BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE ROBOMESSE

ISB Hosts Second Annual Robotics Competition

On February 23, ISB hosted our second annual Robomesse robotics competition, with a team from IS Lausanne, two teams from TASIS, a team from Leysin American School and four teams from ISB. This competition served as the Swiss qualifying tournament for the world robotics competition in Dallas, Texas. The competition consisted of four components: qualifying matches, design notebooks and interviews, skills challenge, and official matches. During qualifying matches, robots were paired up against each other to score points. Design notebooks documented the building process, and teams were interviewed and scored based on their documentation. The skills challenge required a team’s robot to score as many points as possible in one minute. In the final component, teams that scored the best in the qualifying matches formed alliances to compete for the trophy.

The award for the design notebook and interview went to the ISB Grade 11 boys team; Josh Alcobia Gomes, Asger Otte, Rodrigo Watanabe and Jordin van der Graaf. The skills challenge award was given to the ISB Grade 11 girls team; Anika Kerls, Olivia Avalos Villar and myself. The matches trophy was awarded to the winning alliance consisting of our ISB Grade 10 team; Peter Drock, Xander Wiersma, Julius Wienand, Vansh Dudani, together with the TASIS boys team. Our ISB Grade 9 boys team; Anton Delebarre, Iacopo Roncoroni, and Noel Ahnesorg won the award for placing best in the qualifying matches. The team from IS Lausanne was awarded the Judges award which recognises a robot they felt had a lot of potential and performed very well. The winner of the Excellence award would be the team invited to Dallas, this year the girls team from TASIS were selected as the Excellence award winners.