BY MARK NATALE On April 14, the Trinity Robotics team, Checkmate 40, packed its trailer and started the long drive down to Atlanta to compete in the 2009 FIRST World Championship in the Georgia Dome along with 348 other teams from across the world. Several members of the team are from Bedford. This is the fifth year in a row Checkmate ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKILunacy. An apt description of the idea a bunch of high school kids could design and build a robot capable of playing a game under conditions similar to the moon’s surface in just six weeks. But that is exactly what teams involved in this year’s FIRST robotics competition are doing for this year’s game, called ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYMusic blaring, lights flashing and the seats filled with spectators, Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena wasn’t playing host to a musical act or sporting event, but more than 1,000 high school ers participating in the FIRST Overdrive Robotics Competition. Saturday, March 1, marked the end of the three-day competition ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONEBedford High School is about to make history, again, as a group of students are building their first high-tech robot. Since early January, the Bedford High School FIRST robotics team has been working everyday getting their machine ready for competition. FIRST is a worldwide robotics contest founded in 1989 by Segway inventor ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Even the World Wrestling Federation couldn’t have put on a louder, more intense competition with match ups between heavy weights from all over New England. Twenty-six teams from different towns in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut flocked to Manchester West High School on Saturday, Oct. 27, ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEYMost students would shrug off the idea of going to school on weekend mornings, but the members of the Manchester West High School FIRST robotics team look foward to drilling holes in pipes, shortening metal brackets and cutting wood. Building a robot has to start somewhere, and about 10 students at Manchester High School West ...