South Bend students win robotics awards

by Kelli Cheatham (kcheatham@wsbt.com)

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Story Created: Mar 25, 2008 at 7:18 AM EDT

Story Updated: Mar 25, 2008 at 8:42 AM EDT

SOUTH BEND — Some of the best and brightest students in our area put all their skills together to build robots and take them to competitions. One of the area teams, SBOTZ, is made up of high school and middle school students from the South Bend School Corporation.

SBOTZ students won the Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award this year. It celebrates "an elegant and advantageous design feature." The robotics program has been in South Bend schools for 5 years, but the FIRST Robotics Competition program began nationwide in the early 1990s.

The students in SBOTZ are wrapping up their season, but this year they traveled to tournaments at the University of Illinois Chicago campus as well as Purdue University.

The students are from Clay, Adams, Washington and Riley high schools. There are also 3 students from LaSalle Academy.

For more information on SBOTZ, visit their website.

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