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NSU University School Robotics Team Continues to Excel
NSU University School Robotics Team
The NSU University School Robotics Team A won the Excellence Award, the Highest Driving Skill Award, and the Highest Programming Award at the VEX Robotics Competition: Nothing But Net. The tournament was the final regional tournament of the season before the Florida State Championship this month. The Robotics team started off the tournament season by winning the Excellence Award, the highest award at the VEX Florida Qualifier last October.
Robotic competitions have grown in popularity over the last few years as a result of an emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. The NSU University School is recognized as a leader of STEM-related education because its core curriculum encourages collaboration, innovation, problem-solving and creativity in all students. Consequently, the school’s robotics team is ranked the Number One Robotics Team in the state of Florida.
The VEX robotic competitions are the largest and most competitive robotics tournaments for students in middle and high school, with more than 10,000 teams from 32 countries. Each year, students are faced with an engineering challenge in the form of a game. Students, with guidance from their coaches and teachers, build innovative robots in small teams and participate in local, state and regional competitions. At each competition, teams play against each other in order to qualify for the VEX Robotics World Championship.