End-of-year competition features student-designed game
May 31, 2023 / More than 200 high school and middle school students from Lost River, Chiloquin, Mazama, Brixner, Henley Middle and Henley High put their robots to the test May 31 in the second annual end-of-the-year KCSD Robotics Bash.
Eighty-four teams – 40 middle school and 44 high school – gathered at the Klamath County Fairgrounds to compete against each other in a game designed by KCSD robotics students.
For this event, all robotics teams are asked to create game that can be used for competition, said Laura Nickerson, Mazama robotics coach and organizer of the event. Each school submits their top game and then the coaches chose the game design used in the annual KCSD Robotics Bash.
This year’s game – called Bank It -- involved building and programming robots to pick up discs and move them into corners or goals. The second part of the game has robots stacking cubes.
The matches were refereed by experienced robotics students and teams that qualified and competed in VEX Worlds.
Teams from Brixner Junior High School swept the top three places. In the high school competition, there was a three-way tie for first place between Chiloquin, Mazama, and Henley based on record and autonomous scoring.
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