CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Patriot Robotics VEX team, 405, and Kenwood Knights Sword, 98706K, of Clarksville, TN, along with partner, 97934V team Valiant, from Franklin Road Academy had a huge win at the White House competition on February 4.

These teams formed the 3rd seeded alliance and would surprise the competitors in the final matches.

Patriot Robotics consists of George Michael Huttick, a senior of Rossview High School, Matthew Riley, a freshman, and Adam Riley, a junior, both attend the STEM academy at Kenwood High School.

Team Valiant consists of David Chandler, Conor Ireland and James Munn, all seniors, and freshman Tennent Grace Smith from Franklin Road Academy.

The Kenwood Knights Sword consists of Chance Piefer, Adam Berenger, Jared Bauman and Connor Thomas, all juniors, and freshman Savannah Piefer from the Kenwood STEM academy. The team also includes senior Nathan Bailey.

The independent team Patriot Robotics seeded 3rd after four qualification matches and picked the 6th seeded team Valiant, Franklin Road Academy. They finished off alliance selection by choosing Kenwood Knights Sword to make an incredible alliance. From there the alliance had to fight to get to the finals. Facing the last seeded alliance was not a problem for the teams, however, semifinals proposed a bigger problem.

The semifinals match consisted of the alliance having to face three Brentwood Academy teams that work together on a regular basis. The Brentwood teams had beaten Franklin Road and their alliance at a previous tournament.

405 and its partners pulled off the win and moved onto the finals where they would have to face an alliance of two more Brentwood Academy teams. After not losing a match all day the 3rd seed alliance went in confident and won their last finals match drastically and didnt even let Brentwood Academy score, giving them the outstanding result of 48-0.

Patriot Robotics also pulled off another huge win by also winning the most coveted award in VEX robotics, the Excellence Award.

Now with all of the 3rd alliance teams qualified for state, much practice and work is needed to stay ahead of the reigning former state champions, Brentwood Academy. The state tournament will be held on March 4 at Brentwood Academy where the top 30 teams in the state will go head to head in the knowledge of their robots and how well teams can drive and program their robots.

They have a few weeks to prepare to win 5 of the TN state spots that will get to compete at VEX Worlds Championship in Louisville, KY in mid-April.

Patriot Robotics 405 is the only team representing Tennessee at the U. S. Open National Robotics Championship held in early April in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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