Quinn Wolf ‘12

Three Jesuit VEX teams traveled to Houston last weekend, November 19 and 20, 2011, to compete in the Veteran Division of the 2011 VEX Houston Robotics Competition.  This fall’s competition let robots pick up spheres and barrels and put them in circular goals of various heights.  The game also involves lots of strategy as there are objects that can...

This fall, the Jesuit Robotics Club built a t-shirt canon that they debuted at Ranger Day before putting it in action at the Homecoming football game and the bi-district playoff game. The robotics club excited the Ranger Day crowd on the canon’s maiden run. After some air pressure misjudgments caused a couple of t-shirts to land in the river behind...

The Jesuit Robotics team is back this year 2011-2012 for another season of building robots and traveling to competitions.  Coming off the most successful year in the club’s 4-year history, hopes are high for another entry into the FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) World Championship this year.  As we prepare for the nonstop excitement...

The robotics club had its first FRC competition last weekend. This year’s challenge involves the robots picking up inflated tubes in the shapes of triangles, circles, and squares and placing them on horizontal pegs on a wall. The bonus challenge was to make a mini-robot (that’s exactly what it sounds like) race other minibots to climb a 9-foot pole. Patrick Barone...

The Jesuit Robotics Club has been a part of the Jesuit tradition for three years now.  We travel as far as Atlanta, Georgia and San Antonio, Texas, to compete against high school students from around the world.  We make t-shirt cannons and help with Chariot-building at Ranger Day.  This year we are beginning a new tradition with the Santa...