Future Engineers

Team Spork, from left, Vincent Loparco, Alex Wunch and Cody Kulski fine tune their robot, the Sporkinator, between rounds of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition at UNLV March 31. More than 1,200 high school students competed in the third annual competition, and each team was given the task of building a robot that could play a tic-tac-toe-type game, Rack-n-Roll. Cimarron-Memorial High School, the first place winners for the last two years, were runners-up this year and took home the Motorola Quality Award. Legacy High School, in its first-ever competition, made it to the quarterfinals. Canyon Springs, also a first-year team, was presented with the Highest Rookie Seed Award. The top award went to Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles.Photos by Jim Miller/View Advertisement