More than 700 elementary and middle school students from around the South Plains will showcase robots made of LEGOs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 12 on the basketball courts at the Texas Tech Recreation Center.
The event is the culmination of the eight-week Get Excited About Robotics program. Students participating in the GEAR program build and program robots to perform specific tasks. Freshmen engineering students at Tech mentor the teams and assist in programming.
Tech has hosted the GEAR competition in Lubbock for the past six years.