Pleasanton Students Awarded At International Robotics Competition

PLEASANTON, CA — Four Pleasanton sixth graders received the Judges Award at the 2025 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas.

Aamya Bajaj, Sendhan Balamurugan, Neil Menon, and Vanya Choibey are Harvest Park Middle School students who are members of the Pleasanton Robotics Club team, also known as C-3PO. After a year of practice creating four different versions of their robot, the team competed with 4400 teams from 55 countries to design, build, program, and pilot robots to conquer the Rapid Relay VEX IQ challenge.

The Judges Award recognizes a team that the competition judges felt was deserving of special recognition. C-3PO was chosen as best in their division.