Over a year ago, Washington Catholic’s Ethan Armstrong, Jace Hammer and Kaden Yonce started working on their team robot for this season’s VEX Robotics contests. They tweaked designs. Changed the coding to run THE CARDINAL multiple times, rewrote manuals and have spent countless hours finding ways to have a edge over the other teams they face.
“We started working on this robot right after Worlds last year,” said Armstrong, who said VEX releases the challenge for the competition year at the conclusion of the world championships.
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