July 24, 2008
Polytechnic is 7th in robotics contest
A robotics team from Polytechnic Institute placed seventh in a worldwide competition held last week in California.
The Baltimore school system sent 36 students from eight high schools to the VEX Robotics World Championship at the University of California at Northridge on May 2-3. A team from Western High School won the award for enthusiasm and team spirit.
City school system officials say no other school district had as many teams in the competition, which drew students from as far as China and Brazil. Polytechnic and Western sent two teams each. Other Baltimore teams were from W.E.B. DuBois High, Carver Vocational-Technical High, Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High and Homeland Security Academy. There was a combined team from Dunbar High and Patterson High.
Each team had to control a robot it built to place tennis balls on different sections of a bridge platform.
The city school system's robotics program enrolls about 130 students from nine high schools.
Sara Neufeld
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