News: Skylight won the Smoky Mountain Forge signature event tournament champion and advanced to the World Championship on October 10, 2026. This was Skylight’s first event in the 2026-2027 season. AeroDynamics won the Judge’s Award in the same event. It is AeroDynamics’ first ever V5 event in their robot career.
Explosive Lightbulbs won the Sportsmanship award in the HPE IQ event in North Carolina on October 3, 2026
Full Throttle advanced to VEX World Championship on September 27, 2026 at the Highlander Summit signature event
The AOE robotics team represents the United States in the parade of nations in the 2026 Vex World Championship
The club has a total of 13 teams being invited to either VEX Robotics World Championship or FTC World Championship in 2026. Team Full Throttle and team Skylight advanced to the Worlds in signature events, which is a great honor to the hard-working team members.
Seven teams were invited to the 2025 VEX V5 World Championship and one team was invited to the VEX AI World Championship.
Weestar is a non-profit organization focused on promoting STEM education among youth. Our mission is to ignite curiosity, foster creativity, and empower the next generation through STEM education. We are authorized to provide The President’s Volunteer Service Award to outstanding citizens (adults or youth) who contribute selflessly to STEM education in the club. We also offer SSL (Student Service Learning) hours to the youth if they volunteer in our programs.
We have year-round robotics club (AOE Robotics Club), chess club and computer programming club, summer camp and afterschool programs.
On September 27, 2024, the Parent Association organized an award ceremony to celebrate the achievement of the students who have volunteered in the year of 2024. Maryland delegate Lily Qi came to present gold, silver and bronze medal as well as the certificate bearing the president’s signature to the winners.
