Congratulations to all south Lake County students who participated in the VEX Robotics local competitions this year. Great Job!
The VEX Robotics Competition is the largest and fastest growing worldwide robotics program.
During the school year, teams participate in competitions, which include practice rounds, skills challenges with their custom-built robots, and qualifying rounds and finals. It’s all about teamwork challenges to attain the highest score possible by stacking colored Hubs in Building Zones, removing Bonus Hubs from the Hanging Structure, and by Parking or Hanging on the Hanging Bar.
“This year there are 24 south Lake teams competing in one of the two Vex Robotics State Championship events either in Miami this past weekend or in Tampa this coming weekend, Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 12”, said a proud Ashley Phipps, STEM, PLTW, and Robotics Teacher at Pinecrest Lakes Academy.
The following local schools are represented in the Championships: Grassy Lake Elementary, Cypress Ridge Elementary, Minneola Elementary Charter School, Pinecrest Lakes Academy, Sawgrass Bay Elementary, Windy Hill Middle School, East Ridge Middle School, and Montverde Academy.
Windy Hill Middle School Robotics team is one of the schools traveling to Tampa this Saturday to participate in the State Finals. Nerds on Site “Entreprenerds” is sponsoring the team and will parade to the Championships in their signature VW Nerdmobiles to cheer on the team. “We are so very excited to back these “Nerds of Tomorrow” who have worked diligently together and have come so far in the robotics competition circuit under the direction of their coach Mr. Govocek”, said Debbie Stewart of Nerds on Site.
This season the Windy Hill Middle School (WHMS) team, consisting of Moriah Langford, Ethan Loden, Derek Romaguera, Jonathan Everett and Mattias Peroni, have consistently placed tops in teamwork skills throughout the VEX IQ local competition season. Currently, they stand at 2nd place in the state of Florida and 31st in the world for robot skills. The team also holds a truckload of awards, 5 Teamwork Awards, 3 Excellence Awards, 5 Skills Awards, 1 Think Award, and 2 Build Awards just from the 2018-19 season alone.
The WHMS Cyberwolves are heading to Tampa to compete at the State VEX IQ Tournament this Saturday. The team is keeping its focus set on their biggest challenge yet, Earning a ticket to the VEX Robotics World Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. This competitive team of 8th graders anticipates their years together building and programming robots will bring them success at their biggest competition of the year as they close out their time at Windy Hill Middle School.
Wishing all our local school Robotic teams success at State and beyond.
See a segment of a Robotic Competition
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Pictured below are some of the schools participating in this year’s competitions
