A Somerset Career and Technical Center student Tevin Huff controls his robot as it lifts a cube as part of a Starstruck game during the VEX robotics contest Saturday at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale.

A Somerset Career and Technical Center robot lifts a cube as part of a game of Starstruck during the VEX robotics contest Saturday at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale.

Students control robots competing in the game Starstruck during the VEX robotics contest Saturday at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale. The game is played by robots each team has designed and built to maneuver game pieces — stars and cubes — over a bar for points.

Hall-Dale student volunteers, left, reset one field as another Starstruck competition gets underway on another during the VEX robotics contest Saturday at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale. Starstruck is played by robots each team has designed and built to maneuver game pieces — stars and cubes — over a bar for points.

Somerset Career and Technical Center teacher Kim McEwan, top left, and students Andrew Todd and Grant Garcia work on their robots in the pits before competing in the VEX robotics contest Saturday at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale.

Somerset Career and Technical Center team member Andrew Todd works on his robot in the pits before competing Saturday in the VEX robotics contest at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale. Students worked on robots in the cafeteria between contests in the gymnasium.