3 local teams in Cleveland robotics contest Saturday

January 6, 2012 at 4:07a.m.

CLEVELAND

Several Mahoning Valley high schools will compete this weekend in the FIRST Robotics Competition at Cuyahoga Community College, Unified Technologies Center.

Teams from Girard High, Youngstown Chaney Science, Technology, Engineering and Math school and Youngstown Early College Robotics will compete in the contest.

FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, will air nationwide on NASA Television from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H.