Lake Stevens robotics team receives world recognition
LAKE STEVENS — Lake Stevens Robotics team 8931R, known as Arsenic, won second place in the skills portion of the VEX Robotics Competition in Bellingham on Jan. 17, earning them a fifth-place ranking in the world and fourth nationally.
A score so high that only earns them second place speaks to the “world-class” competition in Washington, Lakes Stevens Robotics coach Jeff Lynass said in an interview.
The VEX Robotics Competitions are designed by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation and change every year. Robots are designed and programmed to fit each season’s competition.
For the 2025-26 season, the main competition pairs two teams together, with one robot each, to go against two other teams. Each pair tries to keep its colored blocks in the scoring areas while pushing the other color out. Matches include both an autonomous period, with no human interaction, and a driver-controlled period.
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