FIRST Robotics Competition

Springfield, Massachusetts, was home to a battle of the bots over the weekend as Western New England University hosted well over a thousand volunteers, parents and kids devoted to robotics – all for a competition geared toward getting a new generation of learners involved in STEM.

A Saratoga County 4-H robotics team is raising money to go to the World Championships next month.

Young people have been hearing for years about the link between emerging technology and their 21st century future. So it’s no surprise that robotics is an increasingly popular sport for middle and high schoolers.

The Albany High School robotics team will be competing at the national level in Texas.

Imagine this; two teams of three robots each are pitted against each other in an area to fling projectiles and climb to the top of a steel pyramid.That’s…