Bryant Hornet Engineering Robotics team may be headed back to the World Championships in California after capturing the state robotics competition on Saturday in Russellville. The BHS team also captured the design award and Nick Gatlin earned the best driver award.
The team qualified at the 2014 VEX Robotics World Championship in the high school division in Anaheim, Calif., April 23-26.
Members of the team, pictured above, are, kneeling from left, Rex Hearn and Kaitlyn Baldwin; second row, Sarah Anderson, Ryan West, Harshdeep (Sonny) Uppal, Nick Gatlin; third row, Grant Hearn, Dylan Wilcox; standing, PLTW Pre-engineering instructor Debbie Norris, Tim King, Buddy Williams, John Williams, Isaiah Stefan, Joshua Lawson, and Alex Kirchner.
According to Norris, “Bryant Middle School fielded two teams and did a great job as well, especially for their first venture into robotics competition.”
Jason Price is the instructor at Bryant Middle School.
A video of the competition has been loaded online at http://youtu.be/caseEFQZqx9w
