Robotics team takes fifth at meet

Nespelem School District's robotics team competed in their first regional "First Lego League Robotics Competition" the first weekend in December.

With a little over a month to prepare, the small team of five middle-school students competed against 23 teams in Wenatchee, Principal Marcy Horne reports.

This year's competition theme was "Out to Orbit," and the team was judged on robot design for that...