Harriton High School’s Robotics Team 197E earned a berth at the VEX Robotics World Championships after winning the Excellence Award and reaching the finals at Harbor Havoc in Portland, Maine.
The Lower Merion School District’s Oct. 22 announcement says the team’s performance at the mid-October Signature Event secured direct qualification for the world competition in Las Vegas in April 2027.
Team 197E is the first Harriton squad to win the Excellence Award and reach the finals at this event, according to the district.
The district named Luca Fiore, Jonas Berger, Dilan Chawla, Leo Speer-Zisook, Navin Jayanthi, Mark Jolley, Prabhas Banerjee, Daniel Ash and Ethan Kim as team members. Travis Lehman is the staff advisor.
The qualification was among the achievements highlighted in LMSD’s National STEM/STEAM Day post on Nov. 8. That celebration linked to classroom activities, robotics, Science Olympiad and Technology Student Association achievements spanning different parts of the district’s calendar.
For Team 197E, the next major destination is the April world championship. The October result gives the Harriton students an early place in that competition.
