Extended Learning
Robotics
The VEX IQ and EDR season is almost over, yet our VEX teams entered some amazing robots in the final tournaments of the season.
Our Year 5 and 6 VEX IQ teams competed earlier this year and posted nation high scores and personal bests. Cereal Eaters, with Amelia Carlan (Year 7) and Nicole Zhang (Year 7) representing the team, worked tirelessly over the holidays rebuilding their robot. Their efforts were rewarded as they and Vex Vibes, Emily Woods-McConville (Year 6), Valerie Zhao (Year 6) and Chloe Shao (Year 6), teamed up in the final and posted the tournament high score and one of the highest scores in Australia.
Pymble Tinkers, Sophie Kidd (Year 6), Lily Xing (Year 6) and Annabella Bayfield (Year 6), posted their best score and earned a place in Nationals. Leahara Wijesuriya (Year 6) and Jessica Persson (Year 6), who showed amazing determination and creativity in realising a design for a catapult, were also rewarded a place in Nationals for their original design and amazing documentation of their design process.
Pymble Juniors Salty Sea Salt, Emily Yu (Year 7) and Catherine Zheng (Year 7), qualified for Nationals with their drivetrain design, which utilises H-drive. This means their robot can not only move forward and backwards but also left to right, a first for this year’s competition and for Pymble. Along with Pymble Tinkers, the ‘Salty Sea Salt finished in second place in the tournament.
Our Middle School girls competed in the final tournament of the season. Team 20731A Lacuna recorded their highest score in programming and Maya Garg (Year 9) scored an impressive 100 points. EDR team 20731G Pymble Pliers won the programming matches with a total score of 120 points, having worked on their autonomous code using Microsoft Teams to communicate during lockdown throughout online learning. 20731P used advanced coding and posted an impressive total score with a reliable robot thanks to their efforts and skills.
In the spirit of ‘Having a go’, 20731F Græssoup focused on an element of the game that does not score highly, but nonetheless posed an engineering challenge. Eager for the challenge, the girls put in a lot of effort to surmount the difficulties posed by collecting and placing rings in various places around the field. As a result, they have one of the few robots capable of completing this task and scored an impressive 140 points.
The new Years 3 and 4 program started this term led by the amazing Mrs Tedesco. In these sessions the girls learned about the various parts of the VEX GO system and completed challenges including making moveable figures and flags representing space exploration and catching the robotics bug in the process. We look forward to the robotics road ahead for these girls.
Please congratulate our teams below:
Tournament
Excellence Award
6510A Donut Assassins – Milly Xu (Year 7), Isis Li (Year 7), Scarlett Li (Year 7)
Tournament Winners
6510B Cereal Eaters – Nicole Zhang (Year 7), Amelia Carlan (Year 7), Camille Xiao (Year 7), Annabelle Li (Year 7)
6510M Vex Vibes – Emily Woods-McConville (Year 6), Chloe Shao (Year 6) and Valerie Zhao (Year 6)
Nationals Qualification
6510D Pymble Tinkers – Anabella Bayfield (Year 6), Lily Xing (Year 6), Sophie Kidd (Year 6)
6510F Salty Sea Salt – Emily Yu (Year 7) Catherine Zheng (Year 7) – Nationals Qualification
6510K Axleottles – Leahara Wijesuriya (Year 6) and Jessica Persson (Year 6)
Design Award (Qualification for Nationals)
6510J The Hogwarts Express – Nazgol Koochakzadeh (Year 7), Saskia Nicholson (Year 7), Alannah Tang (Year 7), Daisey Wang (Year 7)
Tournament
20731A Lacuna – Maya Garg (Year 9), Annie Luo (Year 9), Rachel Moon (Year 9), Teresa Sun (Year 9)
20731C La Cosa Vera – Emma Du (Year 9), Samantha He (Year 9), Rischa Jadav (Year 9), Marissa Shou (Year 9), Isabella Xu (Year 9)
Nationals Qualification
20731F Græssoup – Ollisha Muthunkuda (Year 9), Ariana Bansal (Year 9), Vicky Hu (Year 9)
20731G Pymble Pliers – Katrina Lin (Year 9), Grace Beck (Year 8), Penelope Danziger (Year 8), Michelle Pan (Year 8)
20731M Pymble Pterodactyls – Imogen Wu (Year 8), Kitty He (Year 8), Iris Li (Year 8), Alice Mao (Year 8), Jessica Xu (Year 8)
20731P – Isabella Nguyen (Year 9), Thinara Siriniwasa (Year 9), Isabella Chen (Year 9), Chi Ien Zhan (Year 9)
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