BY MAGGIE HINES

Photography Editor

After sustaining severe damage in the second round of a regional competition, the robot built by Baldwin’s Robotics Club was able to pull out two more wins with only two-thirds of the machine intact.

The competition started well, club President James Stumpf said.

“We were able to win the first round against Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf pretty easily” Stumpf said.

This year, the club employed the strategy of flipping the other team’s robot with wedges surrounding the interior structure of Baldwin’s robot.

“This made us the lowest robot there, so we were able to pin and flip other robots in order to win” Stumpf said.

However, in the second round against Bedford High School, Baldwin’s robot suffered severe damage from Bedford’s “beater-bar robot.”

But the club still managed to win two more rounds, the first against Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in a second match against that school. They clinched their third victory of the day after their opponent Woodland Hills forfeited.

“Even though we have a lot of repairs to make, I’m pretty happy that we were still able to win two rounds with only part of our robot” Stumpf said.

The robotics club placed sixth in the competition, and now heads to championships on April 8 and 9.