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5 days ago Share The Blackout Robotics team won the VEX Robotics state championship for the second year in a row.
When most teenagers spend the night at a friend’s house, they stay up all night playing video games or watching movies. But when one group of Suncoast Polytechnical High School students stay up late, they are working on competition-ready robots.
“We spend almost every Saturday at my house working,” Cannon Spencer said. “Sometimes we are programming, sometimes we’re building or tweaking the robot all throughout the night just to prepare for competition.”
That dedication has paid off. For the second year in a row students from Suncoast Polytechnical High School won the VEX Robotics state championship.
An arch bridge breaks inward under pressure.Buy this Photo
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2021 | Staci LaPorte, a math teacher at Suncoast Polytechnical High School, got in on the fun and entered her own bridge into the contest. Her bridge started crushing just under 15 pounds of pressure.Buy this Photo
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2021 | Staci LaPorte, a math teacher at Suncoast Polytechnical High School, takes video of her bridge being tested.Buy this Photo
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2021 | Maria Becerra, a freshman at Suncoast Polytechnical High School, and Kamryn Barker, a sophomore at the school, wait in line to have their bridges tested.Buy this Photo
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