Two Frazer School elementary teams and five middle school teams have earned spots in the VEX Robotics World Championship following successful showings at the regional championship.
According to a Frazer School release, 125 of the best elementary and middle school VEX IQ Robotics teams competed in the regional competition, which took place Feb. 28 to March 1. The Frazer School had three elementary teams, and 13 middle school teams represented in the regional event.
In the elementary division on Feb. 28, 67th ICAO Regiment (Charles Coville, Owen Eldred, Ian Jung and Aayan Patel) placed second in the Teamwork Finals. Additionally, the Dippin’ Bots (Yigi Song, Henry Tang, Jayden Wu and Austin Yang) ranked fourth in skills and qualifications and won the Design Award (second place). Both teams have earned the chance to compete in the world championship, having claimed two of the 10 qualifying awards.
In the middle school division on March 1, The Frazer School earned five of the eight world championship qualifying spots. Team Uprising (Glenn Jang, Kyle Kellogg and Maverick Snead) and Demolition (Alexis Eldred, Christopher Lee, Brayden Wagner, Albert Zeng) ranked fourth and fifth in skills, claiming two of the qualifying spots through double elimination.
Team Y won the Amaze Award, while RN (Jerry Chu, Darren Huang, Saam Khanal and Shengsheng Yang) captured the Think Award “for their strong autonomous programming” and placed fifth in the finals, according to the release.
Taking the Design Award for the middle school category was InnoTech (Mia Gao, Abby Guo, Haena Kim, Riya Sood and Evie Yu).
Team Quasar (Vivek Kolli, Nivedh Naik, Vincent Wen) took the spotlight at the regional competition, having ranked No. 1 in qualifications throughout the entire event.
Quasar also earned the “triple crown” achievement, which the release said is made up of the three highest awards in each category. The team won the Excellence Award (first place), the Teamwork Champion Award and the Robot Skills Champion Award.
“I am incredibly proud of all the accomplishments of our team this season,” Frazer School robotics coach Steve Yu said in the release. “These students have put in the time, effort, and determination to achieve their highest potential. It is satisfying to know they will carry the skills they have developed in this program throughout their educational career.”