Tyler Farrar, 11, Katherine Lake, 12, and Anthony Mitchell, 13, teammates from All Saints Catholic School in Bangor, celebrate as they get their robot on the top platform during a qualifying match with alliance teammates Joey Labrie, 16, Alex Medina, 15, and Luke O'Kelly, 16, of Cape Elizabeth, earning them a tie in the match Saturday.
Parker Bair, a freshman at York High School, readies his robot for a qualifying match.
Yarmouth seniors Will Lenardson, left, Emmett Herr and Jackson Rollins compete in a qualifying match.
Cape Elizabeth senior Lauren Abrahamsen readies her robot for a skills competition as part of the Maine VEX State Robotics Championship in South Portland on Saturday.
More than 200 middle and high school students participated in the Maine VEX State Robotics Championship in South Portland on Saturday.
Robots compete in a qualifying match, with one carrying the Constitution of the United States of America.
Maine School of Science and Mathematics teammates Wesley Chalmers, a sophomore, from left, Chandler Pike, a freshman, and Madison McCarthy, a sophomore, make repairs to their robot between matches Saturday at the Maine VEX Robotics State Championship in South Portland.
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