In 2021, the Robotics Center staff changed the event’s format to incorporate two separate competitions in one weekend and to allow out-of-state teams to participate.

The Rockefeller Robotics has come a long way from its start during the 2021-2022 school year, when a small but determined group of students convinced Schafer to lead a robotics team.

The Price/Choudhary family has been connected to the FIRST Robotics Competition since its start in the state of Texas.

That happened in 2021 when the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission officially recognized robotics as a legitimate school activity.

In 2021, the company followed that donation with a donation of $85,000 to start a high school robotics program. “From there, it just kept growing," Hatch said.

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