Robotics Competition details
FIRST Robotics Competition NASA/VCU Regional
When: today and tomorrow, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Where: Siegel Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1200 W. Broad St.
Admission: The event is free to the public.
What: The competition challenges high school students, working with professional mentors, to design and build a robot as a solution to a technical engineering problem that changes each year. Teams have six weeks to conceptualize, design, build, program, modify and test a robot for competition. In this year's game, called "Lunacy," robots are designed to pick up 9-inch game balls and land them in trailers hitched to their opponents' robots for points during a 2-minute, 15-second match.
Richmond-area teams competing
Chesterfield County: L.C. Bird, James River and Midlothian high schoolsHenrico County: Henrico, J.R. Tucker, Hermitage, Mills E. Godwin, Highland Springs and Deep Run high schools
Richmond: Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies; Trinity Episcopal School; and Richmond Community, Benedictine, St. Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson high schools
Hanover County: Atlee and Hanover high schools
Goochland County: Goochland High School
Hopewell: Hopewell High School
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