[caption id="attachment_22771" align="aligncenter" width="600"]<img src="https://pocahontastimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2018/11/Robotics.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="399" class="size-full wp-image-22771" /> GBEMS Radioactive Robotics Team, front row, l to r: Mileya Bircher, Sarah Cole, Kaden Wayne, Max O’Ganian, Mason Solliday, Willie O’Ganian, Jeremy Mick and Destiney Meeks. Back row: Coach Paul Marganian and Coach Karen O’Neil.[/caption] The Green Bank Elementary-Middle School Radioactive Robotics team participated in the West Virginia First Lego League Qualifying Tournament November 3 in Lewisburg. The teams in the tournament competed in four areas to determine which was eligible to advance to the state tournament: Core Values – teamwork, Robot Design – engineering, Project Work – solving problems humans will face on long spaceflights, and Robot Performance – maneu- vering the robot through a series of challenges and obstacles. Team Radioactive received the Core Values award and came in second overall, qualifying to advance to the state tournament on December 1 in Fairmont.
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