Three Rolling Robots Teams Qualify for VEX State Championship

Palos Verdes, CA - New year, new achievements! Rolling Robots’ VEX Robotics Competition Teams achieve new records again in their first tournaments of the new year. Six Rolling Robots’ VEX Robotics competition teams participated in two different tournaments on Saturday, January 11th, 2020.

As a #1 Alliance, Teams 7700R and 7700B won Tournament Champions at the 2020 Streets of Bakersfield Robotics Extravaganza. Both teams qualified for the California State Championship in March!

Team 7700R also won Robot Skills Champion, which currently ranks No. 3 in the state of California and No. 23 in the world out of more than 3000 high school teams. Team 7700R members are Samantha Chang, Hannah Kalantar, Sammy Socol, Ethan Kurtz, Aaron Jung, Sean Stassi, Yvonne Lou, and Victoria Tomozei.

Highly notable is that the middle school Team 7700B, consisting of members Jahan Khatibi, Jaehoon Kim, Matthew Kwon, Avery Lam, Jason Lee, Mason Lee, and Annie So, achieved the highest skill score of the teams in this season. This puts their ranking at No. 7 in the State of California, and No. 40 in the world out of more than 1700 middle school teams.

In the McBride VEX Tournament #6, Rolling Robots Team 7700K was the highest ranked middle school team while competing with many high school teams. Cyrus Chepenik, Kyle Chu, Eric Escalante-Henricks, Saif Haji, William Wei, and Eddy Yao are all members of Team 7700K. The team’s overall accomplishments on and off the field earned them the middle school Excellence Award at the tournament, and also qualified the team for the California State Championship in March!

These achievements were the direct results of the hard work by each member of these teams. They have been meeting every week working on designing, building, programming, and testing the team robot for the past six months. Many team members have taken Rolling Robots’ after school workshops and summer camps where they have learned robot building, programming and other skills prior to joining the team.

The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is the largest and fastest growing middle and high school robotics program globally with more than 11,000 teams from 32 countries playing in over 750 tournaments worldwide.

Rolling Robots is a kids tech learning company located in Palos Verdes, Glendale and West LA, where children from local schools and homeschools in preschool through 12th grade learn STEM, robotics and invention in after school programs, summer camps, robot building parties, and workshops. Children can join teams to participate in the VEX Robotics Competition as young as 3rd grade. By taking on the engineering challenge presented in each year’s game, Rolling Robots’ members learn hands-on engineering skills and practice critical life skills ranging from communication and teamwork to perseverance and conflict resolution while simultaneously developing their passion in robotics.

We had a great time at the McBride #VEX #Tournament #6 this past Saturday. Team 7700K won the #Excellence #Award, and they now qualify for the State/Regional #Championship! #rollingrobots #VEXrobotics #technology #wedoSTEM #STEMeducation #longbeach #champion #VEX #competition pic.twitter.com/5LUXp3Ujfp
— Rolling Robots (@RollingRobots) January 14, 2020

Not only did Teams 7700R and 7700B both win #Tournament #Champion last weekend at the 2020 Streets of #Bakersfield #Robotics Extravaganza, but they also both are now qualified for the #State Championship! Team 7700R also won Robot Skills Champion. #tech #science #rollingrobots pic.twitter.com/c5NrSSfKgK