Over the weekend, the Lewis Cass Robotics Team qualified to compete at the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis later this month. The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition took place at the Warren Central High School Gymnasium. After 68 qualifying matches, the top eight teams each selected two alliance partners to compete together in the Playoff rounds. At the end of the double-elimination finals, the first seed alliance of Cyber Blue from Perry Meridian High School, Kil-a-Bytes from Lawrence North High School, and Panther Tech from Western High School in Kokomo was the winning alliance.
The three winning teams and the Chairman’s Award winner will move on to compete at the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis April 22-25. The Lewis Cass Iron Kings along with teams from Huntington, Bedford,Kokomo, Hammond, Walker Career Center, Greenwood, South Vigo County and Terre Haute North will join them.