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Andover High, Andover Robotics Club Host State Championships
The March 5 event featured 36 robotics teams from around MA. The AHS all-girls team Hailstorm walked away with the Promote Award.
ANDOVER, MA — Andover High School and the school's Andover Robotics Club (ARC) hosted the FIRST Tech Challenge State Championships for the first time ever earlier this month.
The event took place on March 5 at the high school and brought together 36 teams, featuring 500 participants, from around Massachusetts.
The teams competed — and collaborated — in this year's FIRST Tech Challenge game, PowerPlay. In the game, teams control robots — which they built and coded — trying to collect cones and place them on various spots around the playing field.
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The ARC has three teams of its own: Thunder, Lightning and Hailstorm, the latter an all-girls team.
At the state competition, ARC Hailstorm earned the Promote Award, for a promotional video that they created.
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Meanwhile, ARC Lightning was awarded the second-place Design Award, given for robot structure.
Patch featured the Andover Robotics Club last month.
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