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Norm Sutaria, the director of community engagement for the regional competition, said John Dewey High School, which made it to the championships last year, is a powerhouse. Queens Technical High is “a strong, dominant force,” he added, and Stuyvesant High has a competitive team.

Frederick Douglass Academy is a leader in the region, Mr. Sutaria continued. And the all-girls team from the Bronx High School of Science, called the Iron Maidens, is “very strong.”

Attendees can visit the pit, where they can talk to students and inspect the robots up close. There’s also a live feed for watching the competition.

The event, Mr. Sutaria said, is about “kids building robots but also robots building kids.” Students “learn the hard technical skills, but then that’s also wrapped around the social, emotional learning piece, and teamwork and collaboration, and giving and taking feedback.”

“It’s essentially being competitive, yet kind,” he added. “This is much more of robots cooperating together, not heavy-duty, sort of kill-the-other-robot type of competition.”

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