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FIRST Robotics Competition

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  • August 15, 2016
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Teams of high schoolers from all over the area gathered in Comcast Center from April 3-5 to compete in the First Robotics Chesapeake Regional Competition. For this year's challenge, each team has spent months building a robot capable of picking up and shooting a large rubber ball into a target.

Teams of high schoolers from all over the area gathered in Comcast Center from April 3-5 to compete in the First Robotics Chesapeake Regional Competition. For this year’s challenge, each team has spent months building a robot capable of picking up and shooting a large rubber ball into a target.

Teams of high schoolers from all over the area gathered in Comcast Center from April 3-5 to compete in the First Robotics Chesapeake Regional Competition. For this year’s challenge, each team has spent months building a robot capable of picking up and shooting a large rubber ball into a target.

Red Alert cheers after their team’s score is announced after a match. Teams of high schoolers from all over the area gathered in Comcast Center from April 3-5 to compete in the First Robotics Chesapeake Regional Competition. For this year’s challenge, each team has spent months building a robot capable of picking up and shooting a large rubber ball into a target.

A robot driver waits to load her team’s controls into place before a match.

Teams of high schoolers from all over the area gathered in Comcast Center from April 3-5 to compete in the First Robotics Chesapeake Regional Competition. For this year’s challenge, each team has spent months building a robot capable of picking up and shooting a large rubber ball into a target.

A team member celebrates after their robot successfully shoots a ball through the target.

The Comcast Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5.

The Comcast Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5. 

The Comcast Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5. James Laukzemis, a senior at the Atholton High School, talks to an audience in front of the team’s tent.

 Kevin Hsiao, a junior at The Park School of Baltimore, looks at his team’s robot.

A McDonough senior Ian Fitzhugh accompanies McKenzie Gardner, a child during the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5 in the Comcast Center.

Lauren Eickmeier, a tenth grader in Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby, ON, Canada, poses with a person in a unicorn mask.

The Comcast Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5.

The Comcast Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5.

The Comcast Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5.

The Comcast Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition on April 3 through April 5. A Dulaney High senior Rashid Taleb checks up on his team’s robot.

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