Silver Owl Robotics Dominates iDESIGN Central Toronto VEX Robotics Competition with Triple Award Sweep

Kian Kowsari
24 February 2026
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Silver Owl Robotics Dominates iDESIGN Central Toronto VEX Robotics Competition with Triple Award Sweep

Silver Owl Robotics teams 3150X and 3150Z claim Tournament Champion, Think Award, Robot Skills Champion, and Inspire Award at one of Ontario's most competitive VEX V5RC Push Back tournaments of the 2025–26 season.

On January 31, 2026, over 40 of Ontario’s top VEX Robotics teams gathered at St. Michaels College School — right in the heart of the Greater Toronto Area — for the iDESIGN Central Toronto VEX V5 Robotics Competition. The event drew a full field of the region’s most skilled competitors for a full day of high-stakes Push Back matches, judged awards, and robot skills challenges. When the dust settled, Silver Owl Robotics had swept nearly every major award on the table.

Tournament Results: Silver Owl Robotics Takes the Top

Tournament Champion: Team 3150X

In a field of over 40 teams competing across qualification matches and elimination rounds, Silver Owl team 3150X emerged as the Tournament Champion.

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Think Award — Team 3150X

The Think Award recognizes the team that best exemplifies a systematic approach to software design and autonomous programming. In VEX Push Back — a game where the autonomous period can swing a match with 10 bonus points — elite autonomous coding is a difference-maker.

Robot Skills Champion — Team 3150X

Robot Skills is the individual time trial of VEX Robotics — there's no alliance to lean on, just your robot, your driver, and your autonomous program against the field. Topping the Robot Skills leaderboard in a 40+ team tournament is one of the purest demonstrations of a team's all-around ability.

3150X's Robot Skills Championship rounds out what is genuinely one of the most complete individual performances possible at a VEX tournament: championship title, a judged award, and skills champion — all in one day.

What This Means for Silver Owl Robotics

Silver Owl Robotics — based out of Richmond Hill, Ontario at 50 East Wilmot St Unit 103 — is a three-time consecutive Ontario VEX Provincial Champion (2022, 2023, 2024) and 2024 VEX Worlds Innovate Division Champion. Results like these at the iDESIGN tournament aren't a surprise; they're a continuation of a program built on systematic excellence.

But beyond the trophies, what excites us most is the growth we see in our students. Both 3150X and 3150Z are made up of young engineers — students in grades 3–12 — who came to Silver Owl, learned the fundamentals from scratch, and have now developed into some of the most well-rounded competitors in the province.

That's what the Silver Owl Framework is built to do.

About the iDESIGN Central Toronto Competition

The iDESIGN Central Toronto VEX V5RC event is one of Ontario's premier open tournament events for the 2025–26 Push Back season. With a capacity of 45 teams, Smart Field Control, and full judging, it offers a true championship-level competitive environment. The event was held at Metro International Secondary Academy, conveniently located near Steeles and Leslie in Thornhill — one of the GTA's most accessible venues for teams across York Region, Toronto, and beyond.

The 2025–26 VEX game, Push Back, challenges teams to score Blocks in Goals, control field zones, and park their robots before the match ends — with a 10-point autonomous bonus up for grabs at the start of every match. It's a game that rewards both technical precision and real-time strategy.