AUGUS T 1 9 - 2 3 , 2 02 0 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 Pre-College Initiative Conference - PCI VEX IQ Students in the VEX IQ Challenge team up to design and build a robot to play with other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. VEX ROBOTICS Teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. FEATURED EVENTS 2D VIDEO GAME DESIGN AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Game design is a 21st century skillset that goes beyond making video games, as it leads to pathways in architecture, aerospace, building information modeling (BIM), engineering, healthcare and fintech (financial technology). ROBOTICS FIRST LEGO LEAGUE AND ROBOCO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND 2021 SEASON PREPARATION The software and workshop is a professional development opportunity that will help all NSBE FLL and FLL Jr. teams grow, as virtualization/visualization is the design phase that happens before the build. Teams will be able to develop their robot performances before the physical build and competitions. 34 * NSBE MAGAZINE * CONVENTION 2020 www.nsbe.orghttp://www.nsbe.org