Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• High school teams prepare for robotics competiton

  April 5, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 It’s been described as part science fiction convention, part rock concert. Starting today at Eastern Washington University, teams from high schools in Washington, Idaho, Montana and California will converge in … 2

• Child inventors gather to display problem-solving skills, creativity

  February 12, 2012 in City on Page B1 Carlie and Camellia Merrill spent too much time taking care of their chickens, as far as they were concerned. So when tasked with creating an invention for a contest in … 1

• Robotics inspires scientific drive

  December 6, 2009 in City on Page B1 At first glance, the competition under way inside Eastern Washington University’s computer science building Saturday looked and sounded like a fierce athletic contest. Fans cheered. Music blared. Referees in black …

• North Idaho students enter robotics contest

  November 13, 2009 in City on Page A12 Ten North Idaho high school students are scheduled to travel to Boston next month to participate in a robotics competition devised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA. “This …

• Education by design

  November 1, 2009 in City on Page A1 The fifth-graders in a Post Falls classroom dashed back and forth from open black laptops to tabletop obstacle courses. They made minute programming adjustments, then placed the robots they built …