The Army Ants, a Columbia robotics team, won the Design Award in the FIRST Global Innovation Challenge. Made up of 35 high school students, the Ants have won awards on the local, regional, national and now global level.
The 12 girls and 23 boys on the team include home-schooled students and students attending Tolton Regional Catholic, Rock Bridge, Hickman and Battle high schools.
Every year, FIRST — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology — hosts a global robotics competition in which students design, build and program industrial-size robots.
