More than 100 middle and high school students throughout Ventura County who designed, built and coded their robots went head-to-head in a countywide competition.
Twenty-four teams competed in this VEX Robotics contest on Saturday at Holy Cross High School in Ventura.
"It gives us an opportunity to be creative in a real world situation, to use the skills that we've learned in our engineering classes -- and just in science and math and English and history and all those things -- to solve a real world problem a different way with a team," said Oak Park High School junior Dhruv Aggarwal who was among the students participating.
Robots scored points by accomplishing tasks including flipping over a dish and putting a ball on top of it and driving the robot on a platform to park it.
The two winning teams will compete in the state competition in the spring.