Two Frazer School teams advanced to the division finals at the VEX World Robotics Championships on May 6-14 in Dallas.

The competition, held at Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, featured the two teams from the Gainesville school as they competed against more than 400 teams from around the world.

The Top Dogs (Nicholas Chronley, Miles Snead, and Maverick Snead) and Quasar (Vivek Kolli, Hannah Lu, Nivedh Naik, Vincent Wen) earned their bid to the championship round after placing first in Teamwork in the North Florida region earlier this spring.

Teams had one year to build a robot and strategy to conquer a game designed by VEX Robotics, where points are earned through speed, agility and teamwork between robots. More than 15,000 teams brought robots to competitions in 50 countries in 2025.

In Dallas, the top teams worked with randomly paired alliance partners (often using translators) to merge strategies and achieve maximum points in 12 60-second matches.

At the end of qualification matches, which included alliances with students from Oman, Mexico, Taiwan, China and the U.K., the Top Dogs were ranked fifth in their division of 84 teams and went on to win third place in the division finals. The team ranked in the top 15 in the world for the 2024-25 season.

Quasar, playing in a different division, ranked eighth at the end of their matches out of 84 teams and finished ninth in the division finals. The team ranked in the top 40 in the world for the 2024-25 season.