Things are looking pretty VEXY at LYR

Welcome back to the Robotics blog. It's been a quiet couple of months since Robonautica, and we've all been taking a few deep breaths and trying to recharge the batteries. ( not the robots batteries, ours!)

Things haven't stopped completely up at World Headquarters though. Things are looking pretty VEXY down at the other end of the building. The High School VEX teams have been competing and practicing over the last month and a half and have amassed a few more pieces of hardware for the trophy case. Leominster teams took 3 of the top 4 spots in the CT VEX championships last month. LHS took home the Programming award and the Champions award. The teams are taking one more week to tweak their bots, before they head down to Maryland to take on a couple hundred teams from all over the country at the Mid Atlantic VEX Championships being held in Westminster Maryland February 25th -27th. Yours Truly will be wielding the microphone as the emcee for some of the tournament!!!

At the same time in Worcester at the MA Middle school VEX Championships, the Jr Devil Dawgs of LYR were dominating the competition as they took home the Champions award and the Engineering award.

New to the VEX scene are the Geared Gators, fresh off of their successful Lego Robotics season, they are now trying their hand at VEX. The robot is built, programmed, and ready to compete. The team of 5th and 6th graders will be competing at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston next month against all High School teams. They will then be competing the very next week at Quinsigamond Community College in the Middle School New England Championships.


Down at the quiet end of the hallway, the 2009 Lego season is behind us and work is being done on the facility to make sure that the 2010 season is even better. Rooms are being re-arranged, new tables are being built, and we are doing our best to upgrade the technology that will be available to the teams.

We are working diligently to try to raise the necessary funds to keep the program running at the level we all would like to see it run. Grants are being applied for and corporate sponsors are being sought.

I'll post the tournament info from Maryland as it happens. Until then, keep on roboting, and we'll see you soon!