This is my second time to be apart of the Vex Robotics Competition. The first experience was scary, but the second was absolutely unforgettable and memorable of my first time having to compete with all girls members of our team.
February 3rd was the competition date. It was such an incredible experience where we met about 19 others different teams from Thailand, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan. We were one of the teams from Liger whose chosen to represent our school and our country, Cambodia.
The game this year is called Vex cone in the zone, meaning we are earning points by putting the cones on to mobile goal or stationary or by putting mobile goals into different point zone. The game wasn’t that easy since that was our experience.
We were having 1 practice round and 5 qualifying matches. During the qualifying matches, we won in a total of three games and lost by small points in two games. In which we were ranked to be in the 11th placed out of 21 teams.
However, a team from Kazakhstan and a team from Thailand was honored to invite us to be their alliance in which they were the top 1st place and 2nd place of the whole competition, therefore we automatically got into the semi-final. Because of winning the semi-finalized match, we got into the final round and in which we won the whole game with our two alliances.
By the end of the competition, we won one of the trophies which were awarded on the winning three teams of the whole competition. This one experience has taught me and show me the importance of technology and how have technology like the robot could help us, students learn.