They had six weeks. That meant six weeks to come up with an idea, build and test it out.

Stevens County made its mark in the FIRST Robotics world last weekend. Both Kettle Falls and Northport high schools have teams in the program.

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Anthony Arroyo, a junior at Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts, tightens the motor on his robot before competing in The VEX Robotics Competition. Anthony Arroyo, a junior at Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts, tightens the motor on his robot before competing in The VEX Robotics Competition.

Judy Zhang, center, the facilitator for the Girls Who Code Club, shows a talk during a gathering at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library in Tiburon on Saturday. Eight girls worked away at their laptops with ferocious concentration Saturday, sitting in a high-ceilinged room in Tiburon reminiscent of a tech firm.

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The robot – built on wheels and featuring a claw-type shovel – perched on the table in the cafeteria at Doe Creek Middle School. Several students from Brandywine Elementary School gathered around it, double-checking things to make sure it was ready to roll.

The Lego League State Robotics Competition brought the 36 best teams of students between fourth and eighth grades together to compete to find the most skilled robot built of legos. “They all start with a base layer robot and you can add any other lego pieces you want onto that base lego robot and then they give you 15 different skills you have to get done in your 2.5 minute window,” says Bob Getka, computer science and robotics instructor.

Richard Bammer – The Reporter The RoboVikes’ robot, Ragnarok, a word taken from Norse mythology, meaning a series of future events, including a great battle, a story that predicted the death of major Norse figures, Odin and Thor among them. Will Ragnarok – a motorized, whirring, ball-shooting machine that scoots across a floor like a Tasmanian devil – take down the competition in Sacramento and Boise? A name derived from Norse mythology, the Vanden High School robotics team’s creation certainly looked formidable, that’s for sure, in a practice round earlier this week in a nondescript portable building on the Markeley Lane campus in Fairfield.

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The Albany student-created, startup community with benefits app-The MASH Card- continues to expand its student community, their vendor offerings and new viral events and needs junior programmers to round out the new CTO Team. ALBANY, N.Y. – Feb. 17, 2017 – PRLog — With a new website and fully-functioning app a month from completion, The MASH Card needs to add junior programmers to the team to continue its technology expansion.

Cornerstone Prep sixth-grader Jacob Freiler, left, works with fifth-grader Sarah Sanabia and sixth-grader Patrick Garner on the school’s Lego Robotics team.

I am gingerly following a narrow, stone walkway, but then the path ends abruptly. Ahead and above is nothing but sky.

First Lego League is a unique competition. It’s a multi-faceted experience that gives students fifth through sixth-grade the chance to put to practice what they learn in the classroom.

Valve is working on three new virtual reality games, which company chief Gabe Newell describes as full games rather than tech demos. At a media round-table at the company’s Bellevue, Washington headquarters yesterday, Newell said that the games represent a second generation of VR releases, which will be longer and more in-depth than previous demo-like experiences.

Having recently taken first place honors the “Byron Ramblers” Robotics team, fourth and fifth graders from Byron Intermediate School, will advance to the state tournament Saturday, February 25 at Washington Magnet School in St. Paul. The Byron Ramblers took first place honors in three categories: Robot Design, Robot Performance and the Head to Head Competition at the Regional Tournament held in Rochester in December, advanced to the section tournament in St. Paul on January 7, and from there earned state birth honors.

John Muscarnero works to defend the “Blue Team” from a cyber attack that posted this “You have been hacked” message on team’s website during a cyber wargame exercise Monday, February 6, 2017 at the Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette The way to hack an oil refinery seemed rather basic, or “basisk” to a team of potential hackers playing the part of nation-state, backed perhaps by the Chinese or Russian governments.

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The find, made as part of NASA’s twin study of Scott and Mark Kelly, could have major implications for prolonged trips – to the red planet, for instance. Northwestern researchers are comparing the effect of living at zero gravity for a year on a human’s gut microbiota – the ‘bugs’ found naturally in the gastrointestinal tract to aid digestion.

Northwestern University researchers studying the gut bacteria of Scott and Mark Kelly, NASA astronauts and identical twin brothers, as part of a unique human study have found that changes to certain gut “bugs” occur in space. The Northwestern team is one of 10 NASA-funded research groups studying the Kelly twins to learn how living in space for a long period of time – such as a mission to Mars – affects the human body.

A soft robotic sleeve placed around the heart in a pig model of acute heart failure. The actuators embedded in the sleeve support heart function by mimicking the outer heart muscles that induce the heart to beat.

Van Wert High School hosted the Northern Ohio First Tech Challenge Robotics Competition on Saturday with 28 teams and about 300 students participating in the event. Van Wert has hosted the competition three times, but this was the first year the Van Wert High School Robotics Club was able to participate in the competition as well to try to advance to the state championship in Columbus.

SpaceX is livestreaming a competition between hyperloop pods from outside their headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and at least one Los Angeles newspaper is also covering the event live on Facebook . “This competition is the first of its kind anywhere in the world,” SpaceX writes, noting that 27 teams put their pods through a “litany” of pre-qualifying tests hoping to qualify for a run on the track on “Rocket Road” .

The George R. Brown Convention Center will host the NFL Experience in Houston. Super Bowl LI will be played Feb. 5 at NRG Stadium in Houston.

Elon Musk-inspired hyperloopers battle in LA The futuristic high-speed transportation alternative might get a boost from new administration. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2ke4l4J Is Hyperloop travel really the next big thing in tech, or just hot air talk? Jefferson Graham weighs in with members of the #TalkingTech roundtable podcast, for this new concept in super high-speed travel.

The team at Vista Magnet Middle School that designed a science experiment to go up to the Space Station, LtoR: Isabel Camacho, Evie Currington, Isabella Ansell, Sydney Wagner, Charlotte Currington Jaunary 26, 2017 The team at Vista Magnet Middle School that designed a science experiment to go up to the Space Station, LtoR: Isabel Camacho, Evie Currington, Isabella Ansell, Sydney Wagner, and Charlotte Currington . Jaunary 26, 2017 The team at Vista Magnet Middle School that designed a science experiment to go up to the Space Station, LtoR: Isabel Camacho, Evie Currington, Isabella Ansell, Sydney Wagner, and Charlotte Currington .

ROBOTICS RAGE: Area students build success, 1 at a time School robotics teams teach students STEM skills, teamwork and confidence Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://stargaz.tt/2k7pqxY Two days before the competition, Horseheads Intermediate School’s two teams squeezed in a final practice at the high school pool, fine-tuning their robots in the 45 minutes between a gym class and a swim team practice. The objective of their underwater ROV – remotely operated vehicle – was to drive to the bottom of the pool, pick up rings and T-shaped pipes, and surface with them.

Two robotics teams at Morriss Elementary took top honors recently at the First Lego League Round II Super Qualifier in Grand Saline, Texas. The Robot Rescue Team will advance to the FLL Regional Championships in Dallas on Feb. 4, with the Morriss Monkeys Team winning first place for robot design.

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Alamogordo hosts FIRST LEGO League qualifier About 20 regional teams, comprised of kids ages 9 to 14, competed in real-world science and technology challenges. Check out this story on AlamogordoNews.com: http://a-dnews.co/2jLJ8yo ALAMOGORDO -Hundreds of elementary and middle school children from around the state traveled to Alamogordo on Saturday to participate in the community’s first qualifier for the FIRST Lego League.

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Jan. 18, 2017 – PRLog — More than 1,000 students and their VEX robots from across the state will converge Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Miami-Dade County Youth Fair & Exposition’s Arnold Hall to compete in the RoboSLAM tournament. Teams of young robotic enthusiasts in programs at Miami-Dade County Public middle and high schools are tweaking and testing their machines for RoboSLAM, a qualifying tournament for the VEX IQ Robotics Competition.