December 24 - RoboRockets Dominate

Robots people, robots! As you all (or most of you know? I think?) JD has been a mentor for our elementary school robotics team for the last several years. This year Julia is a member of the team. Our school's team is called the RoboRockets and we have 4 teams, comprised of 6 students each. Four are builders (responsible for designing and building) and 2 are programmers (responsible for programming the robot). The school district competition was last weekend and although Julia was worried they weren't prepared....THEY DOMINATED!! There were 61 teams competing and this is how our kids fared:

*Team (paired with a random school, as a team you try to score as many points as possible, there are prelim rounds and final 'winner takes all finals"): FIRST, SECOND, THIRD and FOURTH!! Julia was on the team that came in first!!

*Skills (driver skills and autonomous programming): FIRST, THIRD, 5th and 6th!! Julia was on the team that came in first!

*Excellence (combination of all categories): our team didn't place in the top 4, we're all scratching our heads as to why since we won every other category

*Design (notebook plus robot design): FIRST!!

States are at the end of February.....Good luck RoboRockets!