STE. GENEVIEVE – Last month, Ste. Genevieve High School’s Dragons Robotics team competed in its first-ever high school VEX Robotics Competition V5 event, taking on the season’s Push Back challenge and delivering an impressive debut performance.
Students designed, built and programmed their own robot to compete in a fast-paced, highly strategic environment. Matches required teams to form alliances with partner schools and compete against other alliances, balancing offensive and defensive strategies while adapting in real time. Students worked together to score points, block opposing teams and respond quickly to changing conditions on the field.
Beyond driving the robot during matches, Dragons Robotics students demonstrated advanced technical and problem-solving skills through multiple competition components. Team members coded their robot for autonomous operation, competed in skills challenges and maintained a detailed engineering notebook documenting their design process, troubleshooting and iterative improvements for scoring and evaluation.
Competing against experienced teams, the Dragons rose to the challenge and advanced all the way to the finals, finishing fifth overall.
Congratulations to our Dragons Robotics team for an outstanding performance!