Robotics
2015
World Champion Design Award & Engineering Division Champions
2019
World Champion Excellence Award, Middle School Division
The award-winning Brentwood Academy robotics program, the Iron Eagles, offers a unique opportunity for students to develop strong problem-solving skills and put their creativity into action in a way that benefits them both inside the classroom and beyond.
VEX State Championship
Hosted by Brentwood Academy
Brentwood Academy’s award-winning robotics program will host more than 700 Tennessee students, 1st through 12th grade, for the 2020 Vex Robotics Tennessee State Championship on Saturday, March 7, 2020 beginning at 8:30 AM.
132 teams, consisting of 5-7 students each, will vie for a spot to be one of thirty teams advancing to the World Championship to be held in Louisville, KY in April. At last year’s world competition, the Brentwood Academy Iron Eagles won the Middle School Excellence Award, which is the top prize presented and was a great achievement for the state of Tennessee.
Robotics at BA
Training the Engineers of Tomorrow
The Iron Eagles
Brentwood Academy's robotics program was founded in 2013 by BA physics teacher Wendy Stallings, and in its first year the team of five won the state competition, going on to compete in the 2014 VEX Robotics World Championship competition. Since then, the Iron Eagles has grown to include more than 40 students and earned several state and national titles.
The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is the largest and fastest growing middle school and high school robotics program globally with more than 20,000 teams from 50 countries playing in over 1,700 competitions worldwide. Each year, an exciting engineering challenge is presented in the form of a game. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, build innovative robots and compete year-round.
2019 World Champions
Middle School Excellence Award Winners
Community Involvement
The Iron Eagles team is committed to helping others get involved with robotics and sharing our skills with others. Throughout the years we have mentored new robotics teams at other schools, hosted tournaments and workshops, trained and mentored volunteers and teachers from other schools so they could start their own programs, and participated in Nashville’s Mini Maker Faire, allowing other students and attendees to see what it’s like to drive a robot!
Meet The Staff
Dr. Judith Reynolds
Science/Robotics
- B.S. University of Georgia
- D.V.M. University of Tennessee
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