INDIANAPOLIS — Paramount Schools of Excellence’s VEX IQ teams advanced to the Worlds championship for the fifth consecutive year. Two elementary school teams, the Zoromes and the Fuchsia Fighters, joined top-ranked teams from around the world in Louisville, Kentucky from April 29 – May 1. The intense, three-day robotics-engineering tournament features the top teams from more than 1,400 regional VEX Robotics tournaments competing 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. 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.
In addition to designing, building and programming their robots, each team completed a STEM challenge, studying the ethical issues that surround autonomous machines in our society. Plus, the Fuchsia Fighters, Paramount’s all-girl team, were finalists for this year’s Google Girl Powered VEX IQ Challenge.
