Local students score big in robotics competiton

GROVE CITY – Local middle and high school students scored second place in a robotics competition.Held over the last two days of October at Grove City College, the students competed in the BEST Robotics competition.The local team, comprised of students from Grove City Area School District and Butler County, were formed by The Constructive, a Grove City nonprofit organization. Under the team name Prototech, students competed under two formats.They were judged by a robot they built. And then they pitched to judges how they would create and market the robot as a business.Teams have eight weeks to build and program a robot for a sports-style game, then pitch it to judges as a product.

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