Two Marquette High robotics teams and four other robotics teams featuring Rockwood students have advanced to the First Tech Challenge (FTC) Missouri Kansas Championship, which will be held Saturday, March 5, at Missouri S&T University in Rolla.
The Marquette Baryons and Luxons, as well as the X-Bots – consisting of students from six different Rockwood middle and high schools – Brute Force -- consisting of students from five different Rockwood middle and high schools -- and ForceGreen -- consisting of students from all four Rockwood high schools -- advanced at the FTC Missouri St. Louis Mid-League Tournament held at Rockwood Valley Middle on Feb. 19. The P3 robotics team, featuring two Rockwood Summit High students, advanced at the St. Louis South League Tournament on Feb. 12.
As the captain of the winning alliance, the X-Bots and their alliance members (including Brute Force) were event champions at the Feb. 19 qualifier.
The Baryons, Luxons, P3, X-Bots, Brute Force and ForceGreen are among the 36 teams that will compete in Rolla to qualify for the World Championships in Houston, Texas, in April.
For results from the Feb. 19 qualifier, visit this link. For results from the Feb. 12 qualifier, visit this link.
Here is some more information about these outstanding Rockwood teams and students.
X-Bots
Team Members: Ankita Ramachandran, Avani Joshi (Lafayette High), Harini Annadorai (Marquette), Suchir Ryali (Crestview Middle), Ahnaf Rahman, Vishwajit Rangineni, Noah Johnson (Rockwood Valley Middle), Shwetha Annadorai, Aditi Sriram (Selvidge Middle), Aditi Roy, Alifiya Shakeel and Abhinav Rao (Wildwood Middle)
Awards Won: Captain of the Winning Alliance (Event Champions), Motivate Award, Inspire Award Third Place. Harini was also named a Dean’s List semifinalist, exemplifying her leadership and dedication to FIRST and showcasing the team’s spirit.
P3
Rockwood Team Members: Gracie Steinmeyer and Mira Iyer (Rockwood Summit)
Awards Won: Think Award, Inspire Award Second Place, Finalist Alliance and second-place rank in Robot Scoring. Mira and Gracie were also named Dean’s List semifinalists and will find out March 5 if they will advance as Dean’s List finalists.
Marquette Baryons
Awards Won: Design Award and Inspire Award Second Place
Marquette Luxons
Team Members: Emily Lory, Srushti Bhoyar, Sameer Iyer, Samir Faruq, Adi Bhargava, Jacob Mathew, Andrew Wang, Trevor Davis, Deshaun Weerasekera, Anika Joglekar, Joshua Li, Yoon Jae Chang, Devaang Nair, Manasvi Gottipati, Lisha Maganti, Sri Krishnan and Arush Singh
Award Won: Think Award
Brute Force
Rockwood Team Members: Rishi Madhavan (Lafayette), Tejas Arun (Marquette), Vedanth Chimakurthy (Crestview), Krish Roy, Pranav Visveswaran (Rockwood Valley) and Avyukth Raghuraman (Wildwood)
Awards Won: Connect Award, Winning Alliance (First Team Selected)
ForceGreen
Rockwood Team Members: Darren Hwang, Leena Wheeler, Megan Liu, Samantha Zhang, Joey Marchand, Supreet Aradhya, Taha Shakeel, Aly Palmquist (Lafayette), Shravya Sunkugari, Sahra Shah (Marquette), Peter Himstedt (Eureka) and Tejus Krishnan (Rockwood Summit)
Award Won: Inspire Award for promoting robotics and mentoring teams in the community
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The following Rockwood Robotics teams also earned awards at the Feb. 19 qualifier:
- Bosons (Eureka High): Control Award, Finalist Alliance (Captain), Motivate Award Third Place
- Mesons (Eureka): Innovate Award Second Place
- Fermions (Lafayette): Design Award Second Place
- Gluons (Marquette): Finalist Alliance (First Team Selected), Control Award Third Place
- Leptons (Rockwood Summit): Think Award Third Place