HILLSBOROUGH: Give varsity team letters for robotics, parent says

    High school students involved with the RoboRaiders robotics team put in lots of time, work collaboratively with peers, participate in community events and practice hard to put their robot creation up against other schools in high-powered competitions.
    If that’s not being on a team, Jolene Galevich doesn’t know what is. And if it it’s a team, it should deserve awarding high school letters like the kind given to athletes, she told the school board Feb. 11.
    “They do a world of good in the community,” she said.
    Mrs. Galevich and her husband, Glenn, have a son, Evan, who is a 10th grader on the robotics team. Evan has a heart condition, and can’t compete with peers on that level, but he can dream, design, tinker and build like any other student, she said, starting at the middle-school Lego League level.
    “We look at it as a team,” she said.
    All year long, the RoboRaiders work with 4-H clubs, show off their robot at science fairs and teach robotics and science to Scouts and young girls, she said.
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This year’s RoboRaiders’ robot, which will compete in the FIRST competition next month, had to be completed, packed up and shipped by Tuesday of this week.