(Pictured) CHAMPIONS: From left, MVTHS Robotics team 41870A students Gabe Luttenin, Cassie White & Weston Riggan. The other 2 students are their Champion Alliance mates from team 20612A, Blazin' Bots of Bloom Trail High School in Chicago Heights IL. They won the VEX Robotics Tournament, Saturday, at Millikin University in Decatur IL, with their entry, a robot they've named "Da Baby"!
Not only did these 3 students take the Championship, but their creation scored more points in the Programming Skills Challenge than all of the other 20 teams COMBINED! This is a challenge, additional to the tournament, where a team's bot earns points performing, on its own, as many scoring tasks as possible within 1 minute. They also had the highest score in the Driving Skills Challenge, which is the other additional challenge where students control their bot directly to perform those same tasks.
On top of all that, the competition judges awarded the 3 their most prestigious award of the event, The Excellence Award! This award goes only to the team demonstrating extraordinary levels of excellence in teamwork, team organization, robot design, design documentation, design implementation, problem solving, fabrication, inter-colleague communication, presentation, and professionalism.
With this accomplishment, they now move on to compete at the State level on March 11th, also to be held at Millikin.
These 3 students worked tirelessly, as well as smartly, to achieve this rare level of success and deserve many accolades!
GREAT JOB GUYS!