Friday, March 29, 2024

Dragon Robotics Receives World Championship Invite

The Carroll Robotics team recently won the SW Regional FTC Championship Tournament and earned an invitation to compete at the World Championships.

Saturday, March 16, two teams to competed in Arlington in a field of 24 teams that had already won Area Competitions. In the final rounds, Carroll’s two teams combined forces to form an alliance and win the competition in a very close and exciting match. As captains of the winning alliance, the Green Dragons Team progressed to the world championships. The Black Dragons team also received the Rockwell Collins  Innovation Award for their robot design. The following students participated in last weekend’s event: Zech Hein, George Farcasiu, Erik Andrup, Reid Long, Nick Fisher, Trevor Walter, Vijay Ramesh, Tunc Gocay, Skye Pekerti, Danielle Brown, Abbas Ally, Nikhil Ravi, Stephen Ma, Deepak Chandra, and Reed Emery.

The World Championship is scheduled for next month in St. Louis. The competition includes just 128 teams from around the world.

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