Robotics
Overwatch's road to the VEX World Championship
Team Overwatch 28176N (Newton Robotics Club) went from a school workshop in Hanoi to an invitation to the VEX Robotics World Championship in the US. Three qualifying events, two awards at each — then the Create Award that sealed the ticket. Not luck; competence, repeated.
6
awards across 3 qualifiers
3
countries competed in
World
VEX finals — USA 2026
28176N
Team Overwatch · Newton
My role on Overwatch
I owned the team's engineering documentation, design and media — the parts a judge reads before ever watching the robot drive: the engineering notebook that records every design decision and failure, the design work behind the machine, and how we present it. It taught me that in engineering, the thinking only counts if you can show it.
The road, step by step
V5RC Road to Nationals — Northern Qualification
Tournament Champion · Energy Award
Season 2025–26 · Vietnam
Two awards in the team's first outing of the season — and the ticket toward Nationals.
Vietnam National Championship — VEX Robotics 2026
Robot Skills Champion · Innovate Award
National final · VEX V5
Technical precision (Skills) and engineering design (Innovate), at the national final.
VEX Robotics Asia Open — Signature Event
Talent Award · First Honor
Beijing, China
Recognised on an international stage — “where gears turn and cultures connect.”
New Year's Mayhem — VEX V5 Signature Event
Create Award — the qualifier
6–8 Feb 2026 · Ho Chi Minh City
The Create Award, on top of five strong events, secured the invitation to the World Championship.
VEX Robotics World Championship 2026
Invited — the global final
St. Louis, USA · 21–30 April 2026
Officially invited by the REC Foundation to compete against nearly 2,400 teams from 60+ countries — from a school club in Hanoi to the world's biggest robotics stage, held in the United States.
Behind the scenes
Why it matters to me
Robotics is where I build with my hands, not just in code. A robot doesn't care how elegant your idea is — it either scores or it doesn't. Every award on this page came from the same loop: design it, watch it fail on the field, fix it overnight, and go again — with a team I trusted. It's the same instinct behind everything else I make.