MTS develops competitive robotics program

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A new and innovative enterprise is on a trajectory at MTS High School in south Minneapolis.  It will be the first competitive robotics team at MTS and a boost for STEM program at the school promoting science, technology, engineering and math interests.  The FIRST team begins with 13 students, nearly half of them from MTS Middle School.  The FIRST acronym is “For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology.”

Students assemble a robot to compete in a castle-like setting, breaching defenses, throwing balls called boulders and capturing opponent towers.  They travel in early March to the Lake Superior Regional competition in Duluth.