Keystone Oaks Hosts Western PA Robotics
Championships
Hundreds of middle and high school
students and their engineered robots
arrived on Keystone Oaks’ campus on
March 10 to compete in the Western PA
Robotics Championships and for the
opportunity to showcase their robot’s
skills on the international stage. The
winning teams will compete in the
worldwide competition in Louisville,
Kentucky at the end of April. This year’s
winners were:
• Excellence Award - New Castle Area
School District (High School) &
Marshall Middle School (North
Allegheny School District)
• Tournament Champions - Jersey Shore
Area High School, Sarah Heinz House
and Forest Hills Area High School
• Design Award - Bermudian Springs
High School
• Teamwork Champion Award - Two
teams from Pittsburgh Urban Christian
School
Students spent months building
and fine tuning their robots and
qualified to compete in the Robotics
Championships either by earning
a spot as one of the top six teams
in a qualification tournament, or
by winning a Design or Excellence
Award, which is awarded to teams
who demonstrate excellence in
robot design through a rigorous
documentation process.
The robots competed in a
ringmaster challenge, which requires
two robots to work together to toss
rings onto tripod posts of various
heights. There are two additional
challenges, one that requires the robot
to work autonomously to toss the
rings onto the post and another that
requires the robot to work under driver
control.
The Robotics Championship event
was organized by Keystone Oaks High
School Technology Education Teacher
Jeff Oestreich, the Robotics Education
& Competition Foundation, and Vex
Robotics.
Keystone Oaks Announces Winners of
Inaugural Diversity Expression Contest
Keystone Oaks School District is proud to announce the winners of the District’s
inaugural Diversity Expression Contest. This year’s contest was open to all
students in grades k-12 and invited them to submit a writing or work of art that
depicted the theme -
“Celebrating our individual differences that make us proud to be part of one
Keystone Oaks Community.”
More than 75 poems, essays, drawings and posters were submitted and the
following entries were selected as winners in this year’s contest:
• Mikayla Staab - Eighth Grade, Keystone Oaks Middle School. Essay, “Proud to
be a KO student.”
• Alya Mittal - First Grade, Fred L. Aiken Elementary. Personal Narrative, “Foreign
Land, Local Love.” Drawing, “My KO, My World - Where Everyone’s Welcome.”
• Amina Babajanov - Second Grade, Fred L. Aiken Elementary. Drawing, “Our
Differences.”
• Mary Paulick - Second Grade, Dormont Elementary. Essay, “Diversity.”
• Sophia Paulick - Fourth Grade, Dormont Elementary. Poem, “Diversity Because
of KO.”
• Meghan Anderson - Second Grade, Dormont Elementary. Diversity Poem.
• Ariana Arzyaga - Second Grade, Dormont Elementary. Diversity Acrostic Poem.
• Rayyan Barakat - Kindergarten, Aiken Elementary. Poster.
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