The Robowranglers are a robotics team comprised of students and teachers from Greenville High School and engineers from L-3 Communications Integrated Systems in Greenville, Texas.  Each year through the FIRST Robotics Competition, L-3 volunteer engineers, high school students, and members from the community partner together to build a robot in a time period of six weeks.  Through this building process, engineers mentor students in brainstorming, prototyping, design, and creation of the robot and its functions.  Students work at L-3 each night to create and build the various parts needed for the robot.  This enables the students to take classroom concepts from the math and science fields and apply them to a real world situation.

Reality sets in as competition begins.  The FIRST Robotics Competitions are centered on a new engineering challenge or "game" each year designed to showcase the science and math talents of team members.  Four teams, paired in two alliances, will compete in each match.  Each alliance works together to try and beat the other alliance by scoring the most points in a two-minute match.  After all of the teams at the regional competition have completed a series of qualification matches, the teams will be ranked.  The top eight teams will then choose allies from among the remaining teams and form eight alliances.  These eight alliances will then compete in a best two-out-of-three series of elimination matches until an event-winning alliance emerges.  The main goal of the competition, however, is not to score points, but to maintain a sense of gracious professionalism and build lasting partnerships.

To be able to travel to the FIRST events, the students of the team have to keep busy raising funds to cover the expenses.  As part of the Pennies for the Bot program, the Robowranglers go door to door and business to business every year in search of pennies.  With the support of the community and the students of Greenville High School, the fundraiser is an annual success, raising over $1,000 each year.

Students on the team this year are seniors Peter Chung, Kayleigh Cooper, Amanda Isham, Jason Maxwell, Kevin Morris, Ben Newell, Michael Risley, Phillip Stromberg, and Megan Wineinger; juniors Nathan Follett, Lane Gould, Kory Porter, Justin Tharp, Clayton Torrance, Stacey Walker, and Melanie Wisdom, sophomores Austin Lambert and Logan Marcum, freshman Ethan Isham, and eighth grader Mark Mahrer.  The team is being coached by Greenville High School instructors Vanessa Pope and Terri Galloway, and New Horizons Learning Center instructor Johnny Tharp.  Engineers volunteering from L-3 Communications Integrated Systems are Adam Davies, Chris Follett, John Hodapp, Steve Maxwell, Brenda Morris, Dan Newell, Adam Reppond, Kevin Rodgers, Ken Stroud, Kevin Tipps, Ray Upp, Mike Waggoner, Casey Welch, and Monty Wineinger.  Also mentoring from the community is Brad Marcum.