Billings Gazette Article

Billings Gazette Article

A robot named Nemonoid wheels toward a plastic crate and grabs it by snapping its thin metal arms. Then an angled conveyor belt inside the robot scoops racquetballs from the floor and spits them into the crate.

Seven teens on a Girl Scout team built the robot, which is pushing, scooping, lifting and driving its way toward a world championship robotics tournament in April.

The team, made up of high school students from the Billings Career Center's Engineering Club, already captured the most prestigious prize at the Montana robotics tournament in Bozeman in early February.

The robotics competition, known as the FIRST Tech Challenge, scores teams on their ability to get a robot to do specific tasks in a limited amount of time. FIRST is an acronym -- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology...

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