DMS Clubs and Activities

What is robotics team? In the robotics team, a group of students work together in different sub-groups to create a robot in order to enter a competition called high stakes. In this competition, robots must grab rings and place them on pillars.

What are some parts of the competition? although the trailer and instruction for high stakes came out earlier this year shown here VEX V5 Robotics Competition: High Stakes | 2024-2025 Game. To summarize the video, each team must attempt to put all their rings on the stakes, where there are forty-eight rings in all. There are ten stakes on the map, each being able to hold six rings, although 5 of them are known as mobile stakes, which can be moved around the map, and two immovable “wall stakes”, which cannot be moved, but still holds six rings, two “alliance stakes” which can hold two rings of that side each, and one high stake, which the robots must climb a tall tower to place a single ring of their side on it. Each ring on a regular stake is worth one point, and the ring on the top of a stake, known as the top ring, is an extra two points. The robots must climb a bar to get to the high stake.

What are the team members' opinions about it?

One team member said that their favorite part of it is that they get to build the robot. Another said that it’s fun and they think that it is mostly about team-building. One person said that they like the competition and being able to work for the win. Mr. Ponte said that he loves teaching the team, and that he loves seeing the students problem solve. The final student said they think that it’s a really fun experience and they think it would be fun in high school.

Do you like to:

• Catch them all?

• Trade?

• Raffles?

• Playing games?

• Make friends with new people?

• And most importantly…. Have fun???!1!1!1!

If you are a Pokemon fan and enjoy these things, you are very much welcome to join Pokemon Club! We trade cards, do raffles every meeting and sometimes we watch the show. We have meetings every other Thursday. We also did a project where you created your own gym leader and team of Pokemon! The trade bin is another feature of Pokemon Club; it let's you put in a card to get another. In Pokemon Club, we also talk with our friends and sometimes actually play the battling part of the trading card version of the games.