VOA慢速英语 在FIRST机器人大赛中,学生和机器人进行竞赛

　　在FIRST机器人大赛中，学生和机器人进行竞赛

　　At the FIRST Championship, Kids and Robots Compete

　　Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.

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　　I'm Doug Johnson. This week

　　We play new music from jazz artist Diana Krall

　　And answer a question about American revolutionary leader Patrick Henry.

　　But first, we report on a "sporty" international competition in robot building.

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　　FIRST Championship

　　HOST:

　　Last weekend, twenty thousand people gathered in the state of Georgia to watch students from twenty-eight countries compete with robots they built. More than ten thousand students and more than five hundred robots took part in the competition. Faith Lapidus tells us about it.

　　FAITH LAPIDUS:

　　The students and their robots competed at the FIRST Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. FIRST is the short way of saying the organization's complete name: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.

　　Almost one thousand seven hundred high school teams entered a level of competition called LUNACY. The competitors came from eleven countries, including the United States.

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