Blue Phoenix Rises to take on High School Robotics Competition, Sprockets on Winning Alliance
Grove School eighth-graders Emma Knight, Conner Vorndran and Daniel Bowlan watch over and control their robot, Sapphira, during the Oklahoma Regionals FIRST Robotics Competition, held at FireLake Arena on April 5. They are members of the new community robotics team called Blue Phoenix, which is housed at OBU and led by Lori Farris, a teacher at Grove. Natasha Dunagan, Countywide & Sun
Forty-eight teams competed in the Oklahoma Regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, which was held at Fire-Lake Arena, April 2-5.
Most of those teams (33) were from Oklahoma. Others traveled from Colorado, Missouri and Arkansas. One made the trip from Durango, Mexico, and one came all the way from Chinese Taipei.
