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"Robots Rule as Competition Season Heats Up"

STEM | Feature

Robots Rule as Competition Season Heats Up

Robotics has become a phenomenon in K-12. Tens of thousands of teams composed of literally hundreds of thousands of K-12 students will compete in robotics events worldwide in 2012 alone. Yet, with all of this activity, robotics programs are only in 10 percent of the schools in the United States.
  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 04/17/12
Worldwide competitions dominate robotics news in April. But Team Antipodes (tagline: "One Robot to Rule Them All...") has gone as far as it chooses to. Although it will attend the FIRST Championship with its latest robot, Archie (short for Archimedes), taking place in St. Louis at the end of April, the three young women who make up the team expect to spend a lot of their time meeting up with friends and cheering each other on.

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