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The Hackbots, based out of Farmington High School, were recognized for their Safety Captain’s Performance at the FIRST World Championship at the end of April in St. Louis.

The Hackbots were one of 600 teams from across the nation to advance to the World Championship after winning awards in entrepreneurship and industrial safety at the state competition in Traverse City in early April.

Preston Buszka, the team’s Safety Captain, was recognized for his performance at the World Championship.

The Hackbots team consists of more than 70 students from Farmington Public Schools. The students compete on several sub teams including the Mechanical, Programming, Electrical, Business, and Graphics teams.

“Each part of the team worked hard competing with the robot, communicating our entrepreneurship ideas and illustrating how we perform safely as a team,” said Hackbots advisor Mark Skodack.

FIRST Robotics Competition is designed to spark an interest in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields with high school students. Teams are given six weeks to design a robot to compete in games designed for the robotics competitions.