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Juniors Compete in the VEX Robotics Tournament
EHS Robotics had their inaugural run on Sunday, Feb. 7, in the VEX Robotics Nothing But Net Fairfax Regional Qualifier. Four students from EHS competed in the VEX robotics tournament, an annual event in which teams build innovative robots designed to score the most points possible in qualification matches, elimination matches, and skills challenges. Juniors Miki Grzywacz, Jerry Kuo, Jack Streed, and Caelen Wang spent over 50 hours of their weekend free time building and testing their competition bot. According to Kim Olsen, chair of the science department and one of the team’s supervisors, “the team placed into the top bracket of elimination rounds and made it into the quarterfinals of the tournament. This was a wonderful first outing for the team, and their performance was a testament to all of their hard work.”
Dr. Olsen continued “I'm so proud of the efforts of our first VEX robotics team. All four of the students worked on their own time to design, build, and test their robot. The team learned much at this tournament and networked with fellow competitors from the region, and their success at their first meet ever was truly remarkable. We look forward to continuing the progress into next year with an expanded group of students.”
The team would also like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Streed for their support and for supervising all of their practice hours.
Video of the Qualifying Round:
During the qualifying rounds a pair of bots compete against each other. Often, one bot will stay stationary (a shooting bot) and another will act as a collecting / sweeping bot. EHS was acting as the mobile bot in this round.
