North Shore NewsThe Canefires, Hale‘iwa Elementary School Robotics teams, have enjoyed a very successful VEX IQ robotics season this school year. On Saturday, February 17, both the fifth and sixth-grade teams competed at the Hawaii VEX IQ Elementary School Regional Championship, hoping to earn one of four berths to represent Hawaii at the Vex IQ Elementary World Championship in Dallas, Texas. With 30 outstanding teams participating in the tournament, each match felt like a nail-biter. After all of the qualification matches were done, the fifth-grade team was in 7th place and the sixth-grade team was in first place overall, going into the finals round.
After a very intense and close final round, the fifth graders emerged in third place overall and the sixth graders earned first place overall in the Teamwork Challenge with their partner, the Manoa Green Tigers. By winning first place in the Teamwork Challenge, the sixth graders automatically secured a spot to compete at the Worlds Competition in Dallas, Texas in May. The sixth graders also brought home the Design Award which recognizes a team’s ability to demonstrate, implement and document the most effective and efficient robot design process in their engineering notebook.
Congratulations!
Fifth grade: Joycelin Riggen, Sage Langford, Mehana Peer, Charlie Daugherty, Harley Toki-Andrade, Kaleo Jorgensen Sixth grade: Eiden Acorda- Manmano, Kanui Young, Brian Tudor, Charlie Roberts, Noelle Velles-Lumoya, Kawena Nakai, Eli Johnson.