03 Nov North Texas students win top honors in international robotics competition

The team earned a slew of awards partly owed to their creation of a robot that collects plastic waste from the ocean.

A community group of North Texas students recently became the first U.S. team to win the top award in the history of FIRST Global, an international robotics competition that began in 2017, according to an announcement by organizers.

The students are part of 8565 Technicbots, which represented Team USA in the competition.