Palouse Area Robotics Team to compete at EWU

Teresa Simpson, Whitman County Gazette | Apr 06, 20230

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Andrew Kranick, of Colfax, and Isaac White, of Moscow work on their arm grabber robot.

4-H Palouse Area Robotics Team (PART), consisting of high school students ages 14 to 18 from Colfax, Pullman, Moscow, and the surrounding area, earned a spot in the upcoming FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) PNW District Championships to be held at Eastern Washington University at Reece Court on Thursday, April 6 through Friday, April 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The PART SciBorgs will compete against 49 of the top robotics teams in the PNW, with 120 teams from Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.

The students re-designed the arm grabber to be more reliable and robust after the Sundome competition, expl...