Jim Elliot's little robot that could
"Ten percent of the Jim Elliot Christian High School student body will be in Atlanta April 27-29 - and it won't be to attend a Bible Belt youth revival.The Lodi school's 20-member robotics team - in only its second year of competition - won the regional FIRST Robotics Competition at the University of California, Davis, last month to earn the right to compete at the national level.
Jim Elliot defeated 40 other high schools for the honor, advancing from 36th place to first in a dramatic, come-from-behind final round.
The team's creation is Thumper, a 6-foot-tall, remote-controlled robot designed to shoot foam basketballs.
The school on Lower Sacramento Road was the smallest in the competition with just 200 students.
But Jim Elliot's team was big on brains."
-The Record
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