Shorecrest Robotics to head to Nationals

The Shorecrest Upper School Robotics teams have had an incredible start to the 2025–2026 VEX season! Team 6104G earned the Excellence Award, Innovate Award, and Sportsmanship Award, while Team 6104M brought home the Design Award thus far. Team 6104A has also shown tremendous growth and resilience at every event, consistently improving their robot performance and advancing to eliminations.

November 1, 2025 – the Chargers Push Back in Dover, FL
All three teams competed with heart and determination at the Chargers Push Back tournament. Team 6104G took home the Innovate Award, recognizing their well-documented and creative engineering design process, effective resource management, and innovative gameplay strategy. They finished an impressive 7–1 in qualification matches, pushing through to the semifinals before being eliminated.

Team 6104M overcame early technical challenges with their autonomous mode but made a remarkable comeback, finishing 5–3, advancing to the quarterfinals, and earning two judge interviews, signaling strong consideration for future awards.

Team 6104A showed tremendous growth and perseverance, finishing 2–6, making it to eliminations, and performing admirably despite early setbacks.

November 8, 2025 – the Eagles Push Back in Gainesville, FL

The teams again faced top Florida competition, and continued to shine! Team 6104M earned the Design Award, recognizing their highly organized and professional approach to the engineering design process, detailed and thorough engineering notebook, and student-driven team ethos. Team 6104G received the Sportsmanship Award, celebrating their positive attitude, encouragement of others, and gracious conduct both on and off the field.

All three Shorecrest teams advanced to elimination matches. 6104A competed courageously with only two members (as others were away for SATs, Swim & Dive Championships, or out sick), showing resilience and teamwork through challenging circumstances. 6104M and 6104G advanced together as an allied pair into the semifinals, where they narrowly lost their final match in the closing seconds, an exciting and hard-fought finish to another strong tournament weekend.

Thanks to these recent award wins, both Team 6104G and Team 6104M have officially qualified for two major events this season. They’ll be heading to the Florida North/Central State Championship in February 2026 as well as the CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Signature Invitational in Iowa this March.

Coming up next: All three teams will compete at Kraken Klash on December 6, followed by the Sunshine Showdown Signature Event in Orlando during winter break.

The coaches are incredibly proud of the students' hard work, teamwork and dedication, and are thrilled to see them earn these opportunities to compete at such a high level!