Team SCREAM left the FIRST Robotics regional competition with the “Rookie All Star” award, a ticket to next month’s world championships and the respect of squads that have been involved in the contest for years.
Michael Wright, Smith-Cotton High School industrial technology teacher and Team SCREAM (Smith-Cotton Robotics, Engineering and Mathematics) sponsor, said the team “didn’t do as well competitively as we hoped,” but still came out as the top first-year program at the competition, held last weekend in Kansas City; that distinction moves the team to the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) world championships, set for April 24-27 in St. Louis.
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