03/23/2016
By Edwin L. Aguirre
More than 30 middle-school and high-school students from the Merrimack Valley spent six weeks at UMass Lowell, designing and building a robot for the international FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. The team made a big splash in the first round, garnering the “Rookie All-Star Award” at the North Shore District Competition. The students will advance to the next round of the contest, which is part of a global competition that draws more than 75,000 participants from 24 countries.