February 29, 2024

Above: North Union Robotics Team members from NUMS VEX IQ team 28102A - Fire Gals earned the Middle School Design Award last weekend at Mapleton High School. Pictured from left are Allison Poling, Leah Conrad, Alyse Burmester and Hailey Nace. Below: NUMS team 4810G - G-Force load tri-balls into their robot during a match. Pictured from left are Wyatt Roby and Colton Smith. (Photos submitted)

NU Robotics advance to state and world championship events

Editor’s note: This information was supplied by North Union Robotics.

The 2023-2024 competition season is wrapping up for our robotics teams, but several North Union teams will advance to the next level of play. North Union’s 23 competitive teams, ranging from fourth grade through high school, have been working on designing, building, and programming robots, as well as documenting the entire process in their engineering notebooks since last summer. The competition season has proven extremely successful for North Uni…

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