On 2021/5/25, we participated in the VIQC World Championship LRS (Live Remote Skills) Elementary Division, in which we had 3 chances for each driver skills and programming skills, and we could queue for one chance at a time.
At last, we completed the competition with 8th place on the scoreboard, and we got the Design Award, which is one of the WC (World Champion) awards in the mercury division. We scored 210 points in driver skills, and 77 points in programming skills, and a total of 287 points.
Our goal was to get driver 274 points and programming 141 points, with a total of 415. However, we got nernous and we think the final 287 is also not bad.
After the competition, we thought of some reasons that we got the Design Award. First, before 5/25, we had our team interview, and I think we performed well in the interview. Second, our engineering notebook, we continually wrote our notebook, including the problems we encountered and how we improved our skills.
This is the robot that we use for this world championship, and this robot had several prototypes, and at last, we decided to stick with this one and do our best to improve our skills.
In this season of VEX IQ, we got a total of two Excellence Awards, two Design Awards, and one Robot Skills Champion and one Second Place Award, and a Teamwork Second Place Award. We worked really hard this season and I hope we can do better in the next season.
In order to improve, I think I have to practice more often, and also try to always think of a new way to design the robot, and strategies. I am really looking forward to competing in VEX IQ next season, and we will enter another level, the middle school division.
首先是機器人的部分，這是我最喜歡也有最多成績的一項科目，在這一年來我參加了總共四個比賽，WRO、VEX
IQ、FLL (First Lego League Challenge)
和勞動部舉辦的全國技能競賽，以下是我得到的分區與全國獎項：
2020.8
First Prize, Elementary School, Central and Southern Taiwan, World Robot Olympiad
2020.（WRO2020 國際奧林匹亞 智能機器人 聯盟賽 臺灣中南區 國小組 冠軍 /
雖可晉級，但因疫情，無全國賽與世界賽。） 2020.12
Second Place, VEX IQ Taiwan Open Preliminaries, Group B.
我們自學不只是在家裡讀書，我也有培養一些其他的興趣，像是機器人的部分，不管是上課的時候或是比賽的時候，都會有跟別人溝通和競爭，像是在
VEX IQ
比賽裡就會有團隊合作的部分，這時候就需要在很緊湊的時間內，認識其他隊伍的選手們，並討論出最好的戰術，甚至練習合作。在多次的全國賽與世界賽中，都多次體驗過。
I want to introduce you the team that got Second Place in VEX IQ 2021 Rise Above World Skills Standings in 8500 teams from 45 countries, 6699B, Unicorn Pucher! Which is comprised of Jin and her brother, Yu.
Jin: "We started to participate in VEX IQ Competition on July 7th, 2020, so this is our first year competing, this year's VEX IQ Challenge is called Rise Above, which has 27 risers, and you have to stack them up and form a line for points, and the time limit is 1 minute, and the max score you can get is 306 points."
For VEX IQ Challenges, there will be two types of challenges, the first one is the Teamwork Challenge, in which you have to team up with another team to get points, and both teams will receive the same score.
The second one is Skills Challenge, in which you will do this on your own and get as many points as you can, the field set up will be different from the Teamwork Challenge. For Skills Challenge, this challenge will be divided into driver skill and programming skill, as you can see, driver skill is to control your robot to get points, and programming skill is to program your robot to get points, both points will be added up for your Skills Challenge Score.
This year is special because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of the challenges are online, and the field set up for the Teamwork Challenge also changed to adjust for the online competition.
On March 27th, 2021, team 6699B attempted to participate in a pre-recorded skills match, and their goal is to get more than 346 points, which is the score that the World Skills Standings Second Place held at that time, so if team 6699B got more than 346 points, they would be the second place.
At that time the Frist Place held 447 points, and 6699B can get 141 points in Programming Skills and 210 in Driver Skills at most, but for these two points added together, they still couldn't beat the first place.
They also participated in a West Virginia VEX IQ Challenge Qualifier, this competition is a Live Remote Skills competition, they got 284 points at last, even though it wasn't able to beat the Second Place holder, but they got the 10th place in the World Skills Standings.
They got Excellence Award and Robot Skills Second place for the West Virginia Live Remote Skills competition, the judges liked how they introduced their robot, it was a good result after all.
At last, team 6699B successfully beat the high score 346 points with one point higher, which is 347 points, they got 141 points in programming skills and 206 points in driver skills, what a perfectly calculated score!
Jin: "I am really happy that we got this high score, after all the effort we put in this competition, a good score finally came out, and we will keep up the good work, and work even harder next time, attempting to be the first place!"
