About RoboTZ

Driven by Innovation

We're a passionate team of student engineers, mentors, and supporters united by a shared love for robotics, technology, and competition.

Our Story

Passion Meets Precision

RoboTZ was founded with one clear mission: to inspire and empower young minds through the exciting world of competitive robotics. This program has grown from meeting at a mom's kitchen table to today our students are designing Award-Winning robots at a LAB at Southwestern Michigan College. Along side all the bots that have been built - there is an abundance of character, confidence, and critical thinking. At Robo Tech Zone, students build robots and robots build students!

About Students

Students First

RoboTZ welcomes students in 7th – 12th grade. In addition to learning valuable design, construction, coding, and engineering skills; students will gain life skills such as teamwork, perseverance, self-confidence, respect, professionalism, leadership, communication, collaboration, strategic planning, project management, community outreach, and critical thinking — not to mention…

We Build Bots & Have FUN!

About Teams

Competing at the Highest Level

The world faces an unprecedented need for new innovators, thinkers, and problem-solving leaders. RoboTZ students compete in one of the largest and fastest growing robotics programs globally, VEX VRC. The goal of VEX Robotics Competitions is to create engaging, affordable, and powerful solutions that immerse students in STEM through the excitement of building and programming robots.

Each year teams are tasked to compete in an exciting new game-based engineering challenge. Our Award Winning RoboTZ students have competed at regional, state, national and world levels. Learn more about VEX VRC and the current game reveal at VEXrobotics.com.

Our Pillars

What Drives Us

Skills Development

What Students Learn

Our program develops well-rounded engineers ready for the future.

Mechanical Engineering

Design and build robust robot structures using gears, motors, and precision mechanisms. Students learn CAD, prototyping, and iterative design principles.

Programming & Autonomy

Write code that controls robots in both driver-operated and fully autonomous modes. Learn algorithms, sensor integration, and real-time decision making.

Strategy & Problem Solving

Develop match strategies, analyze opponents, and adapt on the fly. Critical thinking under pressure is one of the most valuable skills students gain.

Project Management

Learn to manage timelines, divide tasks, document progress in engineering notebooks, and deliver results under deadlines — skills that transfer to any career.