The third annual Hawaiian Electric Companies Hawaii State VEX Championship, featuring 32 high school robotics teams from across the state, will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Saturday at the Pearl City High School cafeteria. Big Island schools
The third annual Hawaiian Electric Companies Hawaii State VEX Championship, featuring 32 high school robotics teams from across the state, will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Saturday at the Pearl City High School cafeteria. Big Island schools participating in the competition are Kealakehe High, Konawaena High, Kohala High, Hilo Viking Robotics, and Saint Joseph School.
The championship, which will qualify six high school teams to participate in the VEX Worlds Championship in Louisvillle, Kentucky, next April, is free and open to the public.
“VEX robotics and its partner programs are the fastest growing scholastic robotics programs in the world with more than 15,000 teams,” said Art Kimura of the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium, which organizes the competition. “The Hawaii teams have competed in qualifying regional tournaments to advance to the state championship and through our sponsor, Hawaiian Electric Companies, will now have a shot at competing in the VEX Worlds event.”
The 2015-2016 VEX Game Challenge, Nothing But Net, pits an alliance of two teams (“red” and “blue”) in timed matches on a 12-by-12-foot playing field. The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing alliance by maneuvering the robots — in autonomous or driver-controlled play — to move colored balls across the field and into a net, as well as elevating an opposing team’s robot, in order to score points.
Info: www.robotevents.com/robot-competitions/vex-robotics-competition/re-vrc-15-3584.html.
