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Programming Focus · 2026–27

STEAM Teams

Home base for competitive, team-based engineering — where young makers design, build, troubleshoot, and compete alongside adult mentors.

Komatsu Fluid Power Challenge

Sponsored by Komatsu, this statewide challenge has our team designing and building fluid-power-driven machines and competing head-to-head with teams from across the region.

BEST Robotics — GCC

Hosted at Grove City College, BEST Robotics pairs our young makers with mentors to design, build, and program a competition robot from the ground up each season.

Battlebots / Robobots — Meadville

Combat robotics builds that take engineering, fabrication, and troubleshooting from the workbench to the arena, competing alongside teams from Meadville and the wider region.