Jay County Robotics - Competition Blog

VEX World Championship Update: Thursday

4/16/2015

11193 Update:

The General Shanks team finished the day with a total score of 117 points and were ranked 68th of 90 teams. They have also completed multiple runs on the skills field. They will have 8 more matches between Friday and Saturday morning.

1184A Update:

The combined East Jay / West Jay Middle School team finished the day with a 0-3 record. They had some tough luck with some partners who had mechanical issues during the match. They will have 7 more matches between Friday and Saturday morning.

Indiana State Championships (VEX IQ and VRC)

3/7/2015

February 28th – IUPUI

VEX IQ Elementary State Championships

The General Shanks Elementary team competed at the VEX IQ State Championships on February 28th. They finished the day with a total score of 401 points and were ranked 15th at the tournament. With this performance, they qualified themselves for the VEX IQ Elementary World Championships!

March 7th – Warren Central High School

VRC State Championship

Jay County Robotics had 5 teams compete at the VRC Indiana State Championships. 1184A had a record of 6-1-0 and won the middle school Design Award that qualifies them for the World Championship, they were also quarter finalists. 1193A had a record of 5-2-0 and were quarter finalists. 1193C had a record of 2-5-0 and were quarter finalists. 1193D had a record of 1-6-0 and did not make the tournament. 1193W had a record of 2-4-1 and did not make the tournament.

1184A and 11193 will be representing Jay County Robotics at the VEX World Championships on April 15-18 in Louisville, KY!

Warren VEX IQ Highrise Elementary Only Tournament 2

2/21/2015

Jay County Robotics elementary school VEXIQ teams competed at the Warren VEX IQ Highrise Elementary Only Tournament 2 held at Stoneybrook Middle School in Indianapolis, Indiana.

11193 qualified in second place with 410 points. 11194 qualified in 8th place with 266 points. In the elimination rounds, 11193 were paired up with a team from Greenwood and they won the tournament with a score of 96 points. 11194 was in the elimination rounds with a team from Indian Creek Elementary and finished in 5th place with a score of 29 points.

11193 is now qualified for the Indiana VEX IQ Elementary State Championship! It will take place on February 28th at IUPUI. We will have the Facebook account follow them that day and bring you updates as the competition happens.

Crown Point Qualifier #2

2/7/2015

Jay County Robotics competed at the second Crown Point competition of the year. It was held at Timothy Ball Elementary in Crown Point, Indiana.

7515B lead all Jay County Robotics teams with a record of 6-1-0 and qualified 4th. 1193A qualified in 8th place with a record of 5-2-0. 1193W qualified in 11th place with a record of 4-3-0. 1184A qualified 16th with a record of 3-4-0. 1193C qualified 19th with a record of 3-4-0. 7515A qualified in 24th place with a record of 2-5-0.

All of the Jay County Robotics teams made the elimination round! 7515B partnered up with two teams from Plymouth High School and ended up being Finalists in the tournament, losing to the number two seeded alliance. 7515A partnered up with a team from Batavia, Illinois and Crown Point and lost in the quarter-final round. 1193A and 1184A partnered up with 1001C from Greentown and won the entire tournament from the second seeded position! 1193C and 1193W partnered up with a team from Lutheran High School in Indianapolis, they took their quarter-final round to 3 matches, but lost. 1193A and 1184A faced off against 7515B in the final round, where 1193A/1184A/1001C won in two matches.

Jay County Robotics brought the VEXIQ teams with us this weekend. 11193 qualified 10th with a total score of 291 points, they made the elimination round and finished in 3rd place! 11194 qualified 19th with 169 points, they also made the elimination rounds and finished in 8th place. The VEX IQ teams will compete at the Warren Central Qualifier #2 competition on February 21st.

This was the last qualifying event that Jay Country Robotics planned to attend before State. We will be competition at State on March 7th at Warren Central High School. In the meantime, we will be practicing and making changes to the robots so that we can go and bring home the state title!

Warsaw State Qualifier

1/24/2015

The Jay County Robotics teams went to Warsaw High School at the inaugural Warsaw State Qualifier competition. We helped Warsaw to set up the event and run the event. We had another great weekend!

We brought three middle school teams to this event; 1184A, 7515A and 7515B. The 1184A team, a combined Jay Co middle school teams, finished with a record of 3-2-0 and qualified 9th. The 7515A team, from West Jay, finished with a record of 2-2-1 and qualified 21st. The 7515B team, a combined middle school and high school team, finished with a record of 1-4-0 and qualified 33rd.

There were three JCHS teams competing at this event; 1193A, 1193C and 1193W. The A team finished with a record of 4-1 and qualified 4th. The C team finished with a record of 4-1 and qualified 5th. The W team finished with a record of 3-2 and qualified 14th.

In the elimination tournament, 1193A partnered up with 1001C from Greentown and 1233C from Crown Point, they won the tournament. 1193W and 7515B joined forces with 1233B and were quarter-finalists, losing to the 1193A alliance in the quarters. 1184A paired up with 323B from Greenwood and 491P from Royal Center, they were quarter-finalists. 7515A paired up with 5003 from Plymouth and 323G from Greenwood, they were semi-finalists, and lost to the alliance of 1193C. 1193C paired up with 1233E and 1233A from Crown Point, they were tournament runners up and lost to the 1193A alliance.

We will be competing at Crown Point in a week. Stay tuned for updates!

Jay County Dual Competition

1/17/2015

The Jay County Robotics teams hosted the first ever “Dual” competition this past weekend. This event was special because we host two totally separate events at the same venue, on the same day. One of the competitions was more geared towards middle school teams and the other competition was geared towards the high school teams.

Our middle school teams competed at the “West Jay” event that was held in the commons. Team 1184A ended qualifying with a record of 6-0 and qualified second. They went in to the eliminations with partners from Greenwood and Indianapolis. They dominated their way through the Quarterfinal and Semifinal rounds. In the finals they had to play 3 matches to determine the tournament winner, they won! The two West Jay teams paired up together for the elimination rounds with their third partner coming from Greenwood. They dominated their Quarterfinal round, but took on the other Jay County team in the Semifinals where they lost. This matched both teams best result of the year. 7515A qualified 7th and 7515B qualified 20th. 1184A (the combined EJMS and WJMS team) won both of the skills competitions!

All of the Jay County High School teams competed in the auxiliary gym. 1193A qualified 1st, 1193W qualified 8th and 1193C qualified 14th. In the eliminations, 1193A and 1193C partnered with a group from Zionsville. They had a hard fought battle through the elimination tournament and made it to the semifinals. 1193W was picked by a team from Greenwood and a team from Zionsville. They also made it to the semifinals.

All of the VEX Robotics Competition teams will be getting ready for the Warsaw competition this week and will compete on January 24th.

Warren Qualifying Event #1

12/6/2014

The Jay County Robotics teams competed at the Warren Central Qualifier #1 in December. This event was held at a middle school in Indianapolis. We took all of our teams except for 1193C that could not attend the trip due to activities at home. We also brought the VEX IQ teams to compete for the first time!

The IQ teams did very well for their first competition. Our two teams from Portland elementary schools qualified 8th and 31st. The 8th place team (11193) scored a total of 206 points during their qualifying rounds and 11194 scored a total of 148 points in their qualifying rounds. 11193 got to compete in the final rounds where they ended up getting 8th place in the 50 team tournament with a score of 50. This was a great start for the youngsters in our development program.

THE VRC teams in attendance were 1193A, 1193D, 1193W and 1184A. After qualifying they qualified as follows, 1193A 13th, 1193W 22nd, 1184A 30th and 1193D 59th. 1193A and 1184A were the only two Jay County teams to make the elimination tournament. 1193A was with teams from Crown Point and Greenwood and 1184A was with teams from Crown Point and Batavia, Illinois. They faced off in the quarterfinal round and 1193A’s alliance was victorious. 1193A went on to dominate their way through the semifinal round. In the final’s 1193A took the final round to three matches and came out victorious.

We will take Christmas break off and got prepared for the events in January and February.

Jay County All Star Event

11/15/2014

The Jay County Robotics teams hosted a competition on November 15th. There were teams from Indiana and Ohio competing at this event. Our teams come in to this event having swept all tournaments this season; hopes were high to keep this going.

At the conclusion of the qualifying rounds, 1193A sat atop the leader board with a record of 6-0, the combined middle school team (1184A) finished qualifying in second with a record of 6-0. The other teams did well also, 1193C finished qualifying with a 5-1 record and claimed the 4th spot. The West Jay Middle School team (7515A) finished with a record of 5-1 and qualified 6th. 1193W finished with a record of 3-3, claiming the 16th spot, and 1193D finished with a record of 2-4, getting the 28th spot.

When it came to the alliance selection round, the Jay teams wanted to keep the tournament win streak alive. 1193A led off the alliance selection by choosing their alliance to be 1193A, 1193C and 1193W, in hopes to get 1193W qualified for the State tournament. The second alliance lead by 1184A (the combined middle school team) paired up with a team from Crown Point and a team from Warsaw. The West Jay team chose to play with a team from Zionsville and a team from Greenwood. 1193D found themselves in a place where they were chosen by a different school to play in the tournament. They were picked up by an alliance from Crown Point and Rushlyvania, Ohio.

The tournament had the 1184A alliance playing the alliance including 1193D; the youngster alliance knocked off the high school team in the quarter finals. The combined middle school team went to the semifinals and lost a hard fought series to the eventual tournament runners up. The West Jay squad faced a tough alliance in their quarter final matches, and did not move on. The A team alliance easily won their quarter and semifinal rounds, leaving the two best alliances to battle it out to crown a champion in the finals. The finals went to a decisive third finals match. They won with a score of 49-41. During the tournament, the A team alliance scored an Indiana high score of 73 points.

Award winners for the Jay County teams were the winning alliance of 1193A, 1193C and 1193W. 1193W is now qualified for the State Championship. The combined middle school team won another Excellence award for their continued dominance in the middle school division.

Crown Point Competition 1

11/9/2014

The Jay County Robotics teams competed at the Crown Point competition on Saturday November 8th in Crown Point, Indiana. The teams came in with high hopes of continuing their recent success, they would not disappoint.

The top qualifier at the end of the qualification rounds was 1193C, last week’s winner, with a record of 7-0, extending their win streak to 19 consecutive match wins. The second ranked team was 1193A, also a winner from a week ago, with a record of 6-1. 1184A (a middle school team with a combined roster of East Jay and West Jay students) finished qualifying in the 4th spot with a record of 6-1. They were also the team last week who swept all the major awards (winners, Excellence and Design). Team 1193D finished in the 10th spot with a record of 5-2 and the other Jay County High School team 1193D ended up 14th with a record of 3-4. The West Jay squad (7515A) finished qualifying with a 2-5 record and a 19th ranking.

When the elimination rounds started, the Jay County teams wanted to keep the Jay County pride strong and pair up with each other. 1193C and 1193D paired up with a team from Plymouth to take on the tournament. Last week’s winners, 1193A and 1184A joined forces again and brought a long a team from Zionsville to round out their alliance. 1193W picked up the West Jay team (7515A) in the first round of the draft and rounded out their alliance with another Plymouth team.

The elimination rounds were fierce, seeing the final round (the 1193C and 1193D alliance versus the 1193A and 1184A alliance) go to extra matches after splitting the first two matches and tying in the third. In the fourth finals match, the alliance of 1193C and 1193D came out victorious in a 49-33 victory. With the win, 1193D has now qualified for the Indiana State Championships in March (joining 1184A, 1193A and 1193C). The alliance of 1193W and 7515A had a hard fought battle in the semi-finals where they eventually lost to the alliance lead by 1193A.

When it came time for the final awards, the Jay County teams were already excited, but the awards added a whole new reason for the excitement. Team 1193C was announced as the Excellence Award winner, the highest award available in the VEX Robotics Competition. They will now compete for the Excellence Award at the State Championships.

Jay County will be hosting a competition at the Jay County High School Auxiliary Gym on Saturday November 15th. The event is free and open to the public and begins at 9am. Feel free to stop in and see the great machines that these Jay county students have created!

K.I.D.S. Inc. Competition

11/6/2014

Indiana Robotics held their 2nd event of the season at K. I. D. S. Inc. in Indianapolis this past Saturday. They had 33 teams sign up for the event.Zionsville had a strong showing, bringing 9 teams and one returning team that placed at Worlds last year. Indiana has 265 VEX Robotic teams this so far year.

Jay County came away with 5 of the 6 trophies and winning 4 more State spots. VEX has awarded 7 spots to the VEX State Championship and Jay County owns all seven of the VEX State robotics spots, split with three of their teams.

1193C came in second in the Qualifying round and headed the winning Alliance to win the Championship. They selected 1184A, who came in 3rd place, the Middle School Team made of students from East Jay and West Jay. Then with their 3rd selection they picked up 1193A last week’s Alliance Captains. The combined Jay County Team went through the championship round without a loss!

1193C team is made up with Seniors Evan Thomas, Tyler Munday and Nathanael Miller. Along with Junior Tristen Willis. 1193C dominated the day with their autonomous as well as being the only team that could build the complete “Sky-Rise” section.

1184A made up of two East Jay 6th grade students; Leah Hummel and Trevor Alicea, they picked up West Jay 7th grader Cody Knisely who helped solidify the team. They came up with the Design Award, Excellence Award, and where on the winning alliance with the other two Jay County Teams. They also place 3rd in the qualifying rounds. 1184A has been the only middle school team at the 1st two VEX events. The Excellence award is the highest award given at a VEX event. It has everything to do with how they did in the “Skills” events, scoring a 2nd in Programming and 10th in the Driving skills. With a good placing in their interview about their engineering notebook competing against all High Schools teams. By combining all of their scores they out placed all of the High School teams at this Event. With them wining the Excellence award at this level they are able to compete in this category at Worlds against Middle Schoolers, if they can make it out of the State Tournament in March.

1193A did the same thing last week walking away with all three of the same awards that 1184A did this week. Being picked as the third team in an all Jay County alliance in the championship. 1193A is made up of Brain DeRome, Seth Trissel, Tiffany, Robinette, Adrian Hudson, and Jade Zorn.

Jay County has two more high school teams and two more middle school teams to get qualified for the State Tournament. Both of the high school teams were selected in Championship round. This weekend they will go to Crown Point to compete. Then on November 15th we are hoping to have a big event at Jay County. With another VEX event held the same week in Indianapolis for Indianapolis schools only.

Jay County Robotics has decided not to compete in FIRST robotics this year. With teams already in the VEX State Tournament we will need to explore additional fundraising opportunities in the community. If you would like to schedule a demonstration or an opportunity to hear from the team about Jay County Robotics to your group or organization, please contact Doug Tipton at Jay County High School to get on their calendar this school year. You can also call him after school on his cell phone (260) 726-5096. Please note that Jay Schools are in a transition period on changing servers for their email accounts, if you have emailed Jay County Robotics and have not gotten a response, please call or try again!

As you can tell from the picture below, of all of the Jay County Robotics students that went last weekend, we have the largest number of female students that participate in robotics in the State of Indiana. We are right at 33% female students. We have had some good role models in the past. We have had a good participation of students that will continue in 4-year degree programs, tech schools, 2-year degree programs, military service, and/or going straight to the work force. For more information contact Jay County Robotics. Please call us with your ideas and your help.