The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is celebrating a national championship for their robotics team.The big win came in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Regional STEM Center’s robotics competition. After taking home the title, WPSD hosted a pep rally on Friday.The students showed Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 their winning robots. Watch that video above.“It was my first time to be involved in so much, and there were so many barriers. I was worried about us losing, but I decided to just accept and try our best,” WPSD senior E. Horn said.“Our goal has been to show other schools that deaf people can do this, and be competitive, so no longer can they say they can’t,” robotics coach L. Giancola said.“We are truly proud of our students,” WPSD Principal Greg Mendenhall said. “I know they’ve worked very hard this entire year, and they’ve taken classes throughout the fall since August and worked very hard to build the robots, facing some challenges along the way — building the robot, making it move the way they need it to — and they really overcame all of these boundaries, all these limitations.”The school hopes their accomplishments will help inspire others to try things like robotics and even drones.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.

EDGEWOOD, Pa. —

The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is celebrating a national championship for their robotics team.

The big win came in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Regional STEM Center’s robotics competition. After taking home the title, WPSD hosted a pep rally on Friday.

The students showed Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 their winning robots. Watch that video above.

“It was my first time to be involved in so much, and there were so many barriers. I was worried about us losing, but I decided to just accept and try our best,” WPSD senior E. Horn said.

“Our goal has been to show other schools that deaf people can do this, and be competitive, so no longer can they say they can’t,” robotics coach L. Giancola said.

“We are truly proud of our students,” WPSD Principal Greg Mendenhall said. “I know they’ve worked very hard this entire year, and they’ve taken classes throughout the fall since August and worked very hard to build the robots, facing some challenges along the way — building the robot, making it move the way they need it to — and they really overcame all of these boundaries, all these limitations.”

The school hopes their accomplishments will help inspire others to try things like robotics and even drones.

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