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This year during the spring and fell afterschool programs, students built robots. Second
and Third graders, learned to make games using a coding program called Scratch. The
older girls created more complex games and also learned JavaScript program to animate.
Students enjoyed learning robotics with the use o f Lego building sets and Vex IQ. The
beginners used simple and more complex legos, motors and a programmable brick to
make their creations come to life. The Fifth and Sixth graders used the Vex IQ kits,
learned to drive and program using Block programming and RobotC. These girls will be
ready to move on to the Vex competition program.

The VEX Robotics Competition presented an engineering challenge in the
form of a game, Startruclc, as the ultimate STEM activity for middle and high
school students. Students build innovative robots, driven by remote control and
computer programming, to score the most points possible. They learn many
academic and life skills: critical thinking, problem solving and teamwork. This
year the challenge was called The goal of the challenge was to attain a higher
score than the opposing alliance by scoring stars and cubes in respective zones
and by hanging robots on the hanging bar. Near the end o f the academic year, the Seventh graders completed their Engineering
curriculum by applying their acquired knowledge to plan, program, document, and
The VEX Robotics Team participated in a series of state qualifying tournaments showcase a NAO Humanoid Robot Sequence o f their choosing. Given one hour to plan
throughout the year organized by different schools in South Florida. Carrollton s and one hour to program, the students collaborated and diversified their skillsets to meet
VEX team won the Design Award qualifying them for the Florida State the challenge.
Championship. The team also competed at the Miami-Dade County Fair and
Exposition, where it ranked in the top fifth alliance and won Third Place in
engineering design.
I Team members are: Sophia Bachas-Daunert, Nina Gallinar, Carolina Gomez
I Rivas-Vazquez, Sabine Meurs, Ana Sofia Gomez Rivas-Vazquez, Isabella James,
I Nyah Ewan, Claudia Rivera-Tabio, Valeria Lopez-Trujillo, Madeleine Salman

Carrollton hosts the
2nd Annual National
Service Summer Project
- #ProjectNAO which is
part o f the Sacred Heart
Network Summer Service
program. Participants work
with the NAO Humanoid
system, Arduino, 3D
Printing, and coding. After
learning the technology
during a four day period,
students host visitors from
Breakthrough,
Centro Mater,
Barnyard.