🤖🧀 Queso Bowl Robotics Party!
The Queso Bowl robot competition and party, hosted by Microchips & Queso, brought together 22 teams, 20 volunteers, and 250 attendees from all across south Texas in San Antonio, TX, on May 17, 2025!
The Queso Bowl is an off-season robotics competition featuring a modified game with a larger field, a double dip for scoring, side quest challenges, raffle prizes, and an expanded 3-team alliances.
Event Highlights
- 3 REV Control Kit winners courtesy of FIRST in Texas
- 6 robots on the field during play-offs
- 11 entries in the Best Dip Contest
- 11 CASH MONEY prizes
- 13 handcrafted trophies awarded
- 28 Raffle Prize Winners
- 80 students and adults completed the 30-second Clip Challenge
😎 Thank you to ALL to our volunteers for reffing, scoring, A/V work, queuing, and team judging! A special shout out goes to Syd from Open Source and Lachlan from Sitting Ducks for spending the entire day helping teams queue on time!
🙏 Thank you Northside Church of Christ for allowing us to rent your beautiful facility!
👏 The raffle prizes totaled $4,400 in value! THANK YOU to all our raffle sponsors!
- FIRST in Texas – 3 REV Control Kits
- Six Flags Fiesta Texas – Voucher for two day passes
- Music on Magnolia – 1 month of music lessons
- Babcock Automotive – Oil and Filter Change
- San Antonio Aquarium – 5 Day Passes
- Armadillo Boulders – 3 sets of 4 Day Passes
- Rainbow Gardens – $25 Gift Card
- The Great Room Escape – $50 Gift Card
- Chicken ‘n Pickle – Play & Snack for Two
- Club Carwash – 3 month MVP Membership
- Predator Paintball – VIP Pass for 2
- The Wash Tub – 3 sets of 3-pack Ultimate Wash booklet
- Lake Travis Zipline Adventures – 3 hour Zipline for 2
- AR’s Entertainment Hub – $150 Gift Basket
- San Antonio Spurs – Spurs Swag Bag
- Savon Dolly Handcrafted Goat Milk Soap Basket
- The Curtis Family – Lemon Love Basket
- Lev Haolam – Israeli Artisanal Goods
- Troop 2554 – Girl Scout Cookies
- California Pizza Kitchen – Gift Card
- Salt Grass Steakhouse – $50 Gift Card
- The Smith Family – Nacho Night Basket
- San Antonio Zoo – 4 Day Passes
🏆 Thank you to all the teams who competed!
Steminists 16556
The Qubit Bot 23312
Sitting Ducks 23507
P4n!c 20741
Spicy Ketchup 16377
The Covenant 22370
The Cosmobots 25679
Cobalt Chaos 20316
LOST Robotics 23871
Cuero FTC 23661
BASIS May Contain Small Parts 27253
Droid Rage Phantom 6901
BASIS Some Assembly Required 21346
Battle Stallions 13896
Wolves Robotics 5189
TBD (ThunderBolts in Disguise) 18140
The Lucky Duckies 26662
Droid Rage – Zenith 18458
JSTEM Lightning: Bolts 11312
JSTEM Lightning: McQueens 11338
Gigabytes of Guac 25959
Photo highlights from Queso Bowl
