Mesa all-girl robotics team wins 1st place at CREATE Jr. World Championship
May 7
An all-girl robotics team from Mesa, Arizona, earned the top award at this year’s CREATE Jr. World Championship.
Alexis Ngo and Tara Yuenyongsgool are two eighth graders at ASU Prep Poly SPARK Institute. They brought home both the Honor Award, the competition’s top award, and second place in the Skills Competition.
Ngo and Yuenyongsgool spent the past eight months designing, testing and competing together; however, their latest robot, Johnny 20, was built in just one week. Johnny 20 is able to pick up as many as three small, semi-flexible, inflated playground balls at a time.
The Maroon team, led by ASU Prep Robotics Teacher and Coach Matthew Chicci, alongside Ngo and Yuenyongsgool, joined “Arizona Horizon” to talk about their success.
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