JAY — The Spruce Mountain Area Robotic Team (S.M.A.R.T.) kicked off their 2014 robot build season with a public pasta supper on Saturday with high hopes and a team of energetic, inspiring teenagers. Along with pasta, a wide assortment of foods were on the menu, and a video outlining the team’s accomplishments in the past […]
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Lewiston students take first round of robotics competition
BRUNSWICK — Robots descended upon Southern Maine Community College’s Brunswick campus on Tuesday morning, sending young people there into a near-frenzy. But it was a learning experience, not an invasion. About 50 teens from Portland, Lewiston and Kennebunk high schools gathered at the campus on the former Navy base to pit their robots against each […]
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Lego-leaguers seek to tackle toy-sized disasters
The toy robots Maine middle schoolers will be showing off Saturday may not save a life, but the thinking that goes into them could, according to Maine Robotics organizers. “The robots are part of it, but the other part is doing a lot of research,” said Desiree Spaulding, teacher for the Lewiston School Department’s gifted […]
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RSU 10 board hears Andover request, sees robotics demo
DIXFIELD — The RSU 10 board Tuesday heard an update from the Andover Withdrawal Committee and unanimously approved robotics teams in all RSU 10 middle and high schools. David Percival of the Withdrawal Committee said Andover could send up to 60 middle andhigh school students to RSU 10 if residents vote later this year to […]
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Robotics team at DMS preparing for state competition
DIXFIELD — Dirigo Middle School students gathered around a box of Legos this week, choosing the right pieces that could be turned into a computer-programmed robot. Kim Dailey, leader of the robotics after-school program, said heading up the program is something he has always been interested in. And so are the boys. “I’m really good […]