LUMBERTON — Robots are coming to Robeson County.
Robeson Early College High School’s ROBCOBOT, Robeson County’s own FIRST Robotics Competition team, will be a co-host of THOR at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. The competition starts Aug. 5.
THOR is North Carolina’s very first off-season robotics competition for FIRST Robotics Competition teams. The competition is considered the premier engineering challenge for high school students. Teams of students, working closely with teachers and volunteer mentors, conceptualize, design, build, program, modify and test a robot to participate in a competition that changes each year.
The ROBCOBOT team is seeking mentors for the upcoming season. Mentors work extensively with team members during the build season, designing, building, and fabricating a functional robot for competition.
For information about mentoring, contact Keenan Locklear, ROBCOBOT coach, by calling 910-737-5232, 910-827-9549 or 910-521-4399.