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FIRST Robotics Teams show off robots
Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 16:00Purdue sponsors open house for high
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Updated: Sunday, 15 Feb 2009, 8:59 PM EST
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Students unveil their robotic creations
Submitted by agriessm on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 15:52BY MICHAEL MALIK • MMALIK@JOURNALANDCOURIER.COM • FEBRUARY 16, 2009
About six weeks ago, three local robotics teams from area high schools received a kit of parts.
The teams -- from West Lafayette, Harrison and Jefferson -- had to turn the parts into a robot that could pick up a ball and shoot it at a target as part of the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Robot challenge pulls kids into library
Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 15:03By Dorothy Schneider • dschneider@journalandcourier.com • October 5, 2008
The cups didn't stand a chance against the robot that Joey Marris of West Lafayette and his teammates helped assemble Saturday afternoon.
Twelve-year-old Marris joined other area youth at the Tippecanoe County Public Library to assemble and test Lego Mindstorm robots.
The robot challenges ranged from pushing rows of cups off a table to rolling a ball into a cup to "sumo wrestling" the other robots.