SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204

Central Robotics/Kiwibots Tournament 4 saw 4 VEX IQ teams and 2 V5 teams competing.
In the VEX IQ Competition Rapid Relay, St Peter's College team 3204A SPC Bots Andrew Kim Taegon, qualified in 3rd and finished the finals in equal third place, while team 3204T SPC Bots Telesphorus qualified in 9th place and 3rd equal in the finals, team SPC Bots Sixtus qualified in 8th, final placing fifth, team SPC Bots Benno qualified in 15th missing out on the finals.
On the V5 High Stakes field, 3204A SPC Bots Alexander qualfied in 7th and made it to the semifinals with their alliance partner team 2933Y The Ripper from Freyberg High School; team 3204P SPC Bots Paul qualified in 8th and along with alliance partner and first time competitors 11169F THSFF from Taumarunui High School, lost in the semifinals to the tournament winners.
Big thank you to all the students that helped pack up and load the school van and trailer.

St Peter's College robotics teams 3204A SPC Bots Alexander and 3204P SPC Bots Paul competed at the third Central Robotics/Kiwibots Tournament of the V5 High Stakes season qualifying in 10 and 11 place, making it to quarter finals.
On the VIQRC Rapid Relay field, team 3204A SPC Bots Andrew Kim Taegon qualified in 7th place ending up 4th equal in the final round, while team 3204S SPC Bots Sixtus qualified in 11th place finishing in 8th place.
Teams SPC Bots Sagato Telehia, SPC Bots Benedict XV , SPC Bots Benno, SPC Bots Marcellus and SPC Bots Telesphorus used the day to improve their robots.

At Tournament 2 of the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation VEX season:
In VIQRC Rapid Relay, teams SPCBots Sixtus and SPCBots Andrew Kim Taegon competed and made it to the finals, while teams Benno, Marcellus, and Telesphorus continued to build their robots. Team Benno won the Engineering Notebook Trophy!
In V5RC High Stakes, teams SPCBots Alexander and SPCBots Xystus competed, while teams Benedict XV and Paul continued to build.

One of St Peter's College VEX champions is going to work at Lego in Denmark. Good luck Charlie!

Building a dream with Lego internship A Palmerston North man with a flair for robotics will spend four months working at the home of Lego in Denmark.

SPOT the differences (or similarities)
8 years ago SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204E Evaristus, representing St Peter's College at with Grant J Cox.
Today Charlie Mollard is Team MANTZ1 and back at for the 4th time representing Central Robotics and Kiwibots

Awesome mahi from Central Robotics Kiwibots VEX Robotics

Three St Peter's College Robotics Teams travelled to Lynfield College, the 2nd weekend of February, to compete in the Kiwibots VEX Robotics National Championships performing extremely well. SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204 Callixtus made it to the semifinals, just missing out on World Championship qualifying spot. Team SPC Bots Xystus made it to the knock out stages, while SPC Bots Benedict XV moved up the rankings on the last day.
St Peter's College - past and present - students, teachers and parents all volunteered in various roles as well

Great performance at Kiwibots NZ VEX Robotics National Championships. Team Callixtus made it to the semifinals alongside Steam-Ed Robotics while Xystus made it to the round of 16 alongside their alliance partners from Freyberg High School. Past St Peter's College students Charlie, Aria and Farrah were VEXU torment champions.

SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204 Callixtus is in 3rd place after Qualifications and will be in the third seated alliance going into final rounds.
Xystus qualified 32nd and is in the 16th seated final alliance. Benedict XV ended in 58th place

Max, Official Drone Pilot of the Kiwibots NZ National VEX Robotics Championships 2023-2024.

Our St Peter's College Head Boy, currently competing at Kiwibots NZ Nationals

Meet St Peter's College's head students for 2024 One is studying te ao haka and the other robotics.

Past and Present St Peter's College students and staff in action at the Kiwibots VRC New Zealand National Championship

Instead of enjoying the sunset SPCBots teams Callixtus, Benedict and Xystus are getting ready for Kiwibots Robotics National Championship

Congratulations to SPCBots aleXander, winning the Inspire Award and Lucan Gifford, who won Volunteer of the year Award at the Kiwibots NZ VEX IQ Nationals. St Peter's College was represented by 7 teams and lots of volunteers who helped Central Robotics run the event.

Great to have Alicia from Powerco visiting our Pasifika VEX Robotics team at St Peter's College. The sponsorship that allowed these girls to build, program and compete with their robot is much appreciated.
Looking forward to Central Robotics/ Kiwibots Tournament at PNGHS this Saturday

Celebrating Nikita's birthday at the 5th Central Robotics / Kiwibots Tournament of the season.
26 St Peter's College participated including two student who also participate in the school production of Joseph.
In the Team Benedict XV made it to the semifinals, team Xystus the quarterfinals and team Callixtus spend the day building.
Teams Andrew Kim Taegon, Francis, Gregory, Michael, Peter and Simplicius participated in the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation VEX IQ Robotics Competition

A big thank you to Ben, Charlie, Michelle and Mr van Haren who drove the two St Peter's College vans, and ALL the parents, who drove their roboteers to New Plymouth for Central Robotics / Kiwibots Tournament 4.
In VEX IQ team Peter finished in second place along with CSNS, missing first by 1 point.
Teams Francis, Simplicius and Michael ended in share of 5th, while team Andrew Kim Taegon missed out on the finals.
VRC team Xystus qualified in second but stranded in the semifinals as did team Benedict and their alliance partner Callixtus.
All students showed great ROCK values as they helped set up and pack up, and were just awesome on this very long day!

St Peter's College had 9 teams participate in the third Central Robotics/ Kiwibots.
In VRC "Over Under" SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204 Benedict XV and Xystus made it to the quarter final, while team Sagata Telehia, sponsored by Powerco build their robot.
In VIQRC "Full Volume" SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204 Michael and Peter finished third in the finals with Gregory in fifth. Teams Francis and Andrew Kim Taegon just missed out on the finals and team Simplicius were building their robot.
Big thank you to past and present St Peter's College staff and students who volunteered.

St Peter's College first Pasifika VEX Robotics team, Sagata Telehia, with their V5 competition starter kit, courtesy of Powerco. Thanks to Kiwibots' superfast delivery, building can start at Central Robotics tournament tomorrow

St Peter's College students Jacob C, Jacob B, Deiz and Chrysander entered the Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland NZ Engineering Science Competition 2023 and answered the question: “How much electrical power will be required due to New Zealanders adopting the use of generative AI?”

St Peters Palmerston North swap chairs for the couch

Great quotes from fabulous teachers our St Peter's College students including, Charlie Mollard, met at Worldskills in Sydney back in 2018

The first Central Robotics matches were held at Massey Engineering & Technology Riddet Building. St Peter's College had teams Andrew Kim Taegon, Francis, Peter, Simplicius competing in the VEX IQ Robotics Competition Full Volume and team Xystus competed in the VEX Robotics Competition Over Under. Teams Benedict XV and Michael used the competition as a build day.
Congratulations to SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204 Francis who were on the winning alliance with the best stop time after a 3 way tie breaker

Proud to have St Peter's College students William and Ty help run robotics activities for cubs and scouts at West End Scout Group using Central Robotics and Kiwibots VEX GO kits. Thanks Christine for the invite

At the Central Robotics / Kiwibots our robotics teams, Benedict XV, Joan, Xystus, Andrew Kim Taegon, Michael and Simplicius, where very busy building their robots. helping set up and pack up. Special thank you to William for helping other teams and Malvin for assembling one set of VEX IQ "Full Volume" game elements, while the parents of St James' School Palmerston North - Te Kura Katorika o Hato Heemi and Russell Street School assembled the other ones.
It was also great to see St Peter's College alumni visiting from University of Otago and Te Herenga Waka—Wellington Uni

Great to be one of the VEX World Champs, without actually going to the VEX World Champs

A huge congratulations to all 16 Kiwibots teams that went to the USA recently to compete in the Vex Robotics World Champs - bringing home more awards than ever before! 👏👏

- Two NZ University teams won the top two Awards, Excellence and Design Awards and made the Division Finals!
- Both middle school teams and one high school team made it through to their Division Finals
- Otumoetai College Team 2941B won the Sportsmanship Award
- Rovers Team 48495A from Palmerston North won their division final, and were crowned Division Championships. They then played in the Arena finals - with 20,000 tamariki cheering them on!
- College Street Normal School Team 2223HB robots, from Palmerston North, then took out the Sportsmanship Award!
- Skywalker Destroyers Team 3168G made it through to their Division Final in Elementary School.
- In the online challenges St Peter’s College, from Palmerston North, Team 3204 Callixtus won the Mathworks Challenge!

Smales Farm is proud to be a sponsor of Kiwibots inspiring young kids to immerse themselves into tech, problem solving and innovation one robot at a time.

Team MANTZ1, Massey University, (BLUE alliance on the right) on their way to their 3rd win (78-59) of the day against IEST1, from Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Team MANTZ1, Massey University, from the Central Robotics region as one of 3 university teams representing Kiwibots at .
Wishing team members Charlie Mollard (Lego Master NZ Champion), Cullun Wallis and St Peter's College teacher Brandon Montagnani all the best in their 7 matches on Saturday Morning very early and 2 more on Sunday morning.
You can watch it live on vexworlds.tv : select VEXU on the left and click on the (Design) Practise and Qualification or follow this link https://www.vexworlds.tv/ #/viewer/broadcasts/practice--qualification-matches-design-jx9g2x0cjkglcgqlyflw

Congratulations once again to Jacob Crume and SPCBots VEX Robotics Team 3204 Callixtus for winning the MathWorks Follow the Path Challenge and making it to the big screen at in Dallas, Texas. Hopefully the good people of Robotics Education & Competition Foundation will manage to get the trophy and prize drone to St Peter's College

Very proud of our past St Peter's College students, Oli and Charlie Mollard for being crowned LEGO Masters NZ!
Good Luck Charlie, Mr Brandon Montagnani and Cullun, who are competing as team MANTZ1 in the VEX University Robotics World Championship. follow them live on (early) Saturday and Sunday morning www.vexworlds.tv (VEXU Design Division)

Building on a dream to win the Lego crown Oli and Charlie Mollard's key to success is their complementary skills.