Team from DODDS, AFNORTH to work together in competition

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More than a dozen students from AFNORTH High School in Brunssum, Netherlands, will take part this spring in an annual high school robotics competition in Las Vegas. The 2008 team will feature several veterans, including, from left, Zach Zembower, Brock Blankenship and Seth Meitzner, pictured with last year’s entry.


Team from DODDS, AFNORTH to work together in competition
By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, January 8, 2008

BRUNSSUM, Netherlands

This past weekend, a team of high-school students from Wiesbaden, Germany, met up with their counterparts at AFNORTH, the DODDS-affiliated international school in southeastern Netherlands.

Normally, when two high schools meet on a Saturday, it involves a contest. And this time was no different, in a sense.

“They were down here for the kickoff,” said Greg Blankenship, the technical studies teacher at AFNORTH.

Only this time, both schools were on the receiving end.

AFNORTH welcomed members of the Wiesbaden High School Technology Club to join its students for the live broadcast of this year’s challenge in the FIRST Robotics Competition. In essence, the challenge requires participating high schools to design and build a robot — with the aid of a common kit of parts — that can outperform all the others while engaging in a predetermined set of tasks.


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