Trojan Robotics

09/23/2026

It’s been a long time since our last post, but we are back in full swing with our elementary and middle school teams getting ready for our first tournament on October 31st. We have been very lucky to have West Marshall grad and 6 year Trojan Robotics team member, Rachel Case, join us today and last Wednesday to offer some help and advice to our youngest participants. Today, she showed teams how her
Engineering Notebook changed from the time she was in 7th grade to the notebook that helped her team to win the Excellence Award at the state championship last year and earn the trip to Vex Worlds.

05/01/2026

04/30/2026

Tough start to the morning. They partnered with a team from Ohio, but as it will sometimes happen, things did not go as they planned or practiced together.

04/30/2026

What a wild day it was today. The ups and downs of the matches. They finished the day ranked 29th out of 85 teams in their division. They partnered with two teams from China and one from Singapore. Their average score is currently 227.67. By comparison, their average score at the Iowa state tournament was 64.33. The level of play here is incredible even if I have strong doubts that most of these elementary teams designed and built their own robots. (I know that our team did.) One more day and then Coach Diser and I will be heading home after 10 days in St. Louis.

04/29/2026

On their last match for today they teamed up with a team from Singapore and scored 229 points together. Two more matches tomorrow!

04/29/2026

Their 7th match was with another team from China. They worked together to score 249 points!

04/29/2026

Match #6 with a team from Florida. They teamed up for 267 points!

04/29/2026

Partnered with a team from Arkansas for a score of 80 points on their 4th match. They also managed to get in two skills runs this morning.

04/29/2026

Third match was with a team from Michigan. Only a score of 36, but our boys scored all of those In spite of the other team having a more complex robot.

04/29/2026

Their 2nd match was with a team from Nevada. They worked together to score 280 points and are now 15th out of 85 teams in their division.