 Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with signup or renewal of a two-year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Dozens of people were in Dorton Elementary School's gym on Saturday, and there wasn't a basketball to be found. What you could find, though, were robotics teams from several area elementary, middle, and high schools. Dorton, for the very first time, hosted the regional robotics competition. Teams from several Pike County schools and two teams from Betsy Lane High School competed on Saturday. In years past, the teams had to travel to Moorhead for the regional competition, but thanks to some reorganization and a lot of lobbying by local robotics teams' coaches, the competition was brought to Pike County. We have actually attended the regional tournament in Moorhead State, down at Moorhead State University in the past, and this is our first year of actually getting to host this at a Pike County school. So it was a really big deal, too, and a huge honor to get to host it here at Dorton Elementary School this year. When it was in Moorhead, our students, a lot of the kids didn't get to go because of weather-related issues or whatever, so we're more than glad because we have got full participation today from Pike County schools with it being here in Pike County. The robots used by each team were constructed by the teams from Lego Kids. The bots completed tasks on a course and were scored by how they completed those tasks. Now, how did the bots run the course? It wasn't by remote control. It was through pre-programmed coordinates entered by the bots' respective teams. Well, as you can see, there's a little port right there that we plug into the back of our computer, and we type in basically coordinates, angles, lengths of how far we want it to move, what angle we want it to move at, and the small motherboard inside that keeps all that stored, and it reads it and basically does it. So everything over there on the table, you guys have already got mapped out, right? Yes, it's pre-programmed completely. The winners at Saturday's regional competition will next head to Reparina for the state competition. Next stop is Reparina at April 12th. Reporting in Dorton for EKB News, I'm Chris Anderson.