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Game Rules

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First Challenge

We are so exited to compete in our first challenge in South Orange New Jersey on 10/31/15. Our robot is all ready for competing. We will post the scores, so be sure to come back and see the results.

UPDATE:

We won

Excellence Award

Teamwork Finalist Award

Programming Skills Champion Award

And Robot Skills Champion Award

God gave Team 13 The Rogue Squadron a great success.

We also came in 2nd place in the finals.

Second Challenge

Our second challenge is at Quakertown Christian School on 11/7/15 . Looking forward to another great competition! Be sure to come back and check out the results!

UPDATE:

We won

Excellence Award

Programming Skills Champion Award

Robot Skills Champion Award

and Design Award.

We came in 3rd place in the finals.

We give praise and thanks to God.

Third Challenge

Up next is our third challenge at Quakertown Christian School on 12/19/15 . Our batteries are charged and thumbs are ready!

UPDATE:

We won

Excellence Award

Teamwork Champion Award

Programming Skills Champion Award

Robot Skills Champion Award

and Design Award

We also came in 1st Place in the finals.

And again, thank you God for giving us success.

Fourth Challenge

Perkiomenville Mennonite Church will be our next destination on 1/9/16 . We are excited about our STEM presentation this year on biodigestion! You can cook your food on poop and waste!

UPDATE:

We won

Excellence Award

Programming Skills Champion Award

and STEM Research Project Award

We also came in 7th place.

We had some nail-biting moments with last minute scores! Our robot kept us on our toes by requiring maintenance during the finals. But, thanks to our mentor coach, we got our robot up and running, just in the nick of time!

We give thanks to God, for helping us through the victories and the challenges.

Fifth Challenge

The Rogue Squadron is all set and motors ready for the Knights' IQ Qualifier - 01/30/2016. Please wish us luck. May the Force be with you.

UPDATES:

Our team took the

Excellence Award and

Programming Award

We came in 5th in the finals. We are anxious to get our new robot built and score higher points!

Sixth Challenge

We are trying to build another robot before 02/06/16 because in the last couple of tournaments we were greatly challenged. So it is time to step up the game and build Rogue Squadron 2 (Rancor). If we do not finish building in time, I'm sure we will still do well.

UPDATES:

We won

Excellence Award

Teamwork Champion Award

And Programming Skills Champion Award

Our finals score was 74

God gave team 13 a good success.

Seventh Challenge

While our Rancor is still under construction, we got a little restless, so we packed up our working robot and headed off to Quakertown Christian School on 02/13/16.

UPDATES:

We won

Excellence Award

Teamwork Champion Award

Programming Skills Champion Award

Robot Skills Champion Award

And STEM Research Project Award

Our finals score was 77 points

Praise God for a great victory.

This was our best competition.

Robot News

This week we finished our high dumping robot (Rancor).

As of right now we are now practicing. Our high score so far is 84!

We will continue eating pizza, programming, strategizing, and driving to get ready to compete in the 2016 Pennsylvania State Championship - East - IQ on 03/12/16.

WE'RE GOING TO WORLD'S!!!

Rogue Squadron had an exciting day at the PA State East Competition! We had 9 runs, with a final qualifying score of 685! That took us to the number one spot entering the finals. Our finals match was run with 169X team from Haverford. We had a few minutes to run some strategy runs before our final match. Our final alliance score was 104!! This earned both our team and Haverford 169X a spot at 2016 VEX Worlds - VEX IQ Challenge Middle School Division !

Our team also excelled in other areas. We came home with the Robot Skills (score of 101), Programming (score of 74), Teamwork, and Excellence Awards.

We enjoyed talking with all the teams, helping each other out, walking around and looking at all the different STEM projects, watching the VRC tournament, and just having fun!

Check out our finals match video on Youtube:

Rogue Squadron 13/Haverford 169X Final Match

The Final Challenge: Worlds

We had so much fun at Worlds. Trying to speak to teams around the world ( like China) was a blast!

UPDATES:

Although we did not win anything it was still fun!

We came in 75th place out of 199 teams in teamwork,

36th place in Robot skills, and 8th place in PROGRAMMING !!!!!!

Do NOT forget we serve an almighty God that will take care of you even when times are rough.

Thanks for sticking with us and have a great summer.

If you are interested in joining the Rogue Squadron click here to join.

Next season we are moving up to VRC VEX ROBOTICS COMPETITION!!

Here is the new game we are going to be playing.