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Newport High Robotics Team Win Regional, Head to World Championships [VIDEO]

Robotics team members from Newport High and International School, which helped protect Newport's robot during game play, will head to the upcoming world championships in St. Louis.

Newport High School's robotics team and Frisbee-throwing robot will head to St. Louis later this month to compete with robots all over the world after winning the recent Seattle Regional FIRST (For Inspiration of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. 

Players from International School, whose robot assisted Newport's robot in the tournament, will also go to the FIRST championship.

They will go head to head at the FIRST 2013 Championship with robotics teams from all over the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Israel and the Dominican Republic on April 24 - 27.

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Bellevue School District provided the following information about the win:

Congratulations to the Newport High School, whose undefeated, Frisbee-throwing robot won the recent Seattle Regional FIRST (For Inspiration of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition.  Newport and its championship alliance partner International School, which helped protect Newport’s robot during game play, are both heading to the upcoming world championships in St. Louis.

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Students had just six weeks to build a remote-controlled robot using a standard kit of parts and a common set of rules. Once at the high-energy competition, teams from 64 schools across the region competed to see whose robot could toss the most Frisbees through a goal at the end of the field.  

The Newport Robotics Group’s (NRG948) had the highest scoring robot out of 64 teams in the regional competition.  NRG948 also went undefeated in the competition.  NRG948 was the #1 seed going into the finals and was able to choose its alliance partners.  It looked to International School’s Titan Robotics, which finished as the 26th seed with a 5-4 record, as well as Aviation High School from Highline School District.  Newport also received the Engineering Inspiration Award.

Interlake High School was the #4 seed after the qualifying rounds, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals.  Interlake also won the FIRST Entrepreneurship Award.  Sammamish was part of the alliance that beat Interlake and finished as the #52 seed.  Bellevue High finished as the #40 seed.  Congratulations to all the Bellevue competitors.  

Good luck to NRG948 and Titan Robotics in St. Louis!  The Newport and International teams were generously supported by The Boeing Company, Microsoft, Western Integrated Technologies, Center for Advanced Manufacturing Puget Sound, Coinstar, Bellevue Schools Foundation, Birdwell Machine, Renton Technical College, Kiva Systems, Spectrum Controls, Olympic Ironworks, Reliance Manufacturing, Bellevue Sunrise Rotary, ITT Technical Institute, PTSA, OSPI, CH2M Hill, MB Metals, and Dr. Fidler, DDS and the many mentors who volunteer their time. Several Boeing employees serve as volunteers and team mentors. 


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