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'Iolani wins in robotics contest | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Thursday, December 11, 2008

'Iolani wins in robotics contest

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Students from around the Pacific show what the robots they built can do. Six-hundred-fifty students made up the 83 teams, including 55 from Hawai'i, that just finished participating in the inaugural VEX Robotics Pan Pacific Championship at the Hawai'i Convention Center.

GREGORY YAMAMOTO | The Honolulu Advertiser

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A three-team alliance — composed of 'Iolani School Team Iobotics and two teams from the California Academy of Math and Science Team — took top honors in the VEX Robotics Pan-Pacific Championship that wrapped up Saturday at the Hawai'i Convention Center.

The win qualifies the three teams, made up of middle and high school robotics students, to advance to the VEX Robotics World Championship at the Dallas Convention Center and Arena on April 30-May 2.

At the championship, the teams will compete against top-ranked peers from other countries including teams from the Asian Robotics League, South America and Europe.

Other competitors from the Pan-Pacific Championship that qualified to advance to the world championship include teams from:

  • Moanalua High School; Pearl Highlands Intermediate School; Waiakea High School; Campbell High School; McKinley High School and Bellarmine Preparatory Academy (San Jose, Calif.).

    The Hawai'i competition kicked off Thursday between 83 student teams from 55 Hawai'i, U.S. Mainland and Asian schools.

    The teams squared off in the game of "Elevation," the object of which is to place cubes into goals of various heights, or "elevations," and to "own" goals by having the highest cube in a given goal.

    Eight three-team alliances competed in the finals. They were:

  • Moanalua High School Team A, Pearl Highlands Intermediate, Waiakea High School Team 2024.

  • Waiakea High School, Lahainaluna High School Team I, Nianjing Jinling High School (Hong Kong).

  • Kohala High School, Bellarmine College Preparatory (Calif.), Farrington High School.

  • McKinley High School Team E, McKinley High School Team F, Tsinghua University Primary School (Hong Kong).

  • Campbell High School Team D, Island School, Kalani High School Team Falcons.

  • 'Iolani School Iobotics, California Academy of Math and Science Team J, California Academy of Math and Science Team K.

  • Honoka'a High and Intermediate School, Hawai'i Baptist Academy, Pearl Middle School Attached to NNU B (Hong Kong).

  • Waipahu Intermediate School Team B, Waipahu Intermediate School Team A Campbell High School Team C.

    VEX Robotics is one of six major robotics programs for Hawai'i students. To learn more about student robotics in Hawai'i and to see photos and video of the championship, go to www.hawaii.gov/gov or www.robotics.hawaii.gov.

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