Ronan High, Montana robotics team wins world championships! Your 2011 FTC World Robotics Champions are Troy McMillan, Thane Tobol, Alex Killian, J.T. Probst, Hunter Shima, Tyler Sassaman and Collin Hardy.

This is the funny part of the story of Ronan High School’s http://www.ronank12.edu/ trip to the World Robotics Championships in St. Louis last week.

"Having never been before, we didn’t know what to expect," says Jesse Gray, the team’s coach, as he and seven Ronan students arrived at the Edward Jones Dome, home of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams, for the competition.

In a convention center next door, hundreds of teams from around the world set up in their "pit areas," which looked like display booths for a trade show.

"Some of them put roofs on their booths, they had nice chairs and video displays and big tool box racks," Gray says. "There were teams with sponsors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA."

And the Ronan booth?

"We took some screws out and put up a six-foot table banner," Gray says, "and we found a couple of wooden crates to sit on."

And now, the best part of the story.

Ronan won the world championship.

By VINCE DEVLIN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_b68a2de0-75f9-11e0-9b25-001cc4c03286.html