Notre Dame’s VEX IQ Robotics teams (Bumble Bees) again earned big wins over the weekend when four of the school's six VEX teams won an opportunity to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship, April 15-18, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Saturday's event, which was a combined event for elementary schools and middle schools, was held at Cranbrook's middle school in Bloomfield Hills.
Two of the Bumble Bees teams also won the "Excellence Award," which is presented to the best overall team from each division. The Bees also won the Robot Skills Award, the Programming Skills Award and a Judges Award for creativity.
In the VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams from around the world in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test on the playing field as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels; local champions go on to compete against the best in the world at the VEX Robotics World Championship each April.
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Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.