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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Members of the NASA-sponsored Space Coast FIRST Robotics Team, known as the Pink Team, prepare to compete with their robot, Roccobot. The competition was part of the 2005 FIRST Robotics Regional Competition held at the University of Central Florida March 10-12, 2005. The Pink Team took first place in the competition as part of the three-team winning alliance and advances to the Championship in Atlanta in April. The Pink Team comprises students from Rockledge High School and Cocoa Beach Junior_Senior High School, and was joined by the Bionic Tigers from Cocoa High School, sponsored by Analex Corp., and Children of the Swamp from Inlet Grove Community High School in West Palm Beach, sponsored by UTC-Pratt and Whitney-SP. NASA and the University of Central Florida are co-hosts of the regional event. The competition stages short games played by remote-controlled robots, which are designed and built in six weeks by a team of high school students and a handful of engineers-mentors. The students control the robots on the playing field.