Press release:

Two Highline schools are headed to St. Louis at the end of the month to compete in the FIRST Robotics World Championships.

Aviation High School holds the Washington State Robotics Champion title this year. The team also earned the Chairman’s Award at the state competition, which honors teams for excellence in design, creativity, innovation, and competition performance.

Highline High School will also compete in the World Championships. The team earned their ticket at the Seattle Regional competition by winning the Judge’s Award and the Safety Award.

Highline’s coach, Fred Leuke, won the Woodie Flowers Award as the region’s best mentor.

As an organization, FIRST exists to inspire young people to become science and technology leaders.

In the FIRST Robotics Competition students compete to build robots that perform various tasks. The tasks change each year and are revealed in January. Teams have just six weeks to construct the robot before competition.