
Knox Grammar hosted its very first on-campus VEX IQ Robotics tournament at the weekend with 24 teams travelling from all over Sydney to take part.
Mr Ian Fairhurst
Team Leader of Innovation, Knox Preparatory School
The students who attended showed tremendous creativity and ingenuity in their varied approaches to this season’s challenge.



The teamwork and collaboration between different teams throughout the tournament was a positive affirmation of why this type of competitive robotics is so popular around the world.
Congratulations to all those involved and a massive thank you to the incredibly knowledgeable staff from Sydney Robotics Academy, as well as all the volunteers, scorekeepers, judges and referees who gave their time to make this event so successful.
Our Knox teams performed strongly with a number participating in a tournament for the very first time.
A number of Knox teams were awarded trophies by the judges for standing out in the following areas:
Amaze Award
Team 2076B: ‘High-Q’ – Andy Jiang, Lucas Zhang, Lucas Ling and Bob Zheng
Create Award
Team 2076E: ‘44333’ – Maxx Wang, Viaan Patel, Jaden Loekman, Jeffrey Tan and Jayden Huang
Judges Award
Team 2076F: ‘Robots United’ – Patrick Alphandary, Archie Fairhurst, Edward Li and Thomas Norrie
Sportsmanship Award
Team 2076H: LawnMower – Franco Fan, Ethan Xue, Aaron Li and Neil Patney
The students are looking forward to their next tournament coming up at Barker College at the end of the week!

08 April 2026
Under the guiding principle of Service, and to give back to the Lithgow community where this year’s Annual Field Exercise (AFX) was held, the Knox Ravenswood Army Cadet Unit (KRACU) conducted community service activities in partnership with Lithgow Oberon Landcare, Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) and the Lithgow Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA).

07 April 2026
VEX Robotics team High-Q (Year 9 students Eric, Jayden, Lucas, Ricky) travelled to Iowa to take part in the US Open tournament. There were 150 teams competing from all over the world and this was one of the last tournaments before the World Championships in April.

01 April 2026
The community is invited to attend the annual Knox Grammar School Anzac Memorial Service for the Old Knox Grammarians’ Association and the Ceremonial Parade of the Knox Ravenswood Army Cadet Unit on Sunday 17 May 2025.
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