TUSD Robotics teams have soared to the top of the competition winning numerous tournaments and awards during the qualification season. Several of our teams qualified multiple times for the CA State Championships and we sent a total of 23 teams to compete in these events held throughout the state.

Southern California is known to be one of the most competitive regions for VEX and VEX IQ Robotics. Our teams faced fierce competition at every CA State Championship and did remarkably well, taking home 2 tournament championship titles, 3 Excellence Awards, 4 Design Awards, and 2 Robot Skills championship titles. This proves that we are building well-rounded teams who not only excel at building and driving robots but also at documenting their design process and writing programs for their robots to score points autonomously.

In the end, TUSD Robotics teams earned a total of 20 awards at the CA State Championships and 11 invitations to the World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky.

Congratulations to all the teams who are moving on to the next round of competition!

Beckman Robopatties

Team R- Design Award (San Diego Championship)

Team Y- Excellence Award and Tournament Champion (San Diego Championship)

Foothill Knight Time Bots

Team A- Tournament Finalist & Robot Skills Champion (LA State Championship)

Team X- Tournament Champion & Robot Skills Champion (Bakersfield Championship)

Team B- Invitation to Worlds: From Robot Skills Score (San Diego Championship)

Orchard Hills Middle School

Team A- Excellence Award (Bakersfield Championship)

Team B- Tournament Champion & Design Award (San Diego Championship)

Team D- Excellence Award (San Diego Championship)

Orchard Hills Elementary

Team H- Design Award (San Diego Championship)

Tustin Memorial Elementary

Team A- STEM Research Project Award (Paso Robles Championship)

Team B- Design Award (Paso Robles Championship)

Non-Qualifying Awards

We would also like to acknowledge the other awards won at the CA State Championship by TUSD Robotics teams. Unfortunately, these awards do not qualify the teams for the World Championships but we are proud of your accomplishments just the same!

Beckman High School

Team X- Sportsmanship Award (San Diego Championship)

Columbus Tustin Middle School

Team C- Amaze Award (Los Angeles Championship)

Foothill High School

Team B- Think Award (San Diego Championship)

Orchard Hills Middle School

Team E- Amaze Award & Robot Skills Champion (Bakersfield Championship)

Orchard Hills Elementary School

Team Z- Sportsmanship Award (San Diego Championship)

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation offers students a chance to compete in other categories throughout the season with online challenges. For the first time, TUSD Robotics has two students from Beckman Robopatties who placed as finalists.

Devin Ho won the 3D Printer Bonus Prize for the CAD Engineering Challenge. The video of his V5 Mounting System can be found below.

VanAnh Nguyen and her other team members David Seo, Devin Ho, Jessica Duong, Kaelyn Pieter, Alan Onuma, Emma Jung, and Kelly Zhou won 3rd place and $250 for their Girl Powered Online Challenge sponsored by Google.

Congratulations Beckman Robopatties!