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Students build robots; learn life skills

VERSAILLES – “Roboting is the hook we use to get them interested,” said Head Referee Scott Milligan. FIRST LEGO League challenges students to think like scientists and engineers… but they have to be motivated. Roboting does it.

Milligan, judges, coaches, volunteers and 10 junior high school teams convened on the old Versailles High School campus at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 21. Students ran their robots through multiple practice sessions and fine-tuned the adjustments that would allow their creations to perform a series of complicated tasks, from picking up and dumping “trash” to recycling it.

Show time was 12:30 p.m. Ten teams from as far away as Toledo, and as close as next door neighbor Russia, were introduced to the crowd. Shortly after that students began the competition. Their robots had to complete a half dozen complicated maneuvers within a two-and-one-half minute time frame. They get three opportunities to get their best score...

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