Robotics season ends at State Championships

Penn High School Robotics Team 135 earned a No. 5 seed entering the finals in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) State Championships at Kokomo on April 11-13, but did not earn a berth to the World Championships in Detroit on April 24-27.

The top 32 high school FRC teams in Indiana – including Penn – designed and constructed four-foot tall, 120-pound fully functional robots in a six-week period. The top 32 teams advanced to the State Championships through competition at Penn, and in Indianapolis and West Lafayette.

Each team competed through 64 qualifying matches, partnering with various alliances. Team 135 finished fourth overall winning in the qualifying matches with a 7-4-1 record. In the quarterfinals, Team 135 teamed up with Maverick Robotics Team 4272 and Red Alert Team 1741, but did not advance to the semifinals.