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2009 FIRST Robotics Competition Palmetto Regional huge success
More than 1,000 students and 44 robots invaded Littlejohn Coliseum, and made the sixth annual FIRST Robotics Competition Palmetto Regional a crazy success. In this year's game, student robots were designed to compete in a game called "Lunacy" that aimed to launch as many moon rocks as possible into opposing robots in a specified amount of time.
Clemson University hosted the sixth annual FIRST Robotics Competition Palmetto Regional March 26-28. Forty-four teams representing nine states (Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Tennessee and West Virginia) and Brazil participated.
Regional winners of the competition included the alliance of three teams: team 1771 from North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Ga; team 2415 from the Westminster Schools-High School in Atlanta, Ga.; and team 21 from Astronaut and Titusville high schools in Titusville, Fla.
These three teams now have the opportunity to compete in the international championship competition April 16-18 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Worldwide, more than 35,000 high school students participate on more than 1,500 teams in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands and England.
Clemson is a nationally recognized research university where approximately 5,500 students are enrolled in engineering and science undergraduate and graduate courses. There are 350 faculty in the College of Engineering and Science. Connect to http://www.clemson.edu/ces for more information.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen, developer of the first portable insulin pump and the first portable kidney dialysis machine, to "create a world where science and technology are celebrated where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes."
