MCPS students among the best in the world in Robotics competitions

[Anonymous]

https://mocoshow.com/2024/05/22/montgomery-county-high-school-students-robotics-team-wins-top-4-ranking-in-the-world/

Great to see the cooperation between the students.

[Anonymous]

best in the world? richest in the world and most connected in the world before being genuinely the best.

[Anonymous]

This is a really nice story. Thanks for sharing, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:best in the world? richest in the world and most connected in the world before being genuinely the best.

Say it without crying.

[Anonymous]

And the best in the world in electric vehicle design/build/racing!

https://mygreenmontgomery.org/2023/wheaton-high-schools-society-of-women-engineers/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:best in the world? richest in the world and most connected in the world before being genuinely the best.

Who is better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the best in the world in electric vehicle design/build/racing!

https://mygreenmontgomery.org/2023/wheaton-high-schools-society-of-women-engineers/

What a great story. Good for them!

[Anonymous]

Nuts to that.

[Anonymous]

DCUM is always so negative about travel based community service. Is what the kid who went to Uganda and Keyna to teach kids about robots an ok ETC for college apps? Or is it just considered another pay for service activity?

[Anonymous]

Well done to them!

The article uses an unusual interpretation of an (admittedly impressive) award to describe them as top four in the world.

Although they have a great track record, they are not ranked 4th in the world, or even top 50.

Other area teams including Poolesville and Blair were also at Worlds this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well done to them!

The article uses an unusual interpretation of an (admittedly impressive) award to describe them as top four in the world.

Although they have a great track record, they are not ranked 4th in the world, or even top 50.

Other area teams including Poolesville and Blair were also at Worlds this year.

From the article:

This dedicated team of high school students won first place, the Inspire Award, in their division at the 2024 World Championships – making them one of the top 4 teams in the world!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well done to them!

The article uses an unusual interpretation of an (admittedly impressive) award to describe them as top four in the world.

Although they have a great track record, they are not ranked 4th in the world, or even top 50.

Other area teams including Poolesville and Blair were also at Worlds this year.

From the article:

This dedicated team of high school students won first place, the Inspire Award, in their division at the 2024 World Championships – making them one of the top 4 teams in the world!

Yes, i directly addressed that! Winning that award doesn’t make them one of the top 4 teams in the world. They are not ranked 4th in the world - they aren’t even in the top 50. But they are one of 4 teams to receive that award at worlds. That is impressive but it isn’t accurately described in the article.

[Anonymous]

I don’t want to denigrate their amazing achievements but to be top 4 in the world you need to make it to the finals at worlds. They weren’t in the finals or even the playoffs. They were in the top 4 to receive an inspire award which is extremely impressive.

[Anonymous]

That’s one way to spin a story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s one way to spin a story.

Absolutely!