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Take Them to The Cleaners!

High school students at Lee-Scott Academy are preparing for a national robotics competition hosted by Auburn University. The team has spent hours designing a robot that can do laundry.

Genius! It's the only world to describe what these Lee-Scott-students have designed. A robot that can hang laundry on a clothesline, take laundry off a clothes line, then drop it into a basket. The robot can do all three tasks, in under three minutes.

"It's been great we've been able to bring some of our ideas from the classroom in our physics and calculus classes and bring them into a robot. There's been a lot of team work and it's a group effort really learned a lot from it," said design student Clay Guerin.

AP Calculus and Honors Physics teacher Scott Moody says this group has given everything they have to the project. Saturday, these student will compete against 50 other teams from all over the nation. That's where Lee-Scott's marketing team comes in.

"We have to create a booth which shows off our robot and gives information on our students, we have to give an oral presentation which tells about our robot," said Marketing President Shelley Snipes.

Throughout this project, the students have been mentored by Auburn University engineering students and the Donaldson Corporation.

Auburn hosts the South's Best Robotics Championship Competition on Saturday, in the Coliseum. 3,000 students from across the nation will be there to compete.