Robotics Club
Woodridge Hosted the First Western Washington VEX IQ State Championship
On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Woodridge PTSA partnered with Robot Innovators of Tomorrow, a Washington non-profit organization, and Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, a US-registered 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, and hosted the first Western Washington VEX IQ State Championship competition at Woodridge Elementary School.
Seven Woodridge Robotics Club teams and one Woodridge first grade team competed in the event. The main competition event, teamwork challenge, pits two alliances (made up of two teams and their robots) against one another in a 12-foot by 12-foot grid. The programming skills part of the competition is autonomous. Team members program the robots to move around the field without assistance. In the robot skills challenge, one team tries to score as many points as possible with one robot. The final segment of the event is the judges’ interview, where each team presents their robot, explains each aspect of its design and programming, and answers a series of follow-up questions from the judges.
Five of the seven Woodridge teams, including the Woodridge Tinies (consisting of students from Mrs. McLaughlin’s first grade class - Arnov, Ashton, Nathan, Sasha and Thomas), made it to the finals match where the top ten teams competed for one spot at the VEX Robotics World Championship in Anaheim, CA. Even though the world spot was ultimately awarded to group of middle school students from the Bellevue Prism program, our students performed impressively in their first go-round after only two months of participating in the robotics program.
The Tinies even received an honorable mention Judges’ Award for wowing the judges with their presentation skills, knowledge of their robot and their “cuteness.”
Woodridge Hosted the First Western Washington VEX IQ State Championship
On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Woodridge PTSA partnered with Robot Innovators of Tomorrow, a Washington non-profit organization, and Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, a US-registered 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, and hosted the first Western Washington VEX IQ State Championship competition at Woodridge Elementary School.
Seven Woodridge Robotics Club teams and one Woodridge first grade team competed in the event. The main competition event, teamwork challenge, pits two alliances (made up of two teams and their robots) against one another in a 12-foot by 12-foot grid. The programming skills part of the competition is autonomous. Team members program the robots to move around the field without assistance. In the robot skills challenge, one team tries to score as many points as possible with one robot. The final segment of the event is the judges’ interview, where each team presents their robot, explains each aspect of its design and programming, and answers a series of follow-up questions from the judges.
Five of the seven Woodridge teams, including the Woodridge Tinies (consisting of students from Mrs. McLaughlin’s first grade class - Arnov, Ashton, Nathan, Sasha and Thomas), made it to the finals match where the top ten teams competed for one spot at the VEX Robotics World Championship in Anaheim, CA. Even though the world spot was ultimately awarded to group of middle school students from the Bellevue Prism program, our students performed impressively in their first go-round after only two months of participating in the robotics program.
The Tinies even received an honorable mention Judges’ Award for wowing the judges with their presentation skills, knowledge of their robot and their “cuteness.”
