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Meridian Robotics team celebrates their awards at the 2024 Meridian Robotics competition (Photo via Robotics Team)

Meridian robotics team shines at recent competition

Sofia Turley, Staff Writer April 10, 2024

The Meridian Robotics Team, officially known as FRC Team 1418 Vae Victis, is coming off a strong performance at the FIRST Robotics Chesapeake District Competition hosted in the Meridian Gym on March 23-24....

The 1418 robotics club booth from last years club fair. (Photo by Truman Lapp)

Meridian prepares for annual club fair

Kylie Moffatt, Staff Reporter September 28, 2022

Along with all of the excitement that the start of the school year brings comes the opportunities to engage in a variety of extracurriculars that may interest Meridian students. The annual club fair is...

Captains Sophia Heartney (left) and Sarah Fong (middle) work on the robot in the MakerSpace. (Photo by Stella Turner)

Leading 1418 to victory

Julia Bonilla, Staff Reporter April 1, 2020

Seniors Sarah Fong, Tahaseen Shaik, and Sofia Heartney speak of their four-year journey in the robotics team with wide glittering eyes, due to both nostalgia for their tight-knit community, and a melancholic...

Members of the GM robotics team line up at the awards ceremony

Robotics wins gold

Alek Schultz April 1, 2019

Vae Victis, George Mason High School’s Robotics team, won gold on Sunday, March 24, at the Chesapeake district competition in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The team was hungry for a win after losing the best-of-three...

A boy in a room

Remaking the MakerSpace: Mason’s most underrated opportunity

Jessie Beddow February 10, 2018

“I want students to know they are meant to feel welcome here,” Senior Freddie Bruner said. I was sitting on a bright red stool next to Freddie, de facto leader and facilitator of the MakerSpace,...

Carter Fendley works on his laptop during a Cyber Patriot competition.

The robotastic Carter Fendley

Fernanda Molina, Editor-in-Chief April 24, 2017

Try to think of one activity you do for more than 300 hours every year. I bet you can’t. Luckily for you, I know Carter Fendley, who can actually recall that he spends over 300 hours a year on...

Erik Boesen posing with a cutout of Stephen Colbert after he viewed the Late Show.

‘Botics with Boesen

Evelyn Duross April 21, 2017

As a kid who was only allowed thirty minutes of screen time everyday, Erik Boesen has defeated the odds to become what many teachers and students at Mason call tech savvy. Computer science is not cut...

Robotics team finishes stellar season

Robotics team finishes stellar season

Erik Boesen May 6, 2016

The most successful season in the history of George Mason High School’s Robotics team is in the books. Team 1418 finished in 12th placed and ended up captaining the 8th-seeded alliance at the World Championships...

The robotics team posing with their trophy.

1418 Wins Big at District Tourney

Erik Boesen March 10, 2016

Update (March 14): Over the weekend of March 12-13, Team 1418 scored another first place victory at the Washington, D.C. district competition, and will continue to the regional competition in April. The...

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