Bryant Junior High School is hosting the VEX Robotics Tournament "Bryant Battle" Feb. 11.
It is scheduled to be a daylong event, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with an hour break for lunch.
The tournament has 55 teams from around Arkansas scheduled to compete. The teams include students ranging from sixth through 12th grades.
Robotics coach and mentor Jason Price said it is a chance to see STEM fundamentals in action. Â
The tournament is a regional and will qualify teams for the VEX Robotics State Tournament in March.
The tournament will start with qualification matches where teams will be randomly assigned. The teams will be ranked based on their win-loss record after at least six matches.
The elimination matches take place during the second part of the day. Teams can pick their teammates for those. The winners of the bracket matchups are the tournament champions.
Teams will turn in their design notebooks to compete for a design award for the best engineering notebook.
The notebooks and interview will determine the judges award winner.
Robotics will compete on a skills field for a skills award.
The excellence award will go to a team that had high robot rankings, an outstanding engineering notebook, high skills score and a great judged interview. It goes to the best overall robot.
"These tournaments are amazing examples of STEM in Arkansas," Price said.
The event is open to the public to watch students compete.
