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Additionally, the school’s Echelon team won the Tour- nament Champions Award and will advance to the next stage.
The Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium oversees the lo- cal competitions with fund- ing through the University of Hawai‘i Foundation. HSGC also offers various remote and in-person trainings and workshops for students, teachers and coaches, inter- ested in developing a robot- ics curriculum for STEM/ro- botic classes. It also mentors teachers and students in the rookie robotics programs.
They will showcase their game strategy and design and teamwork skills for an oppor- tunity to win the title at the VEX Robotics World Cham-
Saint Louis’ Echelon team (in red) poses with the Mililani Mechs at the Hawai‘i VEX Robotics Middle and High School State Championships. PHOTO COURTESY RANDAL LAU
pionship held April 25-May 4 ucational program that supporting teamwork, ments are held year-round in Dallas, Texas. inspires students to excel creativity, leadership and at the regional, state and VEX Robotics is an ed- in STEM principles while problem solving. Tourna- national levels and culmi-
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East O‘ahu School Participates In Robotics Tournament
The Hawai‘i VEX Robot- ics Middle and High School State Championships, which is sponsored by Hawaiian Electric Company, took place Feb. 19-20 at Kamehameha Schools’ Kapālama campus. East O‘ahu’s Saint Louis School took home four dif- ferent awards. Its Apple team won the Tournament Finalists Award, and its X-Turn team won the Build Award in addi- tion to the Robot Skills Sec- ond Place Award.
nate in the VEX Robotics World Championship.
For more information, vis- it spacegrant.hawaii.edu.
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