EMC2, a data technology firm in the Triangle, will donate two complete VEX robot kits to McDougle Middle School.
The donation, valued at $2,500, will allow the school’s Technology Student Association to enter two teams of students in the TSA VEX Robotics Competition. Four students will join TSA sponsor Redmond Griff at the EMC headquarters in Durham for a day of training with company engineers.
McDougle was one of three Triangle schools to receive the donation. McDougle’s TSA chapter has won a number of state and national honors in recent years. This will be the chapter’s first entry in the robotics challenge.