ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — Aryavardhan Purohit Singh, a young Indo-Canadian student from West Vancouver, British Columbia, is being celebrated internationally after becoming part of the first Canadian middle school team to win the prestigious VEX Robotics World Championship in St. Louis, Missouri.
Competing against more than 32,000 teams from over 50 countries, Team 10012Y ultimately rose to the top in one of the most elite and demanding student robotics competitions in the world, marking a historic milestone for Canadian robotics on the global stage.
Known to friends and family as Avi, Aryavardhan competed alongside teammates Max Gao, Ricky Chen, and Marcus Ip as part of Team 10012Y, capturing the VEX V5 Middle School World Championship title on April 27. The historic victory has sparked pride across both Canadian and Indian communities, highlighting young Indo-Canadian excellence in STEM, engineering, and innovation.
The team’s success was built over months of intense preparation, with continuous design upgrades, coding improvements, and strategy refinement. Throughout the season, they competed in and won numerous qualifying matches and tournaments, steadily earning their place among the world’s top-ranked teams.
At the St. Louis championship, after competing further and winning several matches against strong international teams, they defeated multiple top contenders to reach the finals.
This year’s 2025–26 VEX V5 game, “Push Back,” challenged teams to design, build, and program advanced robots capable of autonomous coding, precision driving, strategy, and rapid real-time decision-making under intense pressure.
The team impressed judges and audiences throughout the championship with their innovation, technical brilliance, teamwork, and composure, ultimately securing the world title for Canada, while also standing as a proud symbol of Indo-Canadian and Indian talent making an impact on the global STEM stage.
