TISD Robotics Team Wins Honors

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Courtesy of TISD

Texas Middle School SWAT (Students with Amazing Talents) Robotics Teams earned First & Second Place finishes.

It happened during the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Region 8 Robotics Challenge on January 17 in Pittsburg, TX. A total of 90 teams from the area participated.
The Inventions competition allows students to use the engineering design process to create a product using robots that solve a world problem. Students must document the process in an engineering notebook, market it by creating various materials (websites, brochures, business cards, prototypes) and then present their
sales pitch to a panel of judges.

Earning First Place was the team of Truth Dukes, Lauren Friday, Diana Hernandez & Ryan Kate Walker. Second Place Team was Adam McCarter, Ean Sharp, Daniel Song & Brett Sparks.

Other Texas Middle School Robotics Teams competing were in the Intermediate and Advanced Arena. This competition has students address a prescribed problem and then program their robot to compete accordingly. Team finishes in Intermediate Arena were: Worth McMillen, Aidyn White, Griffin White & Sanders Wiggins – 5th Place; Lili LeFors and Lillie Orgeron – 7th Place; Will Prewitt, Kason Orgeron & Gavin Smith – 24th Place. For Advanced Arena, team placement finishes were: Uriel Camacho, Christian Douglas & Jonathan Torres-Quick – 12th Place; Jared Chavez, Duncan McGhee & Riley Roberts – 17th Place; Coy Ward & Jadyn Weinstein – 26th Place.

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