Six teams representing the Student Technology Club at RHU (STC-RHU) participated in the NERD17 robotics competition that was held at Balamand University on March 4, 2017. The teams competed in 3 different categories - First Lego League, SUMO and line tracking. STC-RHU teams won the second, third and fourth place in the SUMO category and qualified to represent Lebanon in the Open Arab Robotics competition to be held in Qatar. The Automatron team from Houssam Eddine Hariri High School coached by the RHU mechatronics engineering student Sari Eid and Biomedical engineering student Reem Malaeb won the competition’s Strategy and Innovation Award.