The Township High School District 214 Robotics Team is headed to the First Robotics World Championship in Houston, district officials announced in a news release.
According to the release, the WildStang robotics team, which includes students from throughout the six-schools district, built a robot that collects cones and cubes. WildStang Team 111 recently won first place at the Midwest Regional FIRST robotics competition at the University of Illinois Chicago and also at the Seven Rivers Regional in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The world championship event is planned for April 19 to April 22.
Team 111, WildStang, now holds the rank of No. 4 in the world among more than 3,000 teams, after finishing in first place out of 56 teams in the Seven Rivers competition, according to the release. Earning a 9-1 record in the preliminary rounds before going 5-0 in elimination rounds, Team 111 also won the autonomous award for best programming of the robot in the first 15 seconds of the match, district officials said.
WildStang Team 112, which includes freshmen and sophomores, finished the preliminaries in Wisconsin with a 5-5 record, earning 21st place. The team finished 2-2 in elimination matches and also won the excellence in engineering award, the release states.
In addition to the robotics team, a Buffalo Grove High School junior won the National Scholastic Bowl Individual Player Championship Tournament April 2 in Rosemont, district officials said.
Rohan Ganeshan took the top spot after competing with 200 other students in the championship, officials said in the news release. Ganeshan is a member of the Buffalo Grove Scholastic Bowl team which is ranked No. 3 overall in the nation, district officials said. The team has won the national tournament, hosted by National Academic Quiz Tournaments, for the last two years in a row and was also named the Illinois High School Association Regional Champion.
According to the release, the team will now be competing in the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament Memorial Day weekend.