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 SCHOOLEYYou won’t see Hopkinton and John Stark fans rooting for the same team during basketball games. During the three-day FIRST robotics competition, however, fans from both schools were rooting for Oz-Ram, a team made up of both John Stark and Hopkinton students. Fans weren’t the only ones united by the team, as the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Competition can bring out the worst in those involved. In FIRST robotics competitions, the opposite is often true. Though members of the Hopkinton and John Stark high schools’ robotics team would like to come out victorious, they also realize there are other lessons to learn throughout ...

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 ...