15 Aug Conroe ISD robotics team helps beleaguered Afghan squad

Members of the Conroe Independent School District “Texas Torque” team showed their team spirit and sense of camaraderie this week, stepping in to save the day for another robotics team competing on the world stage.

The “Texas Torque” robotics team was already planning to send four students the FIRST Global Challenge robot Olympics event in Mexico City later this week. When team members got word Sunday, Aug. 12, that a female team from Afghanistan had lost their robot in transit to the event, the CISD students offered to help in a big way — build a new robot in only two days.

The female robotics team from Afghanistan is already in Mexico City, and therefore were unable to build a new robot before the competition between teams from more than 190 countries starts Thursday, Aug. 16.

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