EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM ) — Franklin High School’s Robotics Program is making noise as two of its teams find themselves ranked in the top 100 of the World TrueSkill Rankings by VRC RoboScout, an app that measures the performance of high-school robotics teams at VEX robotic competition tournaments throughout the year.
One of their upperclassmen teams, which goes by the name Genesis, is composed of four juniors and currently ranks No. 2 out of a pool of over 10,000 teams.
Their freshmen team – the Oriental Express – currently ranks as No. 86 in that same pool.
“I’m proud of all of them. They all work hard. I strive to put that competitiveness in them — that they’re going to compete no matter what. Even if your robot breaks, you got to set it down and get out there and try to do something. Get in somebody’s way,” said Daniel Quinones, Franklin’s computer science teacher and both teams’ adviser.
Quinones said no high school in the Borderland has ever had a robotics team place this high in the rankings before.