On March 11,
Harpursville Jr. Sr. High School Technology teacher, Paul Peterson, and
Technology Club Advisor, Bruce Salisbury took four of their qualifying club vex
bot teams to the Northern New York State High School Vex Bot Championship held
at the SRC Arena & Events Center in Syracuse.
The four teams were:
Team One: Logan Culver,
Tanner Hanson and Sara Williams
Team Two: Kyle Colsten, Jacob Risoli-Clark and Dominic Schwartz
Team Three: Matt Lyon,
Connor and Alex Hoyt and Riley Livermore
Team Four: Zach Pike, Nico
Hadlick and Justin Fargo
These four teams qualified
for this event by winning first place in an earlier competition this year.
Upon arrival, each robot had to pass inspection. Two robots that passed competition criteria at this event did not pass inspection at other events, and vice versa. So, as you can see, the four teams have met a lot of challenges along their journey, even prior to competing on this day. Realign, revamp, repeat.
Two robots went into this competition.
There were 65 teams broken down into 2 divisions – 'technology' was one division and then 'engineering' was the other. Team One was in the engineering division. This was a tough division! The team lost once and then took 5th place in the qualifying rounds. Their alliance lost in the quarter
finals.
Teams Two, Three and Four
were in the Engineering division. Team
Three experienced motor problems early on. Team Four went 7-0 in the qualifying rounds and placed 2nd ,
moving to 3rd place in the quarter finals. Team Two continued to work on their bot
throughout the day and it proved successful. Even though it was originally ranked 28th, the Sandy Creek team saw the strength of Team Two’s bot and selected them to join them in the quarter finals! This alliance played an important part in their success. They lost by just one point 98-97 in the first round of the finals. During the stacking ability competition Team Two scored 85-79, then, and finally, 100 to 91 upset to WIN THE NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE HIGH SCHOOL VEX CHAMPIONSHIP! Team Two’s vexbot qualifies for the World’s Vex Box Championship held in Louisville, Kentucky April 25-28th!
Technology Club celebrated at Harpursville’s March 14 Board of Education meeting with punch and cookies to show off their well-deserved trophies and banner. They very proudly and eloquently introduced themselves, their robots and their families to Board members. A very engaging and entertaining hands on lesson with the Board members took place as they reflected on their experiences with building and competing this season.
We are so proud of our
Technology Club, and grateful to their advisors, Mr. Salisbury, who joins us
back from retirement, and Mr. Peterson, for committing their time to help our
students become successful.
Harpursville Technology
Club members are: Kyle Avery, Dominic
Cadwell, Kyle Colsten, Logan Culver, Justin Fargo, Samantha Gilette, Nico
Hadlick, Tanner Hanson, Alex Hoyt, Connor Hoyt, Riley Livermore, Matt Lyon,
Brennan Mann, Derek Mann, Zach Pike, Brandon Riegel, Jacob Risoli-Clark,
Dominic Schwartz, Karina Seeley and Sara Williams.