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Sarasota News Leader March 15, 2013 Page 54 SARASOTA ROBOTICS TEAM WINS TOP AWARD AT REGIONAL CONTEST Competing with 62 other teams from around the state at the Orlando Regional FIRST Robotics Competition, Sarasota's Jungle Robotics Team won the Chairman's Award, the highest regional honor the organization bestows, the Sarasota County Schools have announced. stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." In FIRST Robotics contests, teams are challenged to design and build a robot in just six weeks. The robot must be capable of executing specific tasks in a challenging competition The award was presented to the team on with 3,000 other teams from around the world, March 9 at the University of Central Florida the release notes. Arena. The honor recognized the students for their efforts to promote science, technol- Jungle Robotics, also known as Team 3627, ogy, engineering and math (STEM) initiatives consists of 30 members from four Sarasota throughout the Sarasota community, a news County public schools, Pine View School, Rivrelease adds. erview High, Suncoast Polytechnical High and Earning the regional Chairman's Award means Venice High; and one private school, The Outthe team is invited to the National FIRST Ro- of-Door Academy, the release adds. botics Competition, set for April 24-27 in St. The regional judges issued the following stateLouis, the release points out. ment about Jungle Robotics winning the reFIRST, an international high school robotics gional Chairman's Award: "You won't find this competition with regional and national levels, team just sitting under the trees. Sustained Members of the Jungle Robotics Team gather during a session before heading to Orlando. Photo by Scott Proffitt