Penn robotics team loses – South Bend Tribune

Posted: April 30, 2017 at 10:28 pm

An area robotics team finished competition Saturday at the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship in St. Louis.

Penn Robotics Team 135, a squad composed of 11th- and 12th-graders, ranked fourth out of 68 teams in its division after two days of qualification. They had been ranked as high as No. 2 before dropping back a couple positions.

Team 135, making its 18th trip to the national championship in the last 20 years, was eliminated Saturday in the quarterfinals.

Three other local teams earned spots in St. Louis as well.

Team Toxic, a team of seventh-to-12th-graders, competed in the FIRST Tech Challenge for smaller, detail-oriented robots; Flufflepuff, a fourth-to-ninth-grade team was in the FIRST Lego League and there was also a FIRST Lego League Jr. Team for kids from kindergarten through fourth grade.

Toxic and Flufflepuff are based at the Granger Exploration and Robotics Studio. The Lego League Jr. is affiliated with the Boys & Girls Club of St. Joseph County.

Results for those teams were not immediately available.

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