{"id":2169,"date":"2024-12-04T12:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:53:12","slug":"wallace-middle-school-competes-in-robotics-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/2024\/12\/04\/wallace-middle-school-competes-in-robotics-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace Middle School Competes in Robotics Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Four MPISD robotics teams representing P.E. Wallace Middle School competed in the VEX IQ Middle School tournament on Wednesday, November 20 at the Region 8 Education Service Center. The competition featured 48 teams of middle school students from the surrounding area. In the VEX IQ competition, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play with other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. This year\u2019s challenge involves driving the robot to pick up a ball, passing the ball to their partner team, and shooting the ball into a net for points.<\/h3>\n<h3>At the end of the qualification matches, Wallace Team 3 advanced to the final round. Wallace Team 3 members were Carter Cameron, Thatcher Drange, Gavin Williams, Lane Richardson, and David Adame.<\/h3>\n<h3>Also competing were Wallace Team 1 (Sebastian Sheppard, Kael Aleman, Braxton Arnold, Milan Medina, and Hatzael Antolin), Wallace Team 2 (Samuel Erickstad, Isaac Gomez, Kaiden Barber, Karter Fields, and Joshuah Antonio), and Wallace Team 4 (Kezia Williams, Tana Contreras, Paisely Hamilton, and Allison Castaneda).<\/h3>\n<h3>The MPISD Robotics teams will compete again in Sulphur Springs on December 7. They are coached by Tara Flores, Jack Jones, and Jamie King.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photos:<\/h3>\n<h3>1: Wallace Team 3 member Carter Cameron (left) drives the robot as Thatcher Drange and Lane Richardson watch<\/h3>\n<h3>2: Wallace Team 4 member Kezia Williams (right) passes the ball while team members Paisley Hamilton, Allison Castaneda, and Tana Contreras (L to R) look on<\/h3>\n<h3>3: Paisley Hamilton (left) and Allison Castaneda make adjustments to their robot before the matches begin<\/h3>\n<h3>4: Wallace Team 3 members Thatcher Drange (left) and Gavin Williams discuss strategy<\/h3>\n<h3>5: Wallace Team 2 member Samuel Erickstad (left) attempts to capture the ball as (L to R) Karter Fields, Joshuah Antonio, and Kaiden Barber cheer him on<\/h3>\n<h3>6: Wallace Team 1 members Kael Aleman (left) and Sebastian Sheppard set up to take a shot at the net<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four MPISD robotics teams representing P.E. Wallace Middle School competed in the VEX IQ Middle School tournament on Wednesday, November 20 at the Region 8 Education Service Center. The competition featured 48 teams of middle school students from the surrounding area. In the VEX IQ competition, teams of students are tasked with designing and building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/wallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}