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June 8, 2022
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Robotics team in
top eight in Worlds competition
They are the known as the Hansons to join them and have “Jugglenauts” and they finished been competing as a group for four in the top 8 at the VEX Robotics years. Three of the four in the VRC Worlds competition. group are high-school aged. Kaden Corey Nord, Kaden Hanson, Hansen is one of the only eighth Kyler Hanson, and Kevin Nord graders in the competition who flew to Dallas, Texas, (the first was a ‘driver’ of the robot. flight for all four) to compete Building the robots takes a lot of against 800 other teams from all time and with all four busy with over the world. They won their circus and school activities, it can engineering division out of 83 be difficult to set aside the time teams. They also became the needed. first Indiana team to compete in “Late Friday nights, spending the VexDome for the finals. the night at their house or I'll stay The fabulous four use the up super late because me and my name “Jugglenauts” because of brother are homeschooled, so we their involvement in the Peru have time in the morning to do Amateur Circus as jugglers. that. We really just have to do it The group is used to working whenever we can and we are super as a team, learning that skill in excited for next year,” said Kyler. the circus. Now that they are Although all the participants of competing in robotics, that lesthe 800 teams are there to win, son is being utilized by collabolending a helping hand to another rating with people they have team actually happens at these never met before. An alliance competitions. One competitor of team of the Jugglenauts was the another team, the Robo Dogs, DiscoBots of Seattle, found out the Jugglenauts needed Washington. a wire, and he knew his team had “Robotics is all about communijust what they needed. He ran the cating, teamwork, and just entire length of the facility, which building. As a team we build is nearly a quarter of a mile, to retrieve the wire and ran all the robots, program, and we drive. We have a metal robot that we From left to right: Kevin Nord, Kyler Hanson, Brad Nord, Corey Nord, and Kaden way back to get the wire to them in put together with screws and Hanson stand with a banner at the VEX Robotics competition. The group was in time. “We got it fixed and we ended up plastic then we compete with the top eight out of 800 teams. Photo provided winning. They were super excited that, and we talk to other teams for us and not really bummed. They were just happy that we made it. We and get to know them,” said Kyler Hanson. Robotics is nothing new to the group. The Nords started in elementary with were going against them in our finals match, and they decided to give us a their school team and then moved to a home team. They invited the See VEX, Page 2
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