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Robotics Team Hopes to Defend Title

Hauppauge HIgh School's team 358 competes in FIRST Robotics Competition at Hofstra University Saturday.

Hauppauge Robotics is looking to defend its 2010 Championship.

Hauppauge High School's Team 358 will head to Hofstra University Friday night and Saturday to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Specifically, they will compete in the "Logomotion" event, which had them build a robot that can hang shaped, inflatable tubes from a grid in order to score points, then deploy a smaller robot to race to the top of a 10-foot pole. 

Preliminary rounds for ranking take place Saturday morning. The top eight teams created three-team squads for the finals.

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More than 10,000 spectators are expected.

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