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Cameron Schiller ’18 works on his robot the night before the VEX Robotics World competition in Louisville, KY. The team that qualified for World’s is comprised of Miles Agus ’18, Schiller and DJ Lesh ’18. The team has built six robots throughout this season. Sophie Haber/Chronicle

Robotics places fifth at World’s

Kendall Dees April 26, 2018

Robotics subteam 62A members Miles Agus ’18, DJ Lesh ’18 and Cameron Schiller ’18 placed fifth at the VEX Robotics World Championships Championships in Louisville, KY. Subteam 62A was the only school...

Justin Ansel 20, Danny Seplow 19, Coco Kaleel 20 and Cameron Schiller 19 discuss team strategies at the Southern California VEX Robotics Tournament Pomona. Credit: Coco Kaleel 20

Robotics team goes to semi-finals of state competition, qualifies for Worlds

Luke Schneider March 23, 2018

One of the school robotics teams qualified for the VEX World Tournament after cheating allegations made against them at the state competition were overturned Feb. 24, robotics coach Andrew Theiss said. Subteams...

Sophomores win Judge’s Award at robotics competition

Casey Kim January 14, 2018

Stephanie Cho ’20 and Jenna Kronenberg ’20 won the Judge’s Award at Howl in the Hills VEX Robotics Competition in Chino Hills on Jan. 13. The judges were impressed by the robot’s design and...

Robotics teams win competition

Noah Aire October 24, 2017

Cameron Schiller ’19 won first place in the First Annual Spartan Championship robotics competition at La Verne High School on Oct. 18. Miles Agus ’18 and DJ Lesh ’18 also participated in making the...

Aeden Gasser-Brennan ’19 and Ben Adelstein from Grover Cleveland High School win the 2017 California State VRC High School Championship at Pomona. Credit: Printed with permission of Aeden Gasser-Brennan

Robotics club member wins state championship

Jenny Li March 15, 2017

Robotics club member Aeden Gasser-Brennan ’19 won the 2017 California State VRC High School Championship in Pomona on March 11 with team member Ben Adelstein from Grover Cleveland High School. The...

HW Robotics Teams robot, 1148, makes an appearance at the final 1st and 3rd Wednesday Assembly to encourage students to join the robotics team.

Robotics team wins state championship

Claire Keller May 25, 2016

Robotics Team 62, the Kanagasabapathys, competed in VEX California State Championships in Pasadena March 11-12 and emerged as state champions, qualifying for VEX World Championships in Louisville, Ky.,...

Cameron Schiller 18  works on his robot, preparing it for the next VEX world robotics competition.  Credit: Maddy Daum/Chronicle

Cameron Schiller ’18 drives towards another robotics championship

Maddy Daum April 11, 2016

Cameron Schiller '18 spends two hours everyday after school, countless weekends and breaks working on his robot with his teammates. He designs, builds and drives his seven-foot-tall creations, hoping...

Cameron Schiller 18 builds robots for the Harvard-Westlake robotics team. Credit: Brittany Hong/Chronicle

Roboticist Cameron Schiller ’18 races towards his dream

Brittany Hong January 20, 2016

Cameron Schiller ’18 approached the garage door, took a deep breath, and opened it slowly with his heart accelerating. Inside, there were no cars, no old boxes, no ordinary household objects at all....

Jonathan Damico 18 writes code in the robotics room. Credit: Isabelle Eshraghi/Chronicle

Jonathan Damico ’18 balances coding, robotics and business

Isabelle Eshraghi January 18, 2016

In the robotics room, a 3D printer beeps and whirrs, robots perch on every surface possible and students are hard at work preparing for another robotics competition. Members of the robotics team are working...

Students qualify for robotics championship

Claire Keller November 22, 2015

Team 62, a robotics team also known as the Kanagasabapathys, earned second place at the Robodox Challenge tournament at Granada Hills Charter High School Saturday out of 36 teams. The team qualified for...

Record number of girls enroll in robotics

Benjamin Most October 7, 2015

The upper school robotics course has nine girls and four boys this year, with three times as many girls enrolled as last year. Robotics has historically had more boys than girls, robotics teacher Antonio...

Deniz Armani: Robotics

Claire Keller September 1, 2015

Engineer Deniz Armani will be taking over for physics teacher Karen Hutchinson to lead the Robotics Club during the school year and in their competitions beginning in January. Armani previously worked...

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