Q&A with the PAISD robotics team

What did it felt like winning the Gear Competition?

• It was definitely unexpected due to it being our first time doing something like this. It was an unreal feeling knowing that we had scored better than most of the other teams who have been doing this for years, because we weren’t expecting to do so well. ——– Huy Nguyen, 8th grade, TJMS

• For teams of Port Arthur, I can comfortably say that winning isn’t just a sense of victory. It’s a challenge and a test to see which of the teams is qualified to do these kinds of obstacles. We could’ve encountered problems such as our code for our EV3 or any bugs and glitches that may have happened. Overall, I am proud of partaking in this competition, as well as having different teams traveling to Lubbock to partake in this event. – Danny Nguyen, 7th grade, TJMS

What do you like about participating in robotics?

• What I like about the ro- botics team is the creativity we had for building and programming the robots – William Reyes, 8th grade, ALMS

• The robotics team gives me a sense of enjoyment and relief. I can work on what I love and have teammates that listen to what I have to say – Is-

abella Roy, 7th grade ALMS

• The reason why I like the robotics team is because something about technology has always interested me. As a child, I have dismantled toy cars and even TVs. Everyone on the team is nice and there are many opportu- nities to be friends with them. – Ezer Hipolito, 8th grade, TJMS

• I like robotics because I’m able to work together with my teammates and work with robots. –Kenroc Miles, 8th grade ALMS

• How fun and nice the coaches are. – Christianna Moseley, 8th grade, ALMS

• During my time with my team in the making of our robot as well as programming, I had quite a fun time. It was also a great opportunity for me to get an idea of designing the robot, building it. and coding it. I enjoyed my experience a lot and would recommend other kids to join robotics as well.

What I like about the robotics team is the creativity we had for building and programming the robots. – William Reyes, 8th grade, ALMS

• I like being on the robotics team because I like to work as a team, and it’s also fun to work with the team and travel. – Lucia Acosta, 6th grade, TJMS

• I like being in the robotics team because it is fun and a really good experience we have. – Alex Nguyen, 8th grade ALMS.

What is difficult about being on the team?

• Being on the team is easy but programming and working on the robot are the only hard stuff. –Kenroc Miles, 8th grade, ALMS

The only hard part of being on a team was choosing who does what. – William Reyes, 8th grade, ALMS

• As a team member, I can say that not all the times we agreed on a certain way of doing things or going about things in a certain way. However, it can be overcome by working it out and listening to each other’s opinions.

– Jose Moreno, 7th grade, TJMS

• It’s not difficult if you have good grades and attend all training sessions. – Jamor Ragan. 8th grade, ALMS.

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Huy Nguyen, 8th grade, TJMS

• I think the only thing that was hard was learning how each coding works and how they each work differently. – Huy Nguyen, 8th grade, TJMS