document provides information about various parts found in a Vex robotics kit. It lists the name, image and potential locations of each part, and includes a question to prompt the user to think about how each part functions and could be used. There are over 15 different parts listed, ranging from wheels and gears to tracks, bearings and structural elements like bars and plates. The document encourages identifying key characteristics of each part and considering how they connect and interact within a robot design.

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Directions: Find all of the items below, fill in the

Vex Scavenger Hunt blanks, and answer the questions about each one
-There are 3 places each could be:
Community Bins, Community Boxes, and Team boxes
Name______________________________

Name Image Where Can I Find it Question about


How many different types of wheels are
there?

How many different types of screws are


there in your vex kit?

Are there other “channels” that look


C- similar to this item? How will you tell
Channels them apart?

Flat plate How many different lengths of these are


there?
(Rectangle or
Square)
What are 2 things you can do to the long
Flat bar flat plates that you cannot do to
anything else?

Bearing What other items, in your vex kit, does


this look like?
block
(T Bearing)
What items go around a sprocket?
Sprocket

What are the main differences between


Gear gears and sprockets

What are 2 different vex items you


Drive might connect to a drive shaft
Shaft

Shaft Collar What should you do if the little black


piece is missing from a drive shaft?

These are used to prevent friction for


Bearing drive shafts that need to spin. What
Flat, might you build that will require these?

(Circle
Bearing)
Why might you use this?
Plus
Gusset

What goes into each side of the


Standoff standoffs?

Name Image Where Can I Find it Question about


How many different types of tracks did
Tracks you come across?

What is the main difference between


Square this and the circle bearing? Why would
Bearing you use this instead of a circle bearing?

What Color screw attaches?


Nut

What do you think this is used for?


Spacer

1. Why do all of these different Vex parts have consistent size and spacing of square holes?

2. Why is there such a variety of structural pieces?

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