Indian Valley Middle School participated in a Robotics competition at Drexel University. Seven students worked as a team to design a robot to complete an underwater obstacle course and to pick up rings of various weights on the bottom of a pool.

Randy Hilston, Bryan Freedman, Max Bottorff, Tasha Jones, Connor Gephart, Ali Tomasevich, and Nick Hausler represented Indian Valley after demonstrating superior teamwork. Their robot was successful at IV's own school robotics competition.

At Drexel, they received 1st place overall at the Sea Perch Robotics Competition for all middle schools, in addition to receiving a 3rd place for Teamwork & Sportsmanship and a 1st place for Vehicle Performance. The United States Navy and Drexel University's school of Engineering presented the awards to the winning teams.
Indian Valley's robotics team began meeting in February learning a variety of engineering and robotics concepts before forming 3 large teams to build their own Sea Perch robot. More than 40 students participated in the weekly after school meetings which were run by Andrew Johnson, an IV math teacher, and Marty Gephart, a parent volunteer. Steve Strom, the SAHS robotics advisor, also assisted at each of the meetings. Additionally, Andy Mokrzycki (co-advisor with Strom for the SAHS Robotics team) was also a big help to the IV Robotics team. During the month leading up to the Sea Perch challenge, the club was visited by Ben Letter, a senior engineering major at Drexel University, and Michael Grady, an engineer who works for the United States Navy.