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local VeX robotics competition held at lhs

More than 200 leading middle and high school VEX

Robotics students and mentors from around New York State united at the Liverpool High School Gymnasium on Feb. 4 for the Liverpool VEX Robotics Competition. The action-packed tournament featured 49 teams who competed with and against other schools in a series of back-to-back robot challenges.

Liverpool’s Arctic Warriors 174A team won the Think Award at the competition, qualifying them for the Event Region Championship.

The event was sponsored by Liverpool Central School District, REC Foundation, and The Liverpool Foundation for Education. Participants will compete for the championship title by strategically executing the game VEX Spin Up, driving robots they designed, built and programmed from the ground up using the VEX Robotics Design System.

The Liverpool VEX Robotics Competition is one of a series of VEX Robotics Competitions taking place internationally throughout the year. VEX Robotics is the world’s fastest growing competitive robotics program for ele - mentary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges around the world, with more than 7,300 teams from 26 countries that participate in more than 400 VEX Robotics Competition events worldwide. The competition season culminates each Spring, with the highly-anticipated VEX Robotics Competition World Championship event, uniting top qualifying teams from local, state and international VEX Robotics Competitions.

State championship-bound liverpool’s arctic Warriors robotics team earned six spots at the New york state VeX robotics Championship, held March 11 at the oncenter in syracuse, based on performance at local events Five high school teams qualified for the Northern New york state VrC spin up Championship and one middle school team qualified for the Northern New york state VeX iQ slapshot Championships advisors for the robotics Club include sarah Cerroni (hs), alex Parsons (Ms), scott Kraushaar (Ms) and Matt starke (hs�) For more information visit robotevents com