Sloan Carruth was exuberant. “When all the awards were announced, I was with friends and started jumping around and freaking out,” she said. It was May 2021, and Carruth had just found out she won the first VEX Robotics World Championship award that St. George’s has ever received. She was an eighth-grader at the time and is now a freshman. “They called out my team number first, and I had memorized it. It was like utter disbelief,” she said. “After you work so hard on something for so long, for all of it to pay off is just the best feeling in the world.” Competing on Zoom...