Congratulations to the Joe Walker Middle School Vex Jets, from the Westside Union School District in Quartz Hill, CA, for being selected as the grand prize winners in our Uncomplicate Your Classroom Video Contest!
The goal of the Vex Jets is to show teamwork, communication, and a big smile on your face when doing what you love. They take what they do very seriously and put hard work and sweat into every robot they build. There’s no doubt their attitude is what helps make them an award winning team!
Check out the great video they created about how they plan to use Robot Virtual Worlds to help their team:
The Joe Walker Vex Jets were established in 2011 by student, Justin Sowa, and teacher, Matt Anderson. This strong student-teacher team achieved 75th place in VEX World Championship in the “Gateway” game that year. In 2012, the Vex Jets continued their dominance and returned to the World Championships under the leadership of Kristy Bear, Cody White, and Joseph Nielson, where they took 69th place and won the World Championships Energy award! For the 2015-2016 school year, Amber Stricklen, Seth Torres-Beam, and Nassim Tavakoli will lead the team into battle, along with Noah DeHay as programmer, and Carson Davis as the driver.
In addition to competing, the Vex Jets have also helped start and mentor new high school and middle school teams all over the nation. And, this year, they’re helping start a team in Japan! The Vex Jets also work within their community to spread the word about the benefits or robotics and robotics competitions.
We’ll be checking in with the Joe Walker VEX Jets throughout the year so look for updates to see what these guys are up to. We’re excited to see what they do!
Congrats again and go Jets!