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SEGway News
Serving South East Grant County
Volume 1, Number 32
A Good News Ventures publication
May 11-17, 2017
Local robotics team competes in world championships
Thirty-five students and
mentors from PhyXTGears
Team 1720, including four
from Upland, traveled to
St. Louis, Missouri, to
compete
in the World
Championships of FIRST
(For Inspiration and Rec-
ognition of Science and
Technology)
Robotics,
making it to the quarter-
finals in the elimination
rounds on their division
field, Curie, named after
scientist Madame Marie
Curie.
Leaving
Wednesday,
April 25th, in several vans
and pulling two trailers,
the team headed for the
Arch with big dreams for
the tournament. “We want-
ed to at least make it into
the elimination rounds in
our division,” team Presi-
dent Shawn Van Ness said
of the team’s goals going
into the event.
The team did not let him
down.
After two days of quali-
fication matches, PhyXT-
Gears ranked 26th out of
68 teams playing in their
division. Only 32 of those
teams made it to the divi-
sion finals after the top
eight teams each chose
three other teams to play
with them on a solid alli-
ance. 1720 was chosen as
an alliance mate by 8th
seeded Team 71, the Beast,
from Hammond, Indiana.
Part of the experience of
the competition was com-
peting with and against
teams from all over the
world. One team PhyXT-
Gears played with was
from France. “It was amaz-
ing to work with other
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