A team of three Shattuck Middle School students recently placed fourth at the Wisconsin State VEX IQ Robotics Tournament and became the first middle school group from Neenah to qualify for the VEX Robotics World Championship April 28-30 in Louisville, Ky.
The team of Bailey Schmeichel, Milo Runnerstrom, and Ryan Leeser earned the invitation to the World Championship based on their state tournament finish. They were one of five Shattuck teams coached by Brian Schalliol competing at the state meet March 3 in Milwaukee.
Additionally, three high school teams competed at the state meet. One Neenah team reached the quarterfinal round. Team members were Will Foucault, Blake Merfeld, Tyler Vondracek, Gage Valeri and Nathan Bezier.
Robotic skills is a combination of students driving the robot on the competition field to score the most amount of points and the score of an autonomous program that they created to have the robot move the hubs on the competition field into the scoring zone without a human driver.
VEX IQ Challenge Next Level is played on a 4’x8’ rectangular field. Two robots compete in the Teamwork Challenge as an alliance in 60 second-long teamwork matches, working collaboratively to score points. Teams also compete in the Robot Skills Challenge where one robot takes the field to score as many points as possible. These matches consist of Driving Skills Matches, which will be entirely driver controlled, and Programming Skills Matches, which will be autonomous with limited human interaction.
The team will be fundraising for its trip to Louisville and has set up a GoFundMe Page. Those interested in helping them with their expenses can donate here:
https://www.gofundme.com/shattuck-rocket-robotic-club
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