Western High School is hosting 40 robotics teams from across Indiana this weekend. The second of four qualifying events, Western High School's main gym, cafeteria, and classrooms will be taken over by robots. Greenwood will host state finals April 3-5 at Center Grove High School.
Teams competing this weekend include the TechnoKats Robotics Team from Kokomo High School, PantherTech from Westen High School, and CyberTooth from Northwestern High School.
Teams have been working since Jan. 4 to design, prototype, fabricate, and program robots for this year’s competition. Over the course of two days, teams will compete in a series of qualification matches that lead to the top eight teams choosing their alliance for the playoffs. After qualifications, those eight alliances play a double-elimination style tournament to determine the winning alliance.
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FIRST Robotics events are free and open to the public.
FIRST Indiana Robotics is a robotics community that prepares young people for the future through a suite of inclusive, team-based robotics programs for ages 4-18 (PreK-12) that can be facilitated in school or in structured after-school programs in Indiana. Boosted by the FIRST® global support system of volunteers, educators, and sponsors that include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies, our teams operate under a signature set of FIRST Core Values to conduct research, fundraise, design, build, and showcase their achievements during annual challenges.
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