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Robot Frisbee competition a 'sporting event' for nerds

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    Utah high school students build machine that can throw a flying disc

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It's meant to be sporting event they get -- -- on Grosvenor death.

I've yet to have 1% say it's murky because when you show on the -- -- all right that's not there yet pretty awesome I wanna do that a lot goes into building a little robot.

That's something that's got the streets for the pressure put -- -- the teens have an assembly line but backers not even -- -- out there and look at it.

Designers programmers and mechanics were pretty much running a business.

-- -- something -- -- just part you know contains basic motors here boxes in the frame from those pieces they have to make -- run shot that he threw for his feet.

They have six weeks to put it together and let's get behind schedule -- -- he's barely enough now -- to get the job.

Yeah it is when we're at each -- -- when it's close to the deadline.

The engineers in training take it seriously.

Because they know it's there to get into good schools -- possibly Stanford and the starting point for long careers in high paying jobs.

-- be an electrical engineers aren't any patent and you wanted to -- -- -- with the NASA robotics and helped out with.

A lot of those.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- The way to win is to keep it simple upside down but with so many hands on the project.

That simply never happens -- -- fox thirteen news -- --