South Bend students win robotics awards

by Kelli Cheatham (kcheatham@wsbt.com)

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South Bend students win robotics awards

By WSBT News1

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.

Wednesday, Mar 26 at 4:33 PM Anonymous wrote ...

What? Kids from South Bend winning something? Why that's impossible! Students in SB schools never do anything good, it's all bad news. At least that's what we're often led to believe.

Tuesday, Mar 25 at 3:10 PM Las Pumas Mom wrote ...

New Prairie and Penn High Schools also have robotics teams that all made it to the finals at the Purdue Boilermaker Regional Event. The students on all of these teams deserve congratulations! We are so proud of all of the Michiana teams for showing such gracious professionalism.

Tuesday, Mar 25 at 8:51 AM DZ wrote ...

Congratulations to all of the students and staff !!! Good Luck in Chicago and Purdue !

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