Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is celebrating the accomplishments of four students that recently competed in a national robotics competition.
Team NUKE participated in the Vex Robotics World Championship in Dallas, the eighth consecutive year ECTC students have competed at the event.
Vex U provides students with the chance to design, build, and program robots, which helps the students develop technical and soft skills. Teams work on their robots and compete in year-round events which culminate at the world championship.
Team NUKE competed in nine qualifying matches with teams from around the world, placing seventh in their division. The team recorded the highest individual match score of the tournament when they defeated Mississippi State 222 to 70. The team ultimately fell in the division finals to the University of Kentucky, which was led by a former member of Team NUKE.
The members of Team NUKE are students in ECTC’s Engineering and Electronics Technology program. Contact Marty Sutherland at ECTC to learn more.
Team nuke consisted of ECTC students Jeffrey Stewart, David Roche-Meléndez, Tanner Blake, and Joshua Wisniewski, along with five students from Northern Kentucky University.
