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Robotics team build community and robots for upcoming competitions

Drew Stanley, Staff reporter • November 6, 2025

The Lake Monsters Robotics Team is the LOHS and LHS shared robotics team. Together, they compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition, a STEM competition that attempts to give skills needed for STEM fields.

“We provide students with valuable real-world engineering and business skills,” said Tara Reddy, a junior and member of the Lake Monsters. The skills aim to help students grow and get ready for life after high school.

Robotics isn’t all robots; the team also has marketing, CAD (Computer-Aided Design), and software jobs that work alongside the engineering and electrical work.

The main robotics competition is held in the spring. During the offseason, the Lake Monsters compete in a competition called BunnyBots.

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“Our team allows students to create their own outreach programs and non-profits,” said Reddy. “The team works to stimulate a real job environment with many moving parts, all working towards the goal.”

The robotics team does many community outreach events, like volunteering at Doernbecher’s Children’s Hospital and putting on workshops for kids in the Lake Oswego community.

“I wanted to be an engineer and I’ve always loved STEM,” said Reddy. “I thought joining the team would be a fun way to figure out what I wanted to do in the future.”

You can learn more about upcoming Lake Monsters events by visiting their Instagram @lakemonsters2635.

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Drew Stanley, Staff Reporter

Drew Stanley is a staff reporter. This is her second year with the newspacer. She enjoys writing, baking, and keeping up with current events. She hopes to expand her writing this year by exploring new styles of news writing. She has one Labubu she found in a parking lot. The Labubu is Mrs Schloetter approved. She is an avid reader and loves audio books. She has a darling cat who is a very chonky boy, he has given her writing the stamp of approval. Drew Stanley enjoys boba from monster tea and hates cashews.