Kalamazoo Team Wins National Robotics Championship

Team Stryke Force, made up of high-school aged students from the Kalamazoo area defeated all comers at the national robotics championship in St. Louis, Missouri.

More than 15,000 students from around the world gathered in St. Louis, Missouri for the FIRST Robotics World Championship and when the dust settled, a Kalamazoo team won it all! Forty students from Comstock , Gull Lake, Kalamazoo Central, Loy Norrix, Mattawan, Portage Central, Portage Northern, Schoolcraft, Vicksburg and homeschools make up team Stryke Force 4-H.

Congratulate them in person at the Stryke Force Team 2767 Community Open House:

• May 22, 23, 24 from 5:30-7:30 pm
• Midlink Business Park 5200 East Cork St., Kalamazoo

This video shows what the teams had to do:

This is the championship match: Watch Stryke Force's yellow robot in the upper right window

Photos of the thrill of victory:

Bonus Video: Drone Flyover of a House as it is Being Demolished