{"id":185107,"date":"2026-03-01T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185107\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:55:06","slug":"west-texas-robotics-championship-draws-48-teams-to-texas-tech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/185107\/","title":{"rendered":"West Texas Robotics Championship draws 48 teams to Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Forty-eight teams from Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, El Paso and the New Mexico area competed Saturday in the West Texas Robotics Championship, hosted by Texas Tech Whitacre College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Middle school and high school students were asked to design, build, program and present a robot to compete in a game that changes every year, presenting new challenges for participants to solve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fisher White, a student competing in the regional championship, said this year\u2019s robot task involved shooting balls into a goal, either autonomously or by human control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe goal is to shoot these balls into a goal quickly and accurately, compelled by itself or humanly driven,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">White said he wants others to see robotics as an accessible activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cJust give it a chance, I have so many friends who think robotics is nerdy or something like that&#8230;you can do anything, you can do social media for it, you can do anything and find your place in robotics,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Teams competed for a chance to represent their schools at the UIL, state and world championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Forty-eight teams from Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, El Paso and the New Mexico area competed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-185107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}