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Isabel Guerra

Five high school students from public school “Mercedes Cabello” are arriving in Atlanta today, to represent Peru in the Robotics World Championship.

Angie Silva Telenta (12), Lucero Huallanca Quispe (15), Karen Cabezas Liciera (11), Adriana Mayo Ramos (16) and Yosselyn Flores Sánchez (16), winners of the Robotics National Contest in 2008, are travelling along with their teacher Wilman Joaquín and a representative of their school.

The team will be presenting “Robotina”, created to perform 18 field tasks in only 2.5 minutes.

The contest is sponsored by the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology organization (FIRST) and the Lego group, and this is the first time that a Peruvian public school is representing Peru.

The team has been receiving support by Deltron group and the Instituto Von Braun, but the girls and their families have had to struggle to afford their their plane tickets, visa documents and travel expenses, according the the school's headmaster Azucena Garay.

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