001how about a big hand for the ranger world we kind of want to say in full transparency we were asked to give a demonstration by Dr feder line months ago we put this on the calendar and then this team was a little bit busy the past couple weekends so not this last weekend but the weekend before we threw the Red Hawks robotics Rumble which that was really important because we only had one team that was qualified for State at that point time and then Wall-E team Wall-E was able to earn their bid for State at the Red Hawks robotics Rumble the weekend before then both teams go off to state which hey guys we've been doing this for 10 years and there's been a lot of years we're just happy to get to State only
002one other time it is a it is a big deal just to get to State and these guys go and Wall-E wins a robot skills state championship team Ros wins the overall Excellence award which is basically the so all domains put together they were the overall state champion for elementary and they have earned a bid to the world's competition in dep don't see all of our coaches but we do want to say uh big congratulations to coach mat coach Scott and is Miss Bedford no here coach Bedford is not here we also have a couple they're going to introduce themselves we do have a couple teammates at other events who could not be here tonight so I want to recognize deck keaster uh Cooper Barnett Gabrielle Bedford and Katon gray and then the rest of
003you guys they're going to introduce themselves and kind of tell what their main job is on the team all right goad go I'm a motor my name is Jack SP my name is Ian montal I'm a coder and Driver my name's Atlas phy and I'm a driver my name is Evie heartbreak and I'm and I'm a loader my name is Xander B but with a z and I'm a driver my name is Jacob and I'm encoder my name is manga and I'm a loader my name is Evan blet and I'm a driver and coder you guys find I do want to say kind of as they're moving to their spots 10 years in the making there are a lot of folks here uh that should be thank that are not getting credit uh we have
004lots of teachers in our school that are running after school programs for these kiddos um we've got Early Childhood teachers that are basically teaching them coding in K1 so you don't just show up to fifth grade and become a state champion in robotics this starts in kindergarten and goes all the way through so there's all sorts of teachers at darnaby that take credit credit for basically grooming and raising them up through a pipeline so hats off rang here we go so before we get to understand what is it so we're going to give you a really quick video on Welcome to the 20242 VEX IQ robotics competition and this year's game rapid relay there are three ways to play in the VEX IQ robotics competition first two team teams will collaborate in 60-second Teamwork Challenge
005matches working together to maximize their score both teams will receive the same Points each of these teams consists of two drivers one robot and one loader One driver will operate the robot for the first half of the match the other driver will operate it for the second half and the loader will perform their task for the full 60 seconds second each team will have the opportunity to play driving skills challenge matches in these matches teams have 60 seconds of driving controled time to score as many points as possible third each team will also have the opportunity to play autonomous coding skills challenge matches in which they have 60 seconds of autonomous robot operation to score points no drivers allowed so that's just basically your three ways that of stck there's four big uh things you
006can win at State and that is um kind of a breakdown of how the tournaments go so the first one is Teamwork Challenge collaborate with other teams to understand what your Bot excels at work together to M maximize points and ensure you deliver on commitments like clearing a switch if you promise to do socializing with other students who have a passion about robotics so we wanted to give you our one of the teams final uh Matt so you kind of get EXC [Music] kind to give you a feel of what it is to be at a robotics tournament how large it is teamwork Alliance challenges will go and they'll find their partner who they're done they really get to tell them what's your Bot good at what's my bot good at how can we maximize
007the strengths of our box in order to score as many points as possible a lot of other sports you play against this one you play with your alliance partner is both there to score as many points as possible and in a Teamwork Challenge there are two winners so those two winners got the bid the other two bid for [Music] Worlds the final score this last at state was 48 was the winning thing team Wally scored 44 team RW scored 45 so we really are just a pass or two away Poss being the [Music] CH so so that's one part of the competition the mornings are and with state it was the night before where we got to do our autonomous scoring so I have my autonomous coding skills team here ready to go [Music] right
008showing off the coding skills you've developed since the beginning of the robotics pathway you begin at little bots in second grade little bot excel in third grade non competitive range robotics you use fun LED sensors to enhance your robots performance and increase your score we also have bumper [Music] sensors cing is always a the most complicated one because variables change from each competition board that you go to but I will also say that I looked at the middle school coding school coding score from St and there was actually only two teams in Middle School who outscored the coding scores on um Ranger robotics so it really is a [Applause] strength driving skills I like them because you get to troubleshoot problems in real time we had to fix a rubber band issue in our first
009tournament you get to overcome nerves and high stress environments spending half the year building than making modif modifications while you're driving adding improvements like a guard for lining lining lining it up so it's a guaranteed make every time and a starting platform so you can make it in that first shot every time [Music] ready and so during um driving skills and when you're doing teamwork challenges there's a one minute thing obviously my timer here but you have 30 seconds to drive after 30 seconds you have to change with your your driver um so 30 seconds for each driver to score as many points as possible switch so it really does its job to get as many people involved in the play as possible and I got to admit we had a after going to the
010rumble we saw a team be able to shoot two at the same time and we got to give mad props to atlas there who was really insistent on making it happen and in doing so we were able to let have the last two adjustments that allowed us to kind of guarantee our shots and honestly that is what got us to State at that point in time drivers so lastly I just kind of wanted to give you guys kind of a a visual of what it is to do so again at any Vex competition there are four big Awards to get there's a lot of little Awards too you have a Inspire award which we won the um at the rumble but our robot skills are based off of our coding and our driving skills with
011just our team on the board so that is what these guys team Wall-E won for there uh teamwork challenges again you'll have those two winners both people people who got points you're not fighting against each other you're fighting with so that there's two there's a judges award throughout this process we have to journal what the Engineering Process looks like so we are in charge of keeping an engineering notebook together and we get judged on a rubric at every competition to make sure the kids are the ones that this is they're very big on student Le um learning through this and then on top of it we have a a group of Judges that go around and interview each kids so this is real life skills here being able to teach the kids during our first
012thing they were like well the thingy and the thingy and I was like no guys you know what a drag train is you know what a catapult is so we worked on our interview skills and so in order to get this Excellence award they take you have to be in the top 40% here the top 40% here and you have to be towards the top on your engineering Notebook on interview to be able to get this so needless to say we were in tears cuz we did not expect to go um that but I was really super proud of that so and because the excellent award and the two teamw work shorts uh winners are our bids so our next step is V worlds down in Dallas so um there is literally we get to
013play up against the the CH Shanghai and Beijing were the biggest winners last year we get to play Canada w a bunch um so it's really fun to get to see the next level of what these Bots can do and and what they're doing all across the world so that's it [Applause] MERS are coming to we're g get right behind you guys we're tall so we're gonna get behind you [Music] [Laughter] perfect there we go all right gu say robot Rob all right [Applause]