Both Upper School's VEX and FIRST Technical Challenge (FTC) robotics teams recently completed their 2017-18 seasons by participating in their respective Southeast Texas Regional Championships. While neither team advanced to the next round of competition, each competed hard in their final matches.
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The VEX team achieved early success, winning the Cy-Fair Clawbot Challenge at the end of September, just a few weeks removed from Hurricane Harvey. Competing in three qualifying matches, the team improved their robots capabilities each time. At the VEX Southeast Texas Regional tournament in late February, the team finished 3-5 against the top teams in the region, its strongest showing since the Clawbot Challenge.
The FTC Robotics participated in the West Houston FTC league where they experienced both failures and success throughout the season. The season's high point came at the Reindeer Roundup Qualifying tournament in December, where the team earned second place in the Inspire Award. The Inspire Award is the highest honor given to the team that best embodies the FIRST Tech Challenge Program by being a strong ambassador for FIRST programs, being a top contender in the other judges awards, and acting with Gracious Professionalism.
Julian Meyer '19 was named one of three FIRST Technical Challenge Dean's List finalist at the Southeast Texas
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Regionals and is under consideration to become one of ten Dean's List Award winners that will be announced at the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Houston in mid-April. More information about the FIRST Dean's List can be found here at https://www.firstinspires.org/
robotics/ftc/deans-list .
Congratulate Julian and both teams on another solid season!