Power Up: Duluth Hopes to Foster Competitive Robotics Teams Throughout Sweden

Sister cities Duluth, Minnesota and Växjö, Sweden have for years exchanged college and high school students, professors, artists, professionals, and athletes. Now they can add one more category to the list: Robots. Last summer, Linnea Frisk traveled all the way from her hometown of Duluth to the south-central Swedish city of Växjö with her family. There, the Minnesota high-schooler and captain of the Duluth East High Daredevils competitive robotics team reached out to a group of local students who were interested in building a robot. “The daredevils started thinking about how we really wanted to start a team in another country and we ...