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New Zealand & China Team Up to Win VEX Robotics Competition
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
New Zealand’s Free Range Robotics and Kristin Doves teams and Shanghai’s Luwan high school team triumphed as the winning alliance after defeating nearly 400 teams through multiple rounds of intense competition.
(via Earthtimes) Elite VEX teams from middle schools, high schools and universities competed at the Dallas Convention Center on April 22-24 with innovative robots they designed and built using the VEX Robotics Design System.
The VEX Robotics Competition World Championship included qualifying teams from 14 countries including Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States for three days of non-stop, high-energy robotics challenges.
The VEX Robotics program is the largest and fastest growing middle and high school robotics competition in the world, featuring 200 events with 2,600 teams representing 20 countries.
The VEX robots were engineered to play the game “Clean Sweep” with students applying their programming skills and strategic thinking to defeat the opposition. Participants of the VEX program compete throughout the year and learn critical life skills including leadership, teamwork and technical problem solving. Richard Paul, captain of New Zealand's Free Range Robotics team from the winning alliance said, “VEX Robotics has taught us how to work together in high pressure situations. We’re now better prepared to handle challenges because we’ve learned how to approach problems with different solutions.”
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