By Zach Spicer
Jackson County Industrial Development Corp. is honored to support the VEX Robotics program in Jackson County and loves seeing the students, from elementary to high school, compete.
JCIDC understands the time and effort they put into robotics. The coaches put in a lot of time and effort, too.
With that in mind, JCIDC invited coaches to an end-of-year celebration April 29 to reflect on the successes of the 2025-26 season and look forward to 2026-27. JCIDC always starts a new school year with a coaches meeting, and now, this end-of-year celebration has been added. Coaches were asked to submit information and photos from the season to include in a slideshow presentation, and that was shared after attendees enjoyed pizza, chips, cookies and drinks.
This school year, Jackson County had 78 teams. At 1.67 teams per 1,000 people, that puts the county at No. 1 in the state. The next highest is Huntington County with 38 teams, or 1.03 teams per capita.
In terms of total number of teams, Marion County led the state with 377 (0.38 teams per capita), and Jackson County is No. 6.
In the county, there were programs at public and private elementary schools, middle schools and high schools, a homeschool program, the Boys & Girls Club of Seymour and 4-H.
