@KATHERINE_TOPPER hello! Per a conversation that we had before during the VEX Educators Conference, I wanted to put some resources here that I think you will find helpful.
You mentioned that your students were having some problems connecting to the V5 Brain and they have both iPads and Macbooks. Here are two articles about this. If you still have problems, please let me know so we can possibly address this with the software team.
- Configuring the V5 Brain for Coding over Bluetooth
- Connecting with Web-based VEXcode V5 - Mac
- Connecting the V5 Brain to a Computer via USB
You also had some questions about competition in Ecuador. You can check out the map at Robot Events. Here is the information for the point of contact there that you can reach out to directly, Karina will be able to provide more guidance about the competitions right now in Ecuador.
Team and Event Engagement Manager
Karina Garcia
Phone: (903) 513-2178
karina_garcia@roboticseducation.org
There are a couple other resources as well that I think can be helpful when working with V5:
- EXP STEM Labs (that can be done with V5 robots)
- Article on how to do EXP STEM Labs with V5 robots
- The classroom leaderboard (to be used for classroom competitions and STEM Labs)
There are also a ton of engineering resources. I’ll tag @Matthew_Goodwin here (our engineer) so he’s aware. He has a ton of support that is super helpful and I highly recommend asking him any question about engineering resources.
- He has this engineering tips and tricks thread in PD+ that is very helpful he constantly updates
- There are also a ton of V5 articles about mechanics
- There are a lot of build instructions already online for V5
- As well as posters with a list of all the parts (students can reference as they build)
Last item was you had a question about the Field Elements for this year’s game, that can be found here.
Please let me know if all this information is helpful, and I look forward to continuing our discussions! 
