Despite pandemic, SoPo robotics team gears up for online competition
The team is gearing up for virtual events this year.
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South Portland High School students, clockwise from left, Nick Duffy, Ben Gaudreau, Vinnie Martinez and Tyler Hanson, pose with their team’s robot in 2019 at the FIRST Robotics competition in Reading, Massachusetts.
Contributed / Sean Manning
SOUTH PORTLAND — The coronavirus pandemic may be hampering efforts by teens statewide to participate in extracurricular activities, but the robotics team at South Portland High School isn’t letting the COVID-19 pandemic hold them back.
The team, made of up 11 high school students, participates in annual competitions organized by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), a global organization started by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 to encourage interest in the fields of science and technology.