The Robowranglers are a robotics team comprised of students and teachers from Greenville High School and engineers from RackSolutions.com and L-3 Communications Integrated Systems in Greenville, Texas.  Each year through the FIRST Robotics Competition, 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 with engineers each evening 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.  Six 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, is not to score points, but to maintain a sense of gracious professionalism and build lasting partnerships.

Students on the team this year are Dustin Beasley, Bethany Follett, Nathan Follett, Ben Gilbert, Lane Gould, Tana Green, Ethan Isham, Trent Jones, Keith Kaden, Austin Lambert, Julie Latimer, Haley Lawson, Mark Mahrer, Logan Marcum, Zack McClellen, Kory Porter, Adam Risley, Justin Tharp, Will Thornton, Clayton Torrance, Stacey Walker, Melanie Wisdom and Karlee Wright.  The team is being coached by Greenville High School instructor Vanessa Pope and New Horizons Learning Center instructor Johnny Tharp.  Engineers volunteering from RackSolutions.com are Chris Carnevale, Ben Kolski, Brandon Martus, Ricky Torrance and John V-Neun.  Engineers from L-3 Communications Integrated Systems are Chris Follett, John Hodapp, Steve Maxwell, Adam Reppond, Kevin Rodgers, Ken Stroud and Casey Welch.