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Lower & Middle School Robotics Teams Prepare for Competition (VIEW UPDATE)

Students gear up for on-campus competition and "bank shot" challenge.
Update November 16, 2015: Our Lower & Middle School robotics teams performed phenomenally, earning top individual and team rankings as well as state tournament qualifications. Four Middle School teams competed with the following results:
  • 3rd place - Rohan Sikand (8th grade) and James Glover (7th grade)
  • 11th - Shrish Vaidyaselvan and Nicholas Saxson (both 8th grade)
  • 12th - Zachary Baron and Christian Trujillo (both 6th grade)
  • 16th - Winston Kelnec-Blank and Kayla Shah (both 6th grade)
The Middle School team competes next on November 21 at McManus School in Linden.
 
Our fifth-grade team, including a few fourth-grade substitutes who helped to drive the robots, had five teams place in the top 10 and eight students qualify for states. Earning top rankings were: David Tansey and Christian Virone (1st); Bella Santulli and Maria Guiliano (3rd), Luke Zaslow and Chaz Hovnanian (4th), Pierce Kane and Tomas Mora (6th); and Jack Whitman with fourth-grader Curtis Chropuvka (9th). Teams that earned up to fourth place have qualified for the New Jersey VEX IQ Tournament taking place December 13 on campus. This was the fifth-grade team's first time every competing in a robotics tournament!
 
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Ranney's Middle School and Lower School robotics students are gearing up for their VEX IQ competition, taking place on campus this Saturday, November 14 in The Commons.

Students in grades 5-8 will be participating in a Bank Shot challenge against teams from Summit, Sterling and Somerset, NJ, among others. The challenge involves programming and driving their robots to gain as many points as possible within 60 seconds by picking up and dropping as many as 44 balls into the score zone. The competition field will include a ramp and slots to catch the balls, making driving and maneuvering more difficult. This will be the first competition for our Lower School fifth graders, advised by Science Teacher Judy Salisbury and Technology Teacher Maureen Wood.

Middle School Robotics is advised this year by Math Teacher Carol Ann Rofrano, with assistance from Ranney Robotics Advisor Chiara Shah. Upper School Robotics students will be serving as referees and scoring volunteers, along with volunteers from Garden State Robotics, which runs VEX events in New Jersey.  

Students will compete in the state VEX IQ championship on Sunday, December 13. Ranney's Upper School team will be competing November 15 at Rowan University and December 12 at Monroe Twp High School. Ranney will host its next robotics competition on Saturday January 16. 

Follow our robotics teams at www.ranneyschool.org/robotics

Read a related article in Community Magazine's December 2015 issue.


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