I thought you might be interested that the "Rubies", a FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics team consisting of six 9th and 10th grade Southwest students, had a tremendous showing at a qualifying tournament in Eden Prairie this past Saturday.
The team's robot went undefeated in preliminary rounds, giving them the opportunity to lead an alliance into the playoffs. Their alliance then defeated all comers in the playoffs to become tournament champions.
The Rubies also won the first place "Inspire" award, given to the top overall team based on outreach, design, build, their engineering notebook, and judging interviews. It's rare for the same team to win both the Inspire and robot rounds.
Based on this result they'll compete at the State tournament in February (after another preliminary tournament in North Branch in January).
The Rubies consist of 10th graders Izzy Mack, Ava Kian, Isabella Kemling, Adelaide Fanner and 9th graders Rachel Springer and Mitra Kian.
For photos or to see what they've been up to check out their Twitter feed, https://twitter.com/ftc_rubies.
Thanks,
Colin
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