The Ratchet Rocker Robotics students will travel to Texas to compete in the FIRST Robotics World Championship April 16-20.
The team consists of the following North Point students: Andrew Sizemore, Daisy Wright, Donovan Wright, Evan Clayman, Noah Hall Boland, Pax Harrell, Peyton Meek, Alex Sutton and Jaxson Thompson.
“Being on Ratchet Rockers for three years has been an interesting experience,” Evan Clayman (’26) said. “I have been to Houston twice so far with the team and it has been an amazing experience so far. We get to see displays from Disney, race cars up close and we have even seen displays from NASA. I am very excited for this year’s attempt to win worlds. I think we will do very well.”
The team took second qualifiers and ended up winning it all in playoffs as the first pick of the first-seeded Alliance here at Chaifetz.
“It was very exhilarating,” Donavan Wright (’27) said. “The entire group was holding their breath waiting to see the score and when we were announced, it was so loud.”
The team took first in qualifiers and ended up winning it all in playoffs as the captain of the first-seeded Alliance in Iowa over spring break (UNI). In Iowa, they went undefeated and set a new high score of 223.
Currently, the team is ranked 26 out of the *3,690 that competed this year from all over the world and are ranked 20th overall out of the 2,927 teams in the USA. Out of the *600 teams that will be competing at worlds this year we are ranked 18th over all.
They currently have a Record of 28-2-0.
“Over the years, as I have been on this team as a student and a mentor, I have seen this team just get better and better,” Connor Fogarty, one of the mentors said.
Good luck at Worlds.