
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!

15 October 2026
On Thursday 15 October, we welcomed parents, students and staff to the Great Hall for our Respectful Relationships Education community event, 'Growing Up in the Age of Algorithms'. The evening reflected the School’s commitment to partnering with families on some of the most significant issues facing young people today, creating space for informed discussion, shared learning and meaningful engagement around the challenges and opportunities of life in an increasingly connected digital world.

15 October 2026
Participants of the Knox Leader Development Program recently gathered in the Bryden Room to present their leadership projects and reflect on their development as leaders. It was an inspiring occasion, with staff sharing their vision and purpose, achievements and future goals, leadership journey, and key learnings gained through the process.

08 October 2026
Year 12 student Nathan represented Australia for the third time in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), travelling to Uzbekistan in Term 3 to compete with hundreds of students from dozens of countries across the globe.
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