Rockwood High School Robotics Teams, Students Advance to Regionals, Earn Awards at League Tournament

At the STL Mid League Tournament on Jan. 19 at Lafayette High, one Rockwood robotics team and two teams including Rockwood students advanced to the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Missouri Kansas Championship.

In addition, three Rockwood robotics teams and three teams including Rockwood students advanced to a Super Qualifier for another opportunity to qualify for states, and another Rockwood team earned an award at the Mid League tournament.

X Bots, a team composed of Lafayette and Marquette students, earned the first place Inspire Award and secured the most advancement points (104) in the region. The Inspire Award is given to the team that best embodies the overall challenge of the FTC program, across robot design and performance, creativity, innovation, team attributes and being a strong ambassador for FIRST programs overall and, a role model FIRST team and a gracious competitor on and off the field.

X Bots, the Eureka High Mesons and Force Green – which includes students from Lafayette, Marquette and Crestview and Rockwood Valley middle schools – all advanced to the state round. Three Marquette teams – the Luxons, Gluons and Baryons – and three community teams that include Rockwood students – Action Robotix, Verge and Autobotz – advanced to a Super Qualifier round Feb. 21 at Bayless High for another chance to qualify for states. The Eureka Bosons also earned the Think Award at the Mid League tournament.

In addition, six Lafayette and Marquette students earned Dean's List Semifinalist recognition for being exemplary student leaders and ambassadors for STEM and FIRST, and Lafayette science teachers and robotics coaches Shannon Campbell and Frank Consolino earned the Volunteer Award at the tournament.

Congratulations to these outstanding Rockwood robotics teams, students and teachers! Read below for more information about their accomplishments.

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X Bots

Awards: Inspire Award (advanced to Missouri Kansas Championship)

Rockwood Team Members: Swetha Annadori (Marquette), Nathan Bairu (Lafayette), Mihika Biju (Marquette), Shreyansh Reddy Guduru (Marquette), Leo Hwang (Lafayette), Ahnaf Rahman (Lafayette), Isha Rangineni (Lafayette), Vishi Rangineni (Lafayette), Abhinav Rao (Lafayette), Suchir Ryali (Lafayette), Alifiya Shakeel (Lafayette), Adithya Sreeperunbuduru (Marquette), Aditi Sriram (Marquette), Aaric Taneja (Lafayette) and Connor Wood (Lafayette)

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Force Green

Awards: Inspire Award 2nd Place; Finalist Alliance – 1st Team Selected (advanced to Missouri Kansas Championship)

Rockwood Team Members: Nitya Bollam (Marquette), Daniel Carrillo (Lafayette), Ayden Church (Marquette), Satvik Das (Marquette), Aileen Kaur (Crestview), Akshaj Kommepalli (Marquette), Ryan Palmquist (Rockwood Valley), Anshu Rajoli (Marquette), Sebastian Sauer (Rockwood Valley) and Adith Vipin (Marquette)

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Eureka Mesons

Awards: Winning Alliance Captain; Innovate Award (advanced to Missouri Kansas Championship)

Team Members: Keegan Allen, Drake Autry, Adam Niehoff, Retief Olivier, Adelyn Self, Emmett Self, Logan Sept, Fabian Shipp and Liam Wright

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Marquette Luxons

Awards: Inspire Award 3rd Place (advanced to Super Qualifier)

Team Members: Pratik Bhattiprolu, Vedant Chaturvedi, Adithya Chengalvala, Srihan Dande, Shreyas Iyer, Alex Jones, Vidyuth Kamesh, Ethan Li, Jonathan Li, Deleena Mehrotra, Sresht Matolli, Rahul Modugu, Samai Moola, Ishaan Palanati, Mihir Patel, Ishita Shah, Tvisha Singh, Sowmyan Sridhar, Akhil Valivarthi and William Zhang

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Marquette Gluons

Awards: Winning Alliance – 1st Team Selected; Control Award 2nd Place (advanced to Super Qualifier)

Team Members: Daksh Bansal, Alfred Binoy, Ishaan Brahmbhatt, Bhoopesh Dhanasekaran, Natalie Grill, Rishi Gudimalla, Krithyaa Karunakaran, Piper Little, Vihaan Madhavan, Ashwin Premkumar, Siddharth Sawant, Vihaan Sawardekar, Aryan Singh, Aaryan Srivastava, Keerthi Thota and Charlie Wang

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Marquette Baryons

Awards: Finalist Alliance Captain; Connect Award (advanced to Super Qualifier)

Team Members: Rama Arte, Amrita Gottumukkala, Naveen Jaiganesh, Suprathik Reddy Kanikala, Ridhima Khullar, Ashley Law, Wangshu Liu, Dominic Lund, Amanda Moi, Abhijith Nair, Anish Saravanan, Harsh Sodavadiya, Zixu Wu and Brendan Yn

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Action Robotix

Awards: Sustain Award (advanced to Super Qualifier)

Rockwood Team Members: Mihir Choudhary (Marquette), Adi Ganesh (Lafayette), Sree Charan Katabathuni (Marquette), Ashvik Kothari (Lafayette), Arnav Madhavan (Lafayette), Vihaan Punjabi (Lafayette), Ayush Rausaria (Marquette), Naisha Salaria (Marquette), Devansh Sharma (Marquette), Nikhil Sharma (Lafayette) and Ishaan Vitthala (Marquette)

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Verge

Awards: Control Award (advanced to Super Qualifier)

Rockwood Team Members (all Lafayette, unless noted): Abhi Boga, Rohan Gopalan, Harsha Konakandla (Wildwood Middle), Pardhu Konakandla, Sai Kondamadugula (Marquette), Keerthi Maddineni (Crestview), Vivek Maddineni, Anvika Malugu (Crestview), Hritika Malugu, Sachit Prakash, Ahan Singh, Arvind Sunilkumar, Adit Swami and Pranav Visveswaran

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Autobotz

Awards: Design Award (advanced to Super Qualifier)

Rockwood Team Members (all Crestview, unless noted): Rajan (Marquette), Sribalaji, Vivaan (Wildwood), Aditi, Sonu, Disha, Nitara, Kabir (Marquette), Rudhvi, Aryan (Marquette) and Nikhilesh (Marquette)

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Eureka Bosons

Awards: Think Award

Team Members: Broady Baan, Edmond Chen, Sam D’Aquila, Joseph Evans, George Keller, Sam Keller, Brendan Lucas, Lucas Obermark, Isaac Robins, Niru Sethu and Josh Wu

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Dean’s List Semifinalists

• Nitya Bollam, Force Green (Marquette)
• Adi Ganesh, Action Robotix (Lafayette)
• Akshaj Kommepalli, Force Green (Marquette)
• Ashvik Kothari, Action Robotix (Lafayette)
• Abhinav Rao, X Bots (Lafayette)
• Aditi Sriram, X Bots (Marquette)

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Volunteer Award

Shannon Campbell and Frank Consolino, Lafayette