The robotics team competed at KIPP High School on Jan. 11. The Dynamics placed 5th and the Juggernauts placed 21st and they competed against 30 other schools. They will compete again at KIPP on Jan. 25.
“We are all engineers,” junior William Jackson said. “We all love building, working with each other. Being able to take those and put that onto something, that’s what robotics is for all of us.”
The teams compete in a tournament called First Tech Challenge where new games are made for the league each year. The theme this year is “Into the Deep” and it requires scoring
blocks into little buckets and grabbing them from a box.

Written by Marco Rodriguez (Photographed by Ryan Griego)
“We want to advance to semi-finals, or semi-area, either one,” senior Owen Kroeger said. “We’ve been consistently at the top of our league.”
The club is split into four groups of coding, building, designing and marketing.The marketing group will be selling chocolates everyday until Jan. 28 to raise money for building the robots and receiving club materials.
“If we can sell all of them by next week we’d raise enough money to really help fund the parts needed for the robots and marketing,” junior Lyrika Van Vilet said. “As well as maybe have the chance to go to the World Robotics Competition again.”
The top 12 teams that place at the competition tomorrow will make it to semi-finals.
“I think we’ve got a good shot,” Kroeger said. “Just wish us luck.”