What is the VEX Project? The VEX is a challenge for primary schools which allows the children to use their teamwork skills. Over 75 primary and post primary teams participated in last year’s competition. Our robot last year was called R2-D2 and it did very well. We are really looking forward to competing this year and seeing how we do. THE ARENA
Ringmaster is played on a 4’x8’ rectangular field configured as seen above. Two robots compete in the Teamwork Challenge as an alliance in 60 second long teamwork matches, working collaboratively to score points. Teams also compete in the Robot Skills Challenge where one robot takes the field to score as many points as possible. These matches consist of Driving Skills Matches, which will be entirely driver controlled, and Programming Skills Matches, which will be autonomous with limited human interaction.
VEX ROBOTICS TEAMS P R: Alec Harrison, Eimear Corkery, Zach Newstead, Jack Delaney STEM REASEARCH: Eric Murphy, Eimear O’Sullivan, Rachel Bowen, Siobhán Barrow, Elizabeth Long, Seán Casey ENGINEERING LOGBOOK: Luke Martin, Edel Downey, Sophie Martin, Clodagh O ‘ Shea BUILDERS AND DESIGNERS: Jimmy Riordan, Ciarán Thompson, Benjamin Champion, Isobelle Ronan, Sam Murphy, Clara Daly, Tiegan Cook, Garrett Roche PROGRAMMES: Ailbhe Lucey, Neil Moynihan, Breandán O’Sullivan, Shane Bermingham
We are really looking forward to the VEX Robotics. We've been waiting from the second we heard about it! We wish the best of luck to our Coachford N.S. team and all the other teams.
SIGNED,Alec Harrison, Eimear Corkery, Jack Delaney, Zach Newstead.