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The pits are busy Sunday afternoon between rounds at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Lydia Moreland, left, speaks Sunday afternoon with teammate Zoey Leavitt during a break at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Moreland and Leavitt are on Team 4041-Iron Tigers from Gardiner. They are strategizing about what went wrong earlier in the day and how they can do better in the upcoming final rounds. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
William Cooper, right, of Richmond, part of Team 4473-Delta Prime Robotics 4-H, talks strategy Sunday afternoon with at team from Vermont after the two teams formed an alliance at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
A toolbox in the pits Sunday afternoon at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Violet Bellerose of Jay, the only Spruce Mountain High School team member on Team 6153-The Blue Crew from Mt. Blue, listens Sunday afternoon to teammates discuss strategy at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
William Cooper, right, of Richmond, part of Team 4473-Delta Prime Robotics 4-H, talks strategy Sunday afternoon with at team from Vermont after the two teams formed an alliance at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Honora White of Team 8023-Androscoggin Argonauts carries her control station Sunday afternoon to the arena at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Team 7907 from Whitefield, New Hampshire, works on its robot Sunday afternoon before the final rounds of competition at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Lucas Philbrook, left, and Lochlan Aldrich, second from left, of the Morse Unified Robotics team watch Sunday afternoon as their robot navigates the course at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
The finals kick off Sunday afternoon at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

 

Dan Joler of Waterville, part of Team 2648-Infinite Loop, attaches a wheel Sunday afternoon to the team’s robot in the pits during a break before the finals at the Pine Tree District FIRST Robotics Competition at The Colisée in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...