Lokelani to Compete in Statewide Robotics Competition

2013 Hawaiʻi VEX Match, courtesy photo.

The 3rd annual Hawaiian Electric Companies Hawaiʻi VEX State Middle School Championship will be held on O‘ahu on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, from 8:50 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Twenty-two Hawai‘i middle schools, including Lokelani Intermediate School in Kīhei, will participate in the robotics competition.

Teams will control their robots to participate in various skills challenges, demonstrating the students’ grasp of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) concepts.

The 2015-2016 VEX Game Challenge, Nothing But Net, pits an alliance of two teams (red and blue) in timed matches on a 12-by-12-foot playing field.

The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing alliance by maneuvering the robots—in autonomous or driver-controlled play—to move colored balls across the field and into a net, as well as elevating an opposing team’s robot, in order to score points.

The other participating middle schools from across the state include:

• Highlands Intermediate School
• Sacred Hearts Academy
• Island Pacific Academy Stevenson Middle School
• Kapolei Middle School
• Wahiawa Middle School
• Waiakea Intermediate School
• Moanalua Middle School
• Waialua Intermediate School
• Nanakuli Intermediate School
• Waianae Intermediate School
• Niu Valley Middle School
• Wahiawa Middle School

The event will receive media coverage.

For more information on the Hawaiian Electric Companies Hawaiʻi VEX State Middle School Championship, go online.