On Monday, HANC Middle School sent five teams of students to compete in the CIJE (Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education) Inter-Yeshiva annual Vex Robotics Tournament at the Port Washington Armory. Over the course of the school year, each team built a highly sophisticated robot with a large arm that can be manipulated into several positions. Nine tournament fields were spread throughout the room, and each team participated in seven matches. At each field, teams would navigate their own robot through a maze of objects, retrieving objects and moving them to designated places on the field.
All of our teams performed well and enjoyed a healthy competitive atmosphere with the teams from other yeshivos. It must be noted that the team of Nili Brukner, Noa Kaye, Shayna Wunder, and Ariella Leibowitz, ranked Fourth out of the 117 teams competing!
