Robotics team members from Newport High and International School in Bellevue will head to St. Louis, MO, on April 27, where they will compete in the FIRST (For Inspiration of Science and Technology) Robotics Championship. The competition, which will be held at Edward Jones Dome, will feature 322 teams from across the country.

The Bellevue students won their trip to the championship after taking first place at the Seattle Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. The competition featured teams from 64 schools that competed to see whose robot could toss the most Frisbees through a goal at the end of the field.

As part of the regional competition, students had six weeks to build a remote-controlled robot using a standard kit of parts and a common set of rules.

The Newport Robotics Group had the highest scoring robot out of all teams in the competition. The team also went undefeated in the competition and was the No. 1 seed going into the finals, which enabled them to choose its alliance partners. The Newport team chose International School’s Titan Robotics, which finished as the 26th seed with a 5-4 record, as well as Aviation High School from Highline School District.

Bellevue’s Interlake was the No. 4 seed after the qualifying rounds, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals; Sammamish High School was part of the alliance that beat Interlake and finished as the No. 52 seed, and Bellevue High finished as the No. 40 seed.

The competition in St. Louis if free and open to the public.