INDIANAPOLIS — Paramount School of Excellence’s VEX IQ Robotics recently returned to the VEX IQ Worlds championship for the fourth consecutive year. Paramount was represented by two elementary and one middle school teams. Eighth-grader, Sam Clouse, has been a part of a champion team each year. The Paramount students joined top-ranked teams from around the world in Louisville, Kentucky from April 23-26. The intense three-day annual robotics-engineering tournament featured the top teams from over 1,400 regional VEX Robotics tournaments to compete against the best of the best.
The teams’ participation at the World Championship is the culmination of months of preparation to engineer and custom-build a robot, code the commands and have the robot accomplish difficult missions. Annually, the competitive robotics teams are tasked with designing and building robots to play against each other in a game-based engineering challenge. STEM concepts are put to the test as students also learn lifelong skills as teamwork, leadership, and communications.
Additionally, the Pinkalicious elementary team qualified to present their unique STEM research project. The team designed a cheese turning robot that automates the labor intense task of turning cheese every twelve hours for Paramount’s goat cheese production kitchen.
