Subscribe RSSFifty-four teams from across the stately and nearby Massachusetts competed in three two and a half minute robot competitions on Saturday. The competition teaches engineering, programming and difficulty solving skills. The teams hoped the robots they built with LEGO blocks, a tiny computer brain, and hours upon hours of attempt and error could complete each task, called missions. The missions in miniature included each robot trying to bring a limited plastic truck full of farm fresh produce back to base, washing plastic bacteria in a LEGO fall, retrieving plastic fish and dropping a thermometer spindle down to represent a cold storage temperature.
Several teams from East Discretion participated; Two teams from Martin Middle School, two teams from Riverside Middle School, a team from Gordon Teaching and another from St. Mary Academy, Bayview. The team from Bayview; S.M.A.R.T. (St. Mary Academy Robotics Team) won a third place award in the robotics striving. They also won the project presentation award.
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