An area robotics team finished competition Saturday at the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship in St. Louis. <\/p>\n
Penn Robotics Team 135, a squad composed of 11th- and 12th-graders, ranked fourth out of 68 teams in its division after two days of qualification. They had been ranked as high as No. 2 before dropping back a couple positions. <\/p>\n
Team 135, making its 18th trip to the national championship in the last 20 years, was eliminated Saturday in the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n
Three other local teams earned spots in St. Louis as well. <\/p>\n
Team Toxic, a team of seventh-to-12th-graders, competed in the FIRST Tech Challenge for smaller, detail-oriented robots; Flufflepuff, a fourth-to-ninth-grade team was in the FIRST Lego League and there was also a FIRST Lego League Jr. Team for kids from kindergarten through fourth grade. <\/p>\n
Toxic and Flufflepuff are based at the Granger Exploration and Robotics Studio. The Lego League Jr. is affiliated with the Boys & Girls Club of St. Joseph County. <\/p>\n
Results for those teams were not immediately available. <\/p>\n
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