FBISD students heading to state in robotics competition

Staff Reports

A community team made up of students from Sartartia and Fort Settlement middle schools and Elkins High School recently advanced to the state level of the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), a robotics competition for secondary students, taking place later this month in Belton, Texas, according to a Fort Bend ISD online story.

Team members include Sartartia’s Abhiram Pavuluri, Maanav Pinapala and Neil Vellanki, Fort Settlement’s Pranav Tammana and Elkins’s Suhas Vemuri.

The team earned the following awards in the regional competition:

1st Place in Design – Given to teams that best incorporate industrial and functional design into their robot

• 2nd Place in Inspire – Given to the strongest ambassador of FIRST programs and the team that best performed across all judged categories

• 2nd Place in Con - nect – Given to the team most connected to their STEM community

2nd Place in Control – Celebrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges attentive as I would have expected, surprising given the fact that the dining room wasn't particularly crowded. Perhaps it was just an off day, or there are still some kinks being worked out, but given the amount of the final tab, that was particularly disappointing.

3rd Place in Motivate – Given to teams that spark others to embrace the culture of FIRST FIRST Tech Challenge is a robotics competition that invites students in grades 7-12 to design, build, program and operate robots to compete in head-to-head challenges, acquiring STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills. Visit firstintexas.org to learn more about FIRST Tech Challenge.

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