HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — Over 800 students and mentors from more than 20 states and Canada came out to the Hershey Lodge Sunday for the Vex V-5 Robotics Competition.
It’s a two-day event that featured 120 teams.
Participants in the “Push Back” game used robots they designed, built, and programmed. Mentors say it’s about so much more than that.
“We say that robots is a mechanism for everything else they get out of this, so their robots don’t work the way they first planned and they have to overcome that and fix it, they’re working with partners they’ve never met and they develop life skills and it prepares them for whatever is next in their life,” Jason Heller, founder and executive director of Brandywine Robots, said.
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The competition continues Monday.
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