From campus amateur to world champion

As the summer vacation approaches, Wu Ruixing, 21, a junior from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), is busy planning his final undergraduate year. Besides preparing for the upcoming exams for graduate studies admission, Wu, as the leader of a VEX robotics world champion team, is also thinking about the team's future.

Founded in 2018, the SJTU VEX team has an enviable record in VEX Robotics Competitions at all levels, during which students in more than 20,000 teams from 50 countries are tasked with designing and building a robot to compete against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. For the 2022-2023 competition season, Wu led his team to win the world championship.

A total of 80 university teams from over 40 countries and regions attended the 2022-2023 VEX Robotics World Championship, which was held in Dallas, Texas, the United States, in April. During the ten-day competition, the student participants from SJTU won awards, including the EX U Robot Skills Challenge World Champion and the Design Division Champion.