SYCAMORE NEWS + NOTES VEX ROBOTICS TEAMS COMPETE AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The Sycamore 6th and 7th grade VEX robotics teams finished their season by competing in the VEX World Robotics Championships on April 29 -May 1 in Louisville, Kentucky. The 6th grade team finished in 80th place, while the 7th grade team finished 95th place in the event, which included 396 teams. Both groups set their season high scores in their Alliance and Teamwork runs that included working with teams from China, Finland, the United Kingdom, and 14 different states within the United States. Easily beating expectations, the 6th grade team finished 30th while the 7th grade team finished in 58th in the Alliance and Teamwork sections. All three of Sycamore’s VEX IQ robotics teams, earlier in the spring, competed with more than 300 teams in the Indiana State Robotics Championships at Lucas Oil Stadium. The 6th grade team scored a season high in both driving
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overall. The 7th grade team finished 13th
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overall in the Skills Challenge and narrowly
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missed the finals in Alliance by one point.
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The 5th grade team had a season-high
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and programming, finishing third in the state in the Skills Challenge. The team’s
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