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Hello, and welcome back to the VEX Classroom. My name is Aimee. In this video, I'm going to walk you through everything that's in the VEX EXP Classroom Bundle. I'll let you know what's included in the bundle and why we've included it, so that when you get yours, you'll be ready to hit the ground running and start teaching VEX EXP in your classroom right away.

In this video, I'm going to focus on the Small Classroom Bundle, but we also offer regular and large size bundles. If you want to know how much is in the regular bundle, you would double the amount of the small, and for the large bundle, you would triple it.

First of all, in your Small Classroom Bundle, you're going to get five education kits. An education kit consists of two of these red bins. Each kit has a structure bin, which contains all the metal structural parts, screws, and small jewel cases full of parts. You'll also get an electronic bin that has the battery, the brain, the motors, and things of that nature. So, you'll get 10 total red plastic bins, making five kits.

You will also get this red carrying case here. It's a soft carrying case with handles and a very convenient little plastic pocket that you can use to label things, so they don't get disorganized in your classroom. I'm going to unzip it for you to show you that inside this kit, or this bag, you're going to get your field tiles, field walls, and game objects, which we'll talk about later. You'll also get things like your chargers and USB cables. There's a convenient zipper pocket in here as well to put things in.

Next, I want to show you a top-down view of these education kits so that you can see how easy it is to stay organized with these. You can see here that these kits are very well organized. There is a place for everything. You'll be able to give the responsibility of keeping these kits organized to your students. If they have any trouble knowing where a piece goes, you can simply direct them to look underneath each piece because it is labeled with a picture, making it really easy and convenient to put them away.

I do want to mention that in this structure bin, all the metal parts will come in a separate bag that you will need to put in here when you get your kit. I also suggest that you label your kits so that they are paired together. This way, one structure bin and one electronics bin have the same number, making it easy to tell what goes where and who's keeping track of their pieces, thus simplifying your classroom organization.

I also want to point out all of these jewel cases here. The jewel cases are really organized with all of the little parts, which could be difficult to organize, but they're in here together. You've got all of your nuts and washers in here. We also give you a kit of six extra jewel cases with extra parts in them, so you're going to get an extra set of these.

It makes a lot of sense to think ahead about how you might wish to organize these in your classroom. One thing you might want to do is keep your extra parts separate so that when you need extra parts or kids are finding that things are starting to go missing—because, of course, they will—the little tiny parts are going to get dropped sometimes, and you'll need that reserve of extra parts. Maybe just set them aside so that you have them when you need them. You could assign a student to be responsible for those extra parts.

You also might reserve those extra parts to be what you use when you are making modifications to the field. So, if you're changing something about the structure of the field, you have parts in reserve ready to go for that purpose.

Thank you for watching this video. I hope it helps you get started with your VEX EXP Classroom Bundle. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Happy teaching!

So as I mentioned in your red carrying case, you're going to have your field tiles and your field walls. You're also going to have your game objects. In VEX EXP, you're going to get 18 game objects. You're going to get buckyballs, with 12 buckyballs in total: six blue and six red. You're also going to get six rings, two of each color: green, red, and blue. These are great because they give you more than one type of object to manipulate with your robot. Obviously, the way that you would interact with a robot's claw or other type of manipulator and a ring is going to be very different than the way you would interact with a buckyball. So you've got two different types of game objects to challenge your students with here.

You're also going to get chargers that can charge five robot brains at the same time. This means you can plug in all five at a time into one outlet. You've got multiple USB ports here. You're going to get extra cords as well. I recommend putting your extras with the chargers and using those to plug them in, then keeping the ones in the kit handy for connecting to VEXcode EXP. You're also going to get five extra tools, which I'm going to use in just a minute. We talked about the jewel cases a bit, and I'll go back to that in a second, but I want to give you a closer look at the field, tiles, and walls.

Here you can see two EXP field tiles. They have holes in the top that you can use with screws to attach pieces. I'm going to show you how to do that in one second, but they easily snap together like this, with the walls up like this, and you can arrange them into a number of different layouts to use with different STEM labs that are included in our curriculum. Or maybe you're going to invent something on your own. It's easy to snap them together and take them apart.

I wanted to give you a closer view of the back of an EXP tile. You can see these small hexagons here because they have a really important purpose. I'm not sure if you can see, but I already have a screw put through here with one of the low-profile nuts in one of the hexagons. They actually just fit right inside there. You can just drop it right in and then take a screw and stick it through there after holding it with my finger. I flipped it over, but I'm actually putting the screw right through this low-profile nut, and it will keep it in there safe and secure. You can give it a little tighten with the tool if you want to, but it is in there, and they're not going anywhere. That is the purpose of these hexagons on the backs of the field tiles.

Another quick trick I wanted to show you is that if you have a game where you might need to use a raised field, you can actually use these walls and some screws. If you don't want them to get away from you, you can drop them right into these holes and then fit them right down into. If you can see, I'm putting them in the holes right here on the top of this wall, and you can just fit them right down in there to create a raised field. You can see there that this would hold up the field if you were playing a game where you needed your field to not have walls, but instead be more of a platform.

I hope this video walking you through what comes in an EXP Classroom Bundle is helpful to you. If you have any questions or comments, please post them in our professional learning community. We'd be happy to answer them and chat with you about them. Also, you can check out our "Getting Started with VEX EXP Classroom Bundle" article, which is in our VEX library. I will pop the link down below, and I hope to see you back here soon in the VEX Classroom.

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