Hopkinton High School and John Stark Regional High School in Weare joined to form Team OzRam at the 2007 Granite State Regional FIRST robotics competition at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester from March 1 to 3, and won two awards.

Team OzRam won the Imagery Award for attractiveness in engineering and visually aesthetic engineering and the Web site Award, which recognizes excellence in student-designed, built and managed FIRST team Web sites.

The team ranked 32, with two wins, and didn’t make the finals.

“I don’t think we went out and talked to the other teams enough, and that’s why we didn’t do so great,” said Corissa Gecks, a freshman at John Stark.

But the team did put in plenty of work on their robot, said Hopkinton’s Cass Mellen. They also put together uniforms with a Land of Oz theme.

“When we go to (regionals in) Boston, we’ll definitely have the upper hand, because other teams will still be getting ready and we’ve already seen what our robot can do,” said Henniker’s Meagan Cote.

Student members of Team OzRam include, from Hopkinton High School, Mike Klinker, Alex Kervyn, Noah Booth, Mike Flynn, Adam Marston, Bryan Libby, Trevor Grant, Cass Mellen, Doug Fuller Jr., Travis Crudgington, Connor Grant, Nathan Palson, Jenny Boutwell, Andrew Meyer, Dillon Hawley, Dan Merrow, Zac Sink, Evan Morse, Dave Roberts, Zach Litchfield, Kaitlyn Kurtz, Sam McIntire, Dan Hurley Jr., Alexandra Winzeler and Dan Edmunds; from John Stark Regional High School, Thomas Womersley, Elliot Doughty, Corissa Gecks, Megan Cote, Tim McGuire, Patrick Tucker, Tyler Becker, Mike Dubreuil, Josh Dingmen and Sean Dubreuil; and from the Derryfield School, Chris DiPastina, Paul DiPastina and Hilary Hamer.

Other local teams participating included St. Paul’s School, Bishop Brady High School and Concord High School.

Sponsored by BAE Systems, the Granite State Regional brings more than 1,500 students and mentors together in a competition that emphasizes teamwork, innovation and strategy. In early January, teams received a challenge to design, develop and build a robot in six weeks using a common parts list. The robots compete in randomly selected alliances, scoring points by performing a variety of tasks.

This year’s challenge – “Rack ‘n’ Roll” – has two, three-team alliances competing against each other. Teams score points by maneuvering inner tubes around a 10-foot-tall rack during 2-minute, 15-second rounds. For the first 15 seconds of the round, robots operate autonomously. Robot control is returned to the driver for the remainder of the round.