Friday, January 8th, 2016
Photo by Shelley Grieshop/The Daily Standard

Coldwater Middle School students, from left Tate Wenning, Aden Fisher, Austin Ebbing and Derek Hart discuss their strategy for district competition among FIRST Lego League teams at Bowling Green on Saturday. The team, We Will Block You, is the only school robotics team in Mercer County. The nine members qualified for the event after claiming second place at a regional event in Versailles in November.

Related online story:
COLDWATER - The classroom was unusually silent as all eyes were fixated on a small robot with a big mission.
"Don't pick it up yet," instructed sixth-grade science and math teacher Beth Thomas, as a group of Coldwater Middle School students praised "Rusty" the robot Tuesday during a practice run. [More]
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