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competition. The Hockadaisies team won the Judges award. This award is given to a team whose unique efforts, performance, and dynamics merit recognition. These girls were also one of the overall top five teams at the competition (out of 32 teams) and qualified for the championship. The Hockaway team was one of the overall top 12 teams at the competition, and the girls qualified for the super qualifier, which is a second chance for the girls to compete and qualify for the championship. Participants in the LEGO League competition included Hockadaisies: Sarah Crow (seventh grade), Riya Guttigoli (sixth grade), and Anusha Mehta (eighth grade); the Hockaway: Kelsey Chen (seventh grade), Madeline Sumrow (sixth grade), and Payton Thurman (sixth grade); and the Hockabots: Sydney Ghorayeb (sixth grade), Sophia Podeszwa (sixth grade), and Ananya Sharma (sixth grade).
Adoette Vaughan Featured for Her Win at the SPC Championship Adoette Vaughan (Class of 2019) was featured in an article in MileSplitTX, an online news forum for cross country and track and field, titled “Five Freshmen Girls
The Hockaday Robotics Team with their robot at Texas BEST Robotics Competition
to Watch in 2016!” The Hockaday freshman had a big race at the McNeil Invitational placing 11th, running the fastest freshmen 5K time this year of 17:53. This was the only race all year in which Vaughan did not place in the top three. At Marcus II Invitational she was the third-fastest finisher in the girls elite race. While in Form I, Vaughan won the SPC North Zone Championship and went on to win the SPC Championships. She will be someone to watch during the next three years!
Adoette Vaughan (Class of 2019) wins SPC as a freshman.
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Hockaday Robotics Team Wins Judges Award at Texas BEST Robotics Competition The Hockaday Robotics Team competed in Texas BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science & Technology™) Robotics Competition. The event started out positively with great showings in the team’s marketing presentation and successful practice rounds. On day two, the team started the rounds slowly with a broken connection between the remote and the robot, and they did not score in the first two rounds of the competition. However, once the team figured out a solution, they consistently scored points in every round. This success in overcoming their trials and working as a team won them the Judges Award. The team included Cristina Chavez (Class of 2016), Kate Clement (Class of 2016), Christine Ji (Class of 2018), Tosca Langbert (Class of 2019), Lydia Li (Class of 2016), Annie Lin (Class of 2016), Linda Liu (Class of 2019), Gillian Meyer (Class of 2016), Alexandra Randolph (Class of 2016), Emma Rose Shore (Class of 2018), and Christina Yang (Class of 2019).