Meet the high school sport that builds robots — and the next generation of engineers

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Claire Montegut (second from right), 16, and Anika Zhou (right), 17, are members of the Space Cookies, a FIRST Robotics Competition team composed of all Girl Scouts. Here they fix their robot’s roller “claw” designed to pick up cones and cubes to score points. Mark Leong for NPR

Mark Leong for NPR

On a Thursday night inside a NASA hangar in Mountain View, Calif., a group of teenage girls cluster around two large tables strewn with wires, hex wrenches and laptops. As they work,

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