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Rice Lake robotics teams make history at VEX World Championship
8 May 2026
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No robotics team from Wisconsin — at any age level — has ever achieved what a group of Rice Lake sixth-graders accomplished this spring.
Members of the Natural Disaster robotics team from the Spartan Robotics Club at St. Joseph School in Rice Lake — Noah Hafstad, Zach Haughian, Eli Helgeson and Max Delf — earned the prestigious VEX IQ Elementary Excellence Award at the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship held in April in St. Louis, Missouri, officially recognizing them as the top elementary VEX IQ robotics team in the world this season.
The accomplishment is historic not only for Rice Lake, but for the entire state of Wisconsin. No Wisconsin VEX robotics team at any level has ever previously won an Excellence Award at the VEX Robotics World Championship.
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