Senior VEX Robotics Team Prepares for Weekend Competition
This season, the Senior Robotics Team is competing in a new league: VEX Robotics. Over the fall term, the team started off by reviewing this year’s game titled High Stakes. The game has multiple elements, including scoring rings on mobile goal posts and climbing a vertical structure. After discussing the game in detail, the team brainstormed what elements they wanted to focus on and how to execute them. They learned how to create 3D models of possible robot designs before settling on one and ordering the parts they needed.
From there the team started to build. They split up into groups: one group started from scratch to create a robot that is able to pick up and move goal posts. This bot can also intake rings and score them on the goal post that it is holding. The second group was hard at work retrofitting the chassis of an old VEX robot and turning it into a climbing robot. This group worked on removing the unnecessary parts and replacing them with parts more suited to this year’s game. Meanwhile, some students also designed a new robotics logo and made custom t-shirts for the team to wear at their upcoming competition.
The groups explored how to use different tools, how to design the robot, and how to code the robot. They learned how to think outside of the box and ask questions in order to give their team the biggest advantage possible without breaking the rules of the game. Through teamwork, problem solving, and lots of initial failures the team has made some amazing bots.
This weekend, the Senior Robotics Team is headed to Markham to compete at the Caution Tape VEX V5 Robotics Competition Halloween Qualifier. On Saturday, November 2nd, our students will play VEX High Stakes in competition with 60 teams from across Ontario. Wish us luck - Go Cyclones!
Land Acknowledgment
The Country Day School wishes to recognize and acknowledge the land on which the school operates. Our nearest Indigenous Nations are now the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Chippewas of Georgina Island. The Dish with One Spoon Wampum covenant is often cited as an example of the shared responsibility for caring for these lands among the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples who would call these their traditional territories. CDS respects the relationship with these lands and recognizes that our connection to this land can be strengthened by our continued relationship with all First Nations, by acknowledging our shared responsibility to respect and care for the land and waters for future generations.
School Information
Junior, Middle and Senior Schools
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
