Students test newly built bots

While much of America is caught in the grips of Linsanity, students from Colfax and Palouse high schools went Bot Crazy for the first time Saturday afternoon.

For the past several months, the Palouse Area Robotics Team (PART) Sci-Borgs, as they have dubbed their team, have been working to figure out computer programs and engineering designs for their robot which will compete in an April contest in a battle with other robots built by students from around the country.

“We’re rookies. We’re rookies of the rookies,” said Dave Tharp of Palouse who helped organize the team. “But we’ve got a group of...