Sunday, January 10, 2010

Washington Area Students Enter Robotics Competition

Jerry Skene, right, of Chantilly Robotics mentors a group from Anacostia High School participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition. (Jahi Chikwendiu - Washington Post)

From The Washington Post:

Tyler Saunders, a sophomore at Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School, says she should really be devoting her Saturdays to the algebra that she finds so vexing.

But she and a group of other students from the District school find something compelling about the challenge they received Saturday: in just six weeks, turn two big boxes of bolts, gears, hydraulics and electronic components into a robot that can maneuver with a soccer ball.

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