Here's a guest post from Olaf Verdonk, CVU Design and Engineering Technology Teacher. He shares exciting news about the success of CVU's robotics team, the RoboHawks, this past weekend.
The Vermont State Robotics Championships happened this weekend and...
CVU RoboHawks are the Vermont State Robotics Champions!
They have qualified for the FIRST Robotics WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Houston, TX !!!!!!
It was an exciting tournament in which CVU fielded TWO teams this year!
We had a Varsity (RoboHawks) and a JV team (RedHawk Robotics).
Due to COVID the field was a little smaller than usual, but the competition was fierce! There were a lot of capable teams and robots this year from all over Vermont.
Both CVU teams made it to the elimination rounds and an exciting semi final match featured the JV team against the Varsity team. The JV almost beat them!
The Finals was a "best of three" NAIL BITER! The RoboHawks (along with their alliance partner Bubbert Innovations from U-32) won the first match, but lost the second, forcing a tie-breaking third match. The RoboHawks Alliance won in a squeaker, 138 to 124 pts!! It was a super exciting final, one of the best tournaments in recent history.
The RoboHawks racked up several awards.
- Best Vermont Team (State Champions)
- 1st Place - Tournament Champions and Captains of Winning Alliance
- 1st Place - Inspire Award (actually the most prestigious award in a tournament)
- 2nd Place - Motivate Award
- 2nd Place - Design Award
- 3rd Place - Connect Award
NOW the hard work begins to figure out how to make the robot better and get everyone and everything out to Houston, TX April 20th-23rd.
From the RoboHawks:
We would like to thank our sponsors, Kennedy Excavation and NDI, for helping us get this far. However, in order to proceed to this next level of competition, we are looking to raise $7,500 dollars. If you are interested in supporting us on our journey, please go to our website: http://www.robohawks5741.com/ or email our coach: overdonk@cvsdvt.org
The task of getting all RoboHawk team members, a robot, tools, and materials to keep the robot running through an intense 4-day competition is daunting and expensive!
Varsity (RoboHawks): Wolfie Davis, Lindsay Beer, Jared Kennedy, Sam Yager, Crawford Phillips, Jack Gourlay, Charlotte Tyler, Violet Fennern.
JV (JV RedHawk Robotics): Evan Mead, Jonas Hemmett, Joe Jacobs, James Haines, Jacob Graham, Sean Menard.
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