WalshBots

Cleaned up trophy case in main hallway, added lots of pictures... more to come!

Cleaning up shop…. Added Worlds robots to display.

Looking good! Lots of memories made!

Thank you IBM Innovation Center for showing the WalshBots around their lab!

Our VEX Robotics World Championship journey is done. Although we did not make it to eliminations in our divisions the students are coming home with a huge memorable experience!

Here are some fun times they had on last day!

RIT powered by WalshBots!

Congrats RIT winning Innovate Award!

Go CJ!

Match results from last two days - teams have two more qualifying matches today.

Recap of WalshBots journey so far in photos!

A huge shout out of thanks to the many contributors who made this VEX Worlds Journey possible!
Mutual One
Elks Lodge
Truist Bank
Analog Devices
American Endowment Foundation (Jeff Barr)
Miller / Coates Family
Wilmot Family
Long/Yang Family
Heather Robb
Kathy Rizzuto
Nicholas Andersen
Vonnegut Family
Carl Gerst
and so many more!
Our students are appreciative of all the Framingham residents they met at Robinsons Hardware and Stop & Shop leading up to Worlds.

This second day our three teams will be competing in six qualifying matches each. Win or lose they will make Framingham proud!

Great first day for the three teams - each learning from their practice and first qualification rounds! Here are some photos from their first day at VEX Robotics World Championships!

WalshBots schedule. Today they played a practice match and a qualifier match. In total, ten qualifying matches will determine their rankings for alliance selection on Tuesday….
9781B Blue Avocados are in Math division
9791C Cookie Monsterz are in Arts division
9791F McNuggets are in Design division
Posted below are their match schedules. Note Central time in Texas
Watch the matches on vexworlds.tv

After picture of pit area.

Breakfast club!

We are going to wait out the weather and leisurely make our way to convention center. Our friends at RECF did share this picture of the WalshBots pit being prepped for today - good to have a "before" picture and we will post and "after" picture once decorated. We will be in Section 2 of F Hall by Math Division.

Waking up to “weather” tornado watch in Dallas..

In flight! Thankful no “are we there yet?”

And the adventure begins! Dallas here we come! VEX Robotics World Championships for MS start tomorrow!

Here is the direct link to the 4pm version on NBC Boston 10...

Share this post - we will be posting update from the WalshBots page with information on how to follow our three teams progress at VEX Robotics World Championships!

Meet a brilliant local student robotics team headed to an international competition Move over Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. A Framingham middle school’s robotics program is going head to ahead with hundreds of others in Texas at the Robotics World Championship.

NBC Boston stopped by to interview the teams heading to VEX Robotics World Championship! Kids had a blast. Should air tomorrow morning starting at 5am on channel 10 (if I remember correctly) and NE Cable News.

New shirts are in for WalshBots - inspired by France FFF 2011 away soccer jersey.

This is WalshBot's 11th season - proud to be sending three teams to represent Southern New England at VEX Robotics World Championships in what will certainly be a transformative experience for these young roboteers. In two weeks it will be the start of their qualifying matches where they will compete alongside 491 teams from 24 countries around the globe.

The photo is from nine years ago during Skyrise season at the beginning of their VEX Robotics Worlds experience.

We are still collecting contributions online to defray the expenses relating to lodging and travel for the 17 students. Please consider helping out.

online donations through CheddarUp:
https://walsh-robotics-2024.cheddarup.com

car wash fundraiser:
https://www.scrubadub.com/fr/campaign/walshmiddleschoolrobotics

What makes an effective team? one that plans to have right gear for all at Worlds! (of course checklists are first priority!)

On the VRC Robot Inspection Checklist it states for R2 that "Team testifies that the designing, building, and programming of the robot was done only by the students on the team." Ok, so we had two of our teams testify with their hands on the Robot Inspection Checklist that this statement to be true.

Road to Worlds!

Worlds Pit banners have arrived! Wanted to include all the club members…

Eclipse watching….

Meet the teams today 4/7 at Robinsons Hardware 1 Nicholas Rd Framingham until 4pm!

Come meet the teams at Robinsons Hardware 1 Nicholas Rd Framingham until 4pm today and tomorrow 10am to 4pm…

Stop by Saturday 4/6 or Sunday 4/7 at Robinsons Hardware 1 Nicholas Road Framingham to meet the teams 10am-4pm!

If you can not stop by, online contributions to help the teams travel to VEX Robotics Worlds Championships would be much appreciated!

https://walsh-robotics-2024.cheddarup.com

Snow in Spring! More road salt - need car wash?

Walsh robotics has a fundraiser running with Scrubadub where if people buy $10 washes on this website 50% of each wash will go to Walsh robotics (PTO). They have to be bought from this site:

ScrubaDub Group Fundraising : Walsh Middle School Robotics The Walsh Middle School Robotics Program, known as WalshBots, is an initiative dedicated to inspiring young minds through science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).