
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 November 2026
On Sunday 8 November, Knox hosted the NSW VEX Robotics State Championships in the Great Hall. More than 400 students making up 100-plus teams from schools across NSW competed in four divisions for a place at the Australian National Championships.

07 November 2026
After months of designing, testing, competing and refining, Knox Robotics students are preparing for the next major milestone in their VEX Robotics journey – the NSW State Championships.

01 November 2026
Over a hundred singers from the Knox Prep Vocal Ensemble, Senior School Choirs and the Knox Community Choir gathered at Sydney Town Hall for the Celebration Sing Out.
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