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Discuss “Local team takes first in high school robotics competition”

?We were a rookie team ? we had borrowed tools in a Shop ?n? Save bag ? but the rookie team won out,? said Michael Dischner, the advisor of the McKeesport High School team that won the FIRST Pittsburgh Regional Robotics Competition on March 12. While this year?s FIRST competition is a true story of an underdog?s amazing triumph, its happy ending has yet to come: The McKeesport team may not have enough financial support to continue on to the national competition.

This year, the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition took place on the University of Pittsburgh?s campus March 10?12. Thirty-two high school teams from all over the United States and Canada, with four from the Pittsburgh area, gathered at the...

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