RoboBOTS: Meadville Area Senior High School

Keith Gushard, The Meadville Tribune, Pa.
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Apr. 6—RoboBOTS is a hands-on robot-building contest for high school and middle school students sponsored by the northwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association.

The program started in the 2006-07 school year to create student interest in technical education careers.

A total of 32 teams from 14 schools from Crawford, Erie and Mercer counties are set to do battle at Meadville Area Senior High starting at 9 a.m. today. Admission to the competition is free. Doors at the school will open at 8.

Leading up to this year's competition, The Meadville Tribune will provide information on the participating schools.

Meadville Area Senior High School

Team name: The Devious Half Dozen

Bot name: The Prowler

Team members: Zachary Middendorf, Raelyn Rusek, Chuck Koerner, Aiden Rudolph, Jamie Teasdale and Charlie Frey

----Team name: Venomized

Bot name: Iron Man

Team members: Daniel Michaelson, Paarth Pandey, Jean Cruz-Parkhurst and Graham Shellhaas

----Team name: Bucket of Bolts

Bot name: Scrap Heap

Team members: Webb Jacobs, Alivia Gomora, Brian Amacher and Sophiah Turner

Keith Gushard can be reached at (814) 724-6370 or by email at kgushard@meadvilletribune.com.