Last Wednesday, East Barnet School hosted its 5th VEX Robotics London Regional Competition for VEX EDR and VEX iQ.
There were a total of five schools competing from EDR, which consisted of 11 teams. Every team was competing for a space at the UK VEX Robotics National Finals. For the last five years since the inception of VEX Robotics here in the UK, East Barnet School has competed and won all its VEX Robotics London Regional competitions and gone on to qualify for the VEX Robotics UK National Finals. So it came as no surprise that Team VOLT won the London UK Regional VEX Robotics tournament for East Barnet School in the VEX EDR division.
This year also saw a few new entries in the VEX EDR division. We now have a new all girl team – Girls of Steel, and they competed in their first ever qualification match and did very well, achieving 8th place overall. They didn’t qualify for the nationals but there are other regional competitions that they will attend and Team VOLT will be helping to get them through to the 2017 National Finals in Birmingham.
In the VEX iQ competition, we had a Year 8 team, Flash Robotics and also a new Year 7 all girl team – The Robows. The Robows only joined EBS Robotics last week during Monday lunch, but they competed and came 2nd out of 10 teams in their competition.
Flash Robotics came back from a bad start (bottom of the table) to break through and compose themselves. They went on to win the Teamwork Champions Award and this meant that they also qualified for the UK VEX iQ National Finals with Volt Robotics next year in March 2017. The atmosphere was full of energy and everyone had fun.
For the fifth year running, EBS Robotics now has two teams that have qualified early for the VEX Robotics National Finals in Birmingham next year at the Big Bang Event 2017.
