Students from Cuyahoga Community College's Youth Technology Academy won the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship, an engineering skills showcase in St. Louis that drew 20,000 participants from around the world.
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During the summer, you'll likely find most kids in swimming pools, collecting Pokemon or at camp.
Most kids.
But for 20 Cleveland high school students, their summer has been devoted to building an all-terrain, bomb-seeking robot.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Students from Cuyahoga Community College's Youth Technology Academy have designed and built a specialized robot for use by the Cleveland police department's bomb squad.
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