20234G︱邱可勳、楊博全
✦VIQRC 國中組
✦臺灣機器人教育聯盟
✦賽隊編號:20234G

▍2023年夏天 可薰和博全從 EV3 轉栽進 VEX IQ 世界
可薰:I started playing with VEX IQ robots last summer, around August. Before I started using VEX, I was already into and learning EV3 robots for quite a while. One day, I came across a video of VEX IQ competitions and did some research, and found out that Taiwan also has this competition. I decided that I wanted to try this and went to a class, and I just so happened to be paired up with my partner, who also learned EV3 robots from the same classroom I go to (he recognized me) and speaks English.
博全:2023年的八月,一直對機器人很有興趣也有持續在學習,透過去教室上課認識了這個比賽。
▍互相信任,一起前進
「溝通」是最大的挑戰
可薰:I went to the juniors competition because my partner, Brian(博全), was already a middle schooler and because I was had experience in robotics competitions. The hardest part for me was communicating with strategies with other teams since I was younger and shy, and sometimes I couldn’t really understand some parts they’re saying as my Chinese isn’t as good as my English.
我很相信她!
博全:我們面臨的挑戰是要和隊友共同配合,但大家課業都很繁忙,練習時間很難協調。我知道我的隊友是越級參賽,不過我不覺得這會有什麼問題,因為VEX的程式介面是類似Scratch,邏輯概念相通。而且我的隊友可薰在各種機器人相關比賽上都很有經驗,我非常相信她,越級參賽對她來說也不會是問題!
▍每場賽事都像未開箱的盲盒:意外或收穫?
可薰:For me, the part that still taunts me was during the finals we were paired with a really strong team, but when we were trying to strategize with them, they were really commanding so it was really stressful. Then, when we were finally playing the match, their robot suddenly broke apart and got stuck in the supply zone which resulted in a very bad score.
博全: 全國賽的比賽會場竟然那麼漂亮。

▍有相聚就會有離散 互相祝福
可薰:Sadly, we won’t be partners next year, as Brian was going into 8th grade, his homework and schoolwork would get harder and more stressful for him, so he won’t be participating next year.
博全:因為國二的課業關係,很可惜我不會繼續比賽。
▍教練分享
可薰跟博全一開始加入訓練就展現沉穩的個性,這也反應在遙控方面,即使有時間壓力還是依然很沉著冷靜,去觀察場上狀況得分。因為是第一次參加比賽,預賽的時候都還在熟悉比賽節奏、和隊友合作溝通的技巧,整天下來資格賽排名沒有很前面。最後final配到的隊友剛好是可以清空補給區的機器,補足了我們預賽機器的缺點無法進補給區,可薰與博全馬上擬定目標很明確的制定決賽策略:三個目標欄都要有方塊才會是最高積分,很幸運的決賽與盟友合作的相當好,比完當下雙方都歡呼,第一次參賽就拿下中南區預賽第三名的殊榮。
針對可薰說印象深刻的那場資格賽,教練印象也很深刻。資格賽時間表一出來大家就看到其中一場會搭配到名聲遠播很優秀的賽隊,我們都很期待那一場合作會拿下幾分。因對方很有經驗,我們比較處於聽命行事,積極配合隊友任何策略,練習的過程中不太順利一直無法達到想要的目標,我們的機器也出現一些狀況需要維修,盟友一如往常的很順暢地完成任務,也不斷陪我們練習,眼看比賽時間快到了,緊張的壓力越來越大,很怕拖累盟友資格賽一直以來的好成績,選手最後還紅了眼眶…趕緊打起精神鼓勵選手做到自己最好的表現正常發揮。而正式比賽就是那麼的剛好,盟友的機器出現問題…完全無法執行,我們馬上改變策略盡量得分,最終這場比賽拿下我們資格賽中最低的成績。
這也是VEX比賽迷人的地方:團隊合作 ! 沒有賽隊可以單靠自己就拿到高分,必須互相配合,也考驗比賽當下臨場反應。抽到排名高的隊友不一定就萬無一失一定拿到高分,當然一時的排名低也不一定就無法拿到冠軍。不放棄,努力終究可以有美好的成果。

可薰、博全:決賽前教練買了三串乖乖保佑機器順順利利,我們就這樣帶著乖乖到處跑上跑下的比賽,
不曉得是不是真的奏效,超有用的喔!

