CARROLLTON, Texas – While most teachers and students were enjoying the the first day of Spring Break tis past week, the DeWitt Perry Robotics Club travelled to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after almost 63 days with no days off to compete in the Okl​ahoma Botball Regional. DeWitt Perry brought over 60 kids, four Botball teams and four Jr. Botball teams, more than any other school.
Botball is a 100% autonomous robotics competition for middle school thorough high school students, though the majority of the schools are high schools. CFBISD’s middle school students compete directly against kids in high school, private school, college prep and technical  education schools. Students have 8-9 weeks to design, build, test and document up to two robots to compete in the competition.  The students must build their robots from a kit of raw parts and the students program their robots in Python and C and there is NO remote control.
Jr. Botball is an autonomous robotics contest for elementary through lower middle school. Students have a limited time to complete seven pre-set autonomous robotics challenges and one “mystery challenge”.
All four of our Jr. Botball teams completed all seven challenges and the mystery challenge and all four earned trophies, a feat accomplished by few of the overall teams.
The four Botball teams all finished in the top-10 of the competition with only high schools above them:
- 1st place documentation competition
- 4th-place seeding​
- 4th-place overall
- Judges choice for outstanding engineering
- Spirit of Botball award
The club would like to thank the CFBISD Advanced Academic Services department for their continued support of the club along with Adam Toy, the principal of DeWitt Perry Middle​.
For more information and complete scores click here.
