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ROBOTICS
12:50 pm
Sat January 5, 2013

Robot Competition Powers Up In St. Louis

Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Peter Prombo Cates (left) and Chirag Doshi, students at Gateway Institute of Technology in St. Louis, carry their team’s robot off the playing field during the FIRST Robotics Competition regional round in St. Louis in 2011.
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Ready...Set... Go build a robot that can go play a game that looks a little like disc golf meets American Gladiators! 

Oh, we're going to need a website with that, too, and you have around two months to get everything ready to go. 

Sound daunting?

That’s the challenge that was set before nearly 40 teams of high school students from across the region that assembled at the St. Louis Science Center on Saturday for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. 

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Robotics
11:27 am
Thu March 22, 2012

"Final Four of Smarts" robotics competition takes over Chaifetz Arena

Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Teams of teens will be competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition regional at Chaifetz Arena this weekend.
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Forty-three teams of teens from Missouri and four surrounding states be competing in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition regional this weekend at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis.

(You can see a full feature on last year's FIRST competition here, too).

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Robotics
6:35 am
Tue April 26, 2011

Student-made robots take over Chaifetz Arena. Next stop? The Edward Jones Dome!

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Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Peter Prombo Cates (left) and Chirag Doshi, students at Gateway Institute of Technology in St. Louis, carry their team’s robot off the playing field.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Perpetual Chaos team members Peter Prombo Cates, Josh Kish, coach Frank Dressel, and team members Liz Arnold and Chirag Doshi (left to right) will compete with their robot in the FIRST Robotics Championship this week.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Team members from the Ratchet Rockers (Wentzville School District, in blue) Rob Fletcher (front) and Matt Moore help Perpetual Chaos team members (in green) repair their robot.
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Home-schoolers Camryn Vrbka (left, from Old Monroe, Mo.) and siblings Elizabeth and Bryan Stearns (from St. Peters, Mo.) are members of the FIRST Robotics team the Channel Cats, which won the St. Louis Regional Chairman’s Award.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Matt Duelo (left, Hazelwood Central High School) and Cameron Dozier (North County Technical High School) get their Robohawks robot ready for “autonomous mode” at the start of a match.
Credit (John Zeman, St. Louis FIRST Robotics)
Spectators watch as participants prepare the field for a FIRST Robotics Regional competition match at Saint Louis University’s Chaifetz Arena.
Credit (Scott Schneider)
Robohawks mentor Mike Duello and team members Brandon Cannon, Evan Mensinger, Sarah Harter and Jaylen Taylor (left to right) work on their robot.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Normandy High School students Dajuan Drake, Dushon Brackins, Bianca Bailey (seated), J’von Coleman, Binder Kayland, and teacher Patsy Issom-Harper (left to right) cheer on their team.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
Students Latisha Hall, Ashley Hunt, Bianca Bailey, and Justin Battiest are members of the NYACK team from Normandy High School.
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Camdenton 4-H LASER team members Brandon Kapp, Mitchell Woodside, Blake Barbour and Stephanie McQueen (left to right, Camdenton High School) show off their St. Louis Regional winning alliance medals.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
John Gillis and Danielle Sylve (team mentor) watch the St. Louis Regional FIRST Robotics awards ceremony. Their team, the Army Ants of Columbia, Mo., won two best rookie team awards this year.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
The goal of this year’s FIRST Robotics competition is for robots to hang inner-tube-like shapes on pegs to form the FIRST logo (red triangle, white circle, and blue square).
Credit (John Zeman, St. Louis FIRST Robotics)
In the pit area, the FIRST Robotics teams prepare their robots for competition.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio)
The Robohawks (Florissant, Mo.), Robo-Lions (University City, Mo.) and Camdenton 4-H LASER (Camdenton, Mo.) won this year’s St. Louis Regional FIRST Robotics competition.
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This week in St. Louis, close to 9,000 high school students from five countries will compete in the FIRST Robotics Championship.

Teams of student-built, remote-control robots will take to the field at the Edward Jones Dome. Organizers hope the competition will draw more than 20,000 spectators and generate at least $18 million in local spending.

Véronique LaCapra was at the St. Louis Regional event in March and has this inside look at the competition.

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