April 5, 2025 - Killingly Robotics Junior, Sophomore, and Freshmen teams finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively, at the US National Robotics Championship this week!

Additionally, All 3 of our teams collaborated with a team from Beijing, China to be crowned the Mega Alliance Champions. Our Junior team also earned the highest award at the US Nationals and our Freshmen were recognized for excellence in coding. 

Specifically, the teams earned the following awards:

Juniors (78889W) - US National Robotics Champions, Honor Award (Highest award at the US Nationals), & 3rd Place Robot Skills

Sophomores (78889N) - US National Robotics 2nd Place (Finalists), 5th Place Robot Skills

Freshmen (78889X) - US National Robotics 3rd Place, 4th Place Robot Skills, & Think Award for Coding Excellent

To top off an amazing week, assistant Killingly Robotics coach, Matthew Sprouse, was named national mentor of the Year.

Check out the competition photos and video in our Google Photo Album.

February 6, 2025 - Killingly Robotics Junior Team, 78889W, wins the highest honor in VEX Robotics, the Excellence Award and this time they earned this accolade "across the pond" in London, England! Only 3 American teams competed, all from Killingly, Connecticut and included seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen! Both our junior and freshmen teams made it all the way to the semi finals, with the juniors winning tournament finalists!

The team again appeared very professional in their uniforms, which included a "limited edition" London version featuring the Houses of Parliment, most commonly reffered to as "Big Ben," and the United Kingdom union jack. These special uniforms were designed by our own junior Samantha Bourque and included all of our generous sponsors, including our ELITE donor, SPIROL, who made this incredible adventure possible!  

Check out the competition photos and video in our Google Photo Album.

January 27, 2024 - Killingly Robotics sophomore team, 78889W earned  the highest achievements that vex awards, EXCELLENCE, at the Middletown robotics qualifier this weekend. Congratulations to Samantha Bourque, Zeke Benoit, Emerson Joly, Melody Hutchinson, Adam Koslowski, Evan Kozey, Calan Senecal, Calvin Vandale, and Wesley Sprouse on such well-deserved recognition.

The Excellence Award is based on the team's engineering design notebook, which is exceptional, as well as an interview explaining their process. It also takes into consideration the fact that they were at the top of the qualifying matches, robots skills ranking, and top in robot skills programming.

January 20, 2024 - Both Killingly senior and Sophomore teams are qualified for Regionals! Killingly teams performed at the highest levels during the 2nd Annual competition as team W, our sophomore team, was the engineering design champions! The team consists of Ezekiel Benoit, Samantha Borque, Melody Hutchinson, Emerson Joly, Adam Klosowski, Evan Kozy, Callan Senecal, Wesley Sprouse, and Calvin Vandale. Killingly team S is now qualified for the southern New England regional championship! Additionally, our Junior/senior team, S, comprised of Olivia Andrade, Dominic Capuano, Devin and Darren Exarhoulias, Colin Ericson, Addison Montville, Sebastian Sierakowski, Demetrius Thornton teamed up with our sophomore team, W, to make it all the way to the semi-finals. Team S already qualified for regionals earlier in the season as a result of their top-ranked robot skills score. 

May , 2023 - Killingly Robotics junior/senior team, 78889S won the INNOVATE Award at the CT State Championship at Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, CT. Congratulations to Samantha Bourque, Zeke Benoit, Emerson Joly, Melody Hutchinson, Adam Koslowski, Evan Kozey, Calan Senecal, Calvin Vandale, and Wesley Sprouse on such well-deserved recognition.

The Excellence Award is based on the team's engineering design notebook, which is exceptional, as well as an interview explaining their process. It also takes into consideration the fact that they were at the top of the qualifying matches, robots skills ranking, and top in robot skills programming.

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January 20, 2024 - Both Killingly senior and Sophomore teams are qualified for Regionals! Killingly teams performed at the highest levels during the 2nd Annual competition as team W, our sophomore team, was the engineering design champions! The team consists of Ezekiel Benoit, Samantha Borque, Melody Hutchinson, Emerson Joly, Adam Klosowski, Evan Kozy, Callan Senecal, Wesley Sprouse, and Calvin Vandale. Killingly team S is now qualified for the southern New England regional championship! Additionally, our Junior/senior team, S, comprised of Olivia Andrade, Dominic Capuano, Devin and Darren Exarhoulias, Colin Ericson, Addison Montville, Sebastian Sierakowski, Demetrius Thornton teamed up with our sophomore team, W, to make it all the way to the semi-finals. Team S already qualified for regionals earlier in the season as a result of their top-ranked robot skills score. 

January 21, 2023 - Killingly Robotics Team 78889M improves upon their success from Japan last week by sweeping their most recent event with awards in all three categories, a first for the Killingly program!  The team, comprised of seniors Joshua Torre, Carley DiMartino, Ryan Rattray, Aila Gutierrez, Moss Suksanti, Alexander Potapskiy, and Matthew Sprouse along with juniors Abigail Berube, Josiah Telles, and Emma Miller, and sophomores Adison Montville and Kathryn Fisher, were the Robot Skills Champions, Engineering Design Champions, and the Tournament Finalists!  This success comes after most of the team traveled half way around the world only days ealier, overcoming the often numbing effects of jetlag.

January 13-14, 2023 - Killingly Robotics Team 78889M wins another Engineering Design Award and this time they traveled nearly half-way around to world to compete in Chofu, Japan! Although there were several American teams and many other countries represented, Killingly High School was the ONLY Non-Japanese team to win an Award! The team also, unofficially, were announced "best dressed" for their professional uniforms, which included a "limited edition" Japanese version!  Check out the competition photos and video in our Google Photo Album.

May 7, 2022 - Team 78889M wins back-to-back Engineering Design awards at the 2022 World Robotics Championship!

March 6, 2022 - Team 78889M wins back-to-back Engineering Design awards at the 2022 Southern New England Robotics Championship!

November 6, 2021 - Team 78889M finishes 1st in robot skills at the Daniel Hand High School VEX robotics competition, scoring a combined 180 points between Matthew Sprouse's driver control and Josh Torre's autonomous programming runs! They earned the title of CT State Robotics Skills Champions!

October 30, 2021 - Team 78889M finishes 2nd in robot skills at the Hall High School VEX robotics season opener, scoring a combined 310 points between Matthew Sprouse's driver control and Josh Torre's autonomous programming runs!

Team 78889A wins the Engineering Design award at the 2021 Live-Remote Robotics World Championship!

Team 78889A wins their first ever Engineering Design award at the Southern New England Regional Robotics Championship!