Robotics Club: LEGO to VEX V5
Robotics Club in Wellesley
Design, build and program machines that have to do a specific job — then find out whether they do.
- Boston Parents Family Favorite seven years running
- Macaroni Kids Favorite 2025
- FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges Award
- State finalists, FLL & VEX
- STEM.org accredited
- CSTA & NGSS aligned
Clubs 2026–27 · iCode of WellesleyStarts Wed 23 Sep
Robotics — enroll now
- Dates
- September 2026 to June 2027
- Day & time
- Wednesdays, 3:30–4:30 pm
- Format
- One hour a week
- Ages
- 6–17
- Location
- 73 Central Street, Wellesley
$199 a month · second club $180 a month
Ten payments, September to June
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Our widest club by age, running from six-year-olds snapping LEGO mechanisms together to teenagers writing autonomous routines for VEX V5.
The appeal of robotics as a teaching subject is that it is honest. Code that is nearly right produces a robot that nearly works, in front of everybody, and there is no arguing with it. Students learn to test, observe and adjust because the machine gives them no other option.
Tracks
Students enter at the level that matches their experience and move up as they are ready.
- LEGO — building, mechanisms, first sequences (ages 6–9)
- VEX IQ — sensors, loops, conditions, robots that respond to the world
- Programming — autonomous routines and sensor logic
- Advanced and competition — FIRST LEGO League, VEX IQ, VEX V5 — award-winning
What students actually learn
- Mechanical design — gearing, structure, and why things break where they do
- Sensors and how a machine perceives anything at all
- Autonomous code and driver control
- Teamwork under a deadline, which is most of what a competition season teaches
- Iterative design: build, test, fail, change one thing, test again
A brief, as students receive it
Your robot has to find a wall, follow it, and stop when the wall ends. It cannot touch the wall. You may not hard-code the distances.
We give the requirements, not the steps. Working out how is the lesson — and the reason students can explain what they built when they get home.
The question parents actually ask
“My child has never built anything. Will they be lost?”
No. The LEGO track exists precisely for students who have never held a gear, and the age span is why we run four tracks rather than one room. Placement happens after a free evaluation, not from a form.
Where it leads
Robotics is the most direct route to our competition teams — FIRST LEGO League, VEX IQ and VEX V5, with a real season, a capped roster and tournaments. Tryouts are in September.
Questions
Do we buy a robot kit?
No. All kits, controllers and field elements are provided. Competition-team families sometimes choose to buy a practice kit for home, but that is optional and comes later.
How is this different from the competition teams?
The club is one hour a week and anyone can join. Competition teams are a capped roster, a full season and a much larger commitment. The club is where most team members start.
When do clubs run?
Clubs run September 2026 to June 2027, one hour a week. This club runs Wednesdays, 3:30–4:30 pm, at 73 Central Street, Wellesley. It starts Wednesday 23 September and runs to 30 June 2027.
What does it cost?
$199 a month, one hour a week, one topic. You pay for ten months, September to June — July and August are not billed, because clubs do not run then. Taking a second club at the same time? $180 a month for each extra one. Brothers and sisters get 5% off, and that comes off both prices. Materials are included. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Nothing renews on its own in September; every family chooses again each year.
How is a club different from the Belt Program?
A club is one hour a week, in a larger group, focused on one topic. The Belt Program is two hours a week across a ten-month year, in a group of about six, with a written progress report every month and a capstone project. AI Studio is one hour a week, self-paced, with the work tuned to your child by their instructor. Plenty of students do more than one.
What if we need to miss a week?
Tell us in advance and we will place your child in another group that week where the schedule allows. We run on school holidays too — a day off school is not a day off club. We are closed 24 December to 7 January.
Can we stop?
Yes. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Email wellesley107@icodeschool.com, or the Managing Director, Soundarya Ganesh, at soundarya.ganesh@icodeschool.com.
Where you’ll be
iCode of Wellesley · 73 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
781-291-3131
Five minutes from Wellesley Middle School and a short drive from Schofield, Bates, Hardy, Hunnewell and Upham. Street parking on Central Street, plus the Municipal Way lot behind the building for pickup.
Ready to start?
Book a free evaluation and we will tell you honestly which track your child belongs in — or enroll straight away.
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