Students enter robotics competition

This from the Herald-Leader:

Some mad scientists have been running amok in a classroom at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.

One recent afternoon, the buzz of saws and electric drills filled the room, while computer screens flickered with mysterious, cryptic symbols, and harried workers made adjustments on a contraption that vaguely resembled an electrified grocery cart with a cannon mounted on top. Fortunately, there was nothing to fear.

The "mad scientists" scrambling around the room were all Fayette County Public Schools students. And the weird cart they were working on was a wheeled robot that they are building for a high school robotics competition at Purdue University next
month.

The 18 students from Dunbar and Henry Clay high schools are members of the first high school team from Central Kentucky ever to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition, which is sponsored by Dean Kamen, inventor of the futuristic Segway scooter. They'll go against other high school teams from around the region...