MEET SPARTA’S WINNING ROBOTICS TEAMS
Three Sparta robotics teams make it to States in a large competition
By: Noelle Hanek
On Saturday, February 19th, the VEX Robotics competition took place at Sparta High School. There were sixty-four teams competing at the event, making it the largest VEX robotics competition in New Jersey this year.
To make it to the top, a team had to make it through the two rounds of the event: the qualification round and the tournament. During the qualification round, each competing team’s robot was randomly paired against another team’s robot. These robots were designed and developed to accomplish certain tasks, with this year’s task consisting of scoring rings on goals and placing these goals on platforms. Each team is given a rank, and the top-ranking teams during qualifiers are allowed to choose their alliance partner for the tournament round, which will be run in a single-elimination format. Half of the sixty-four competing teams at Sparta made it to the tournament round. Three skillful Spartan teams were able to surpass the qualification round and make it to the tournament round- making them even closer to victory.
One Sparta team that performed well was varsity team 5249Z, “Ring Leader”, including Sarah Bargfrede (co-captain), Hayden Budofsky, Anthony DelCoro, Tanner Mell, Shaelin Murphy (primary coder) Andy Stefanik, and Nick Ventresca (co-captain and driver). Together, these hard-working students ranked 5th in qualifiers. The team additionally received the “Think Award” for their autonomous programming.
The other qualifying teams included:
5249 X “Magician” with Team Captain Bektar Totshev, and team members Liam Askin, Noah Atkins, and Nick Audino.
5249 S “Maestro” with Team Captain Millen Duberry, and team members Tyler Harms, Shannon Lloyd, Brandon Louissaint, Cassidy Pry, and Andrew Reza.
5249 J “Not to Scale” with Co-captains Laurel Ferguson and Jack Maraziti, and team members Jack Budofsky, Joe Byrnes, Matt Byrnes, and Kayleigh Simpson.
All of Sparta’s qualifying teams will compete Holmdel on March 5th.
Outstanding work Sparta Robotics, and best of luck to all the qualifying teams!
Team members of 5249 Z, “Ring Leader” who ranked 5th in the qualifying round
Image from Sparta Independent: http://www.spartaindependent.com/news/local-news/sparta-robotics-ring-leader-team-ranks-5th-heads-to-the-states-AK1972075
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