January 18, 2016

McKamy Robotics Club Brings Home 5 Awards!

FMHS's Flower Mound Showdown VEX Nothing But Net

Saturday, January 16th

McKamy Robotics Club brings home five coveted awards from Saturday's "Flower Mound Showdown - VEX Nothing But Net" Competition! McKamy's ten robotic teams, and one middle school team from Galveston, competed as alliances with and against twenty-eight high school teams in the club's first VEX competition of the 2015-2016 season hosted by our mentors Flower Mound High School. 

The five VEX awards the club received are on display in the front office before moving to the robotics lab. The awards are:

Tournament Champions - RetroRobots (Alliance Win)

Tournament Finalists - Vectors (Alliance Win)

Sportsmanship Award - Robot Destroyers (Team Win)

Judges Award - Techie Texans (Team Win)

Design Award - Vectors (Team Win)

It was a very proud day in our second year as a robotics club for our members, their families and our McKamy community! So may truly positive McKamy Knight examples througout the day as the 10 McKamy teams cheered each other on and helped each other during dynamic crisis moments!

We are so thankful for our amazing team of twenty-one Parent Mentors who inspire and mentor our ten teams every day!  Special thank you to Principal Taggart for sponsoring the ten teams competition registration fees and our Sponsor Mr. Blalack for being with us every step of the way on this journey.

Our teams are charged up after their rest to prepare for hosting and competing on February 6th for our first McKamy Middle School Only VEX Nothing But Net Competition to be held here at McKamy!  We will need lots of volunteers so please encourage your family and friends to sign up.  For more information mckamyrobotics@gmail.com.

Keep Calm and Robot On!

McKamy Robotics Booster Club Board

The day was exciting with two McKamy teams finishing the seven rounds of alliance Qualifying Matches in the top 10! Congratulations to Dunk'in Robots 8909F and Robot Destroyers 8909A for this incredible accomplishment!  

As a result these two teams moved up into a position during the Elimination Alliance Selection to be a lead team for selecting other teams to join their alliance and compete in the Elimination Matches.  The mock "Alliance Selection" inspired and lead by the MRC Student Officers on Thursday at our club meeting was right on the money to prepare them!

During the Alliance Selection process three McKamy's Teams were invited and accepted an alliance with the top three seeded lead teams respectively....congratulations to RetroRobots 8909K, Techie Texans 8909C and Vectors 8909B! Then fellow McKamy Team TEX VEX 8909J was invited and accepted to join the Dunk'in Robots alliance!

It was an exciting end with the final Elimination Alliances going head to head in the Tournament Championships that included RetroRobots 8909K and the other with Vectors 8909B!

The Tournament Champion 3 Team Alliance Winners were:

Zulu Nightmare 400Z (MS Team from Galveston, TX)

Enderphase 360 (HS Team from Rowlett, TX)

RetroRobots 8909K  (6th MS grade from McKamy!!) 

Special Awards

Just when we thought it could not get more exciting....the coveted team awards determined by the 8 judges after a full day of interviews, competition observations and Engineering Notebook reviews for the 39 teams were announced!  Yes, you could hear the cheers in Dallas as McKamy swept 3 of the 4 team awards:

Sportsmanship Award - Robot Destroyers 8909A (Award goes to the team that is a model for all to follow and interacts wtih everyone in a positive, respectful manner in the spirit of friendly competition and cooperation.)

Judges Award - Techie Texans 8909C (Award goes to a team the judges decide is deserving of special recognition. Judges consider a number of possible creteria for the award, such as team displays of special attributes, exemplary effort and perseverence at the event, and team accomplishments or endeavors throughout the season that may not fall under existing awards, but are nonetheless deserving of special recognition.)

Design Award - Vectors 8909B (Award is presented to a team that demonstrates an organized and professional approach to design process, project management, time management and team organization. The winning team is able to describe how they implemented an efficient and prductive design process to accomplish the project goals).

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