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Wheeler Robotics Team Wins Qualifier

The CircuitRunners have advanced to state competition in the FIRST Tech Challenge in March.

The Wheeler High School Robotics Team, The CircuitRunners, won a state qualifier in the FIRST Tech Challenge on Feb. 4, 2012.

They were the only team in Georgia to score a magnet ball in the official field goal, doing it four times. The CircuitRunners also obtained first place as the wining alliance, and were mentioned in four of the six FTC awards.

The FIRST Tech Challenge is an intermediate robotics competition, designed for 14- to 18-year-old high-school students, where teams of up to 10 students working alongside mentors apply real-world math and science concepts to solve an annual challenge.

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Students compete and cooperate in team alliances at sport-type tournaments that are ultimately helping to create the next generation of technology leaders. Through their involvement with FIRST, students discover the rewards of collaboration, develop a deeper understanding of innovation and engineering.

The state competition is March 3 at Southern Polytechnic State University.


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