In this year’s FIRST Robotics Crossroads Regional, robots designed and constructed by students of 50 high schools across seven Midwest states competed against one another in front of a crowd of more than 2,200 people. Armed with robots designed to shoot discs into goal slots at the ends of a 54 foot playing field, both autonomously and under human control, teams from Carmel, Connersville, Indianapolis, and Lafayette, Indiana qualified to compete at the national level and at the FIRST Robotics World Championships.

Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, McNett, and Henry LLP, a proud sponsor of this year’s event, congratulates the winning teams and applauds all the students for their ingenuity and hard work. William McKenna, a partner at the firm, helped judge the three-day competition held April 4th -6th at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. This competition, and the success of all the teams from Indiana, shows the positive impact from the State’s and industries’ efforts to improve interest and education in math and science.

More details of the event can be found here.