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<p class="fontlook">Carrollton's strong robotics tradition was upheld at the National 

tournament in San Francisco in late April. For the first time the professional 220 pound 

class competed at the same location as the college and high school 

competition. Carrollton was represented by Lizzy

DeZuelleta'08 in the professional class when her WPI team finished as 

national champions. In the college competition, Carrollton's Andrea 

Suarez '06 drove the University of Miami's robot to a third place 

finish.

 

<p class="fontlook">In the competitive high school 120 pound class the team of Lauren 

Correa and Jennifer Villa finished in 5th place. The team of Bianca 

Barrionuevo, Andrea Ucar and Cat Walkington did very well with 2 wins 

and their only losses were to other Carrollton robots, they were 

given a special award as "Judges Favorite Team". The team of Elizabeth 

Masson, Daniel Cosio and Andrea Rovirosa stayed the longest in the 

winners category and won two awards for Documentation of building the 

robot.

 

<p class="fontlook">In the very competitive 15 pound class, the team of Tiffany Virgin, 

Jessica Ortiz, Annalury Villasante, Victoria Rosier, Natasha Johnson 

and Carolina Barreto came in 6th place.   Carrollton

swept the Documentation Awards:  the  first place documentation  

went to the team of Jade Brown, Emma Guerra, Christiana Rosales and Emily 

Parr, being used as an example for all teams. The team of Natalie Diaz, 

Lauren Del Valle, Pam Zedan and Gaby Fortun also won an award for 

Documentation. Victoria Enjamio, Andrea Rabassa, Katrina Sanchelema 

and Monica Zatrain's team was the only Carrollton team to compete in 

two different categories. The team of Kira Russel, Alexandra Morales, 

Alejandra Zamparelli, Jassenia Rodriguez, Michelle Robelo and 

Alejandra Rovirosa had a very well-engineered robot but lost their 

match on a controversial judges’ decision.  The team of Andrea 

Barcia, Sofia Diaz and Claudine Fernandez had a great competition.

 

<p class="fontlook">Finally, in the Task Robot Class, Carrollton dominated with the National 

Champion Team of Nina Campo, Sofia Gomez, Christine Nunez, Lauren 

O'Brien and Gaby Campana also winning the Best Engineered Robot Award. 

The National Runner-Up team of Ali Mesa, Anamari Mesa, Sofie Arazoza, 

Ana Zelaya and Adrienne Castro  also won 3rd place in 

Documentation. First place in Documentation went to the team of Ana 

Kurzan, Carolina Menendez and Adriana de Armas. Second place went to 

the team of Vanessa Chammoro, Helena Buitrago, Tessa Danguillecourt 

and Gaby Granda,  which tied for 5th place in the competition with the 

team of Mandy Kuhn, Madison Uva, Megan Rickborn, Kelly Keough and 

Ilyssa Block (this team scored the highest point total in a single 

match during the competition).

 

<p class="fontlook">All in all Carrollton took 10 out of the possible 21 trophies in the 

high school competition.  The girls have worked very well and the 

schedule included some nights with the competition beginning at 8am 

and ending at 9pm. Many of the girls had Sunday off and spent the day 

doing homework rather than to tour San Francisco. The Seniors gave up 

their Grad Night and the Freshman gave up a chance of running for 

class office to go to this competition.

 

<p class="fontlook">Congratulations to all of the Carrollton Robotics participants!

 
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