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For this week\u2019s blog post, we invited the DuBois Area Robotics team to share their journey and how they used MATLAB and Simulink for the 2025 <\/span>BEST Robotics<\/span><\/a> Championship. MathWorks is immensely proud of their achievements, and we hope you also find their insights useful! With that, I\u2019ll hand it over to them.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Who We Are: DuBois Area Robotics<\/h2>\n
We are DuBois Area Robotics, a public high school robotics club based in western-central Pennsylvania. We have been competing in BEST Robotics since 2011 and VEX Robotics since 2019.<\/div>\n
For BEST Robotics, we often include a few students from neighboring districts. One of the aspects of BEST that keeps us returning is its company-style structure, which requires us to integrate marketing, engineering, and design into a unified team effort. We also enjoy the challenge of building a competitive robot using only common materials that can be found in a typical hardware store.<\/div>\n
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