With nuclear reactors overheating, robots were required to hit an emergency cooling switch, remove fuel rods from the reactors and place them in the Multi-Tube Containtment Vessels. All this had to be done while the robots rode on a rail five feet off the ground.

Robotics Competition Winners 1st Woodlands Homeschoolers 2nd Cy-Falls High School 3rd Caney Creek High School	BEST Award Winners 1st The Woodlands Homeschoolers 2nd Conroe High School 3rd St. Agnes Academy
Founders Award for Creative Design Caney Creek High School	Most Robust Machine Caney Creek High School
Most Elegant Machine Branch Crossing Junior High School	Most Photogenic Machine Woodlands Homeschoolers
Engineering Award St. Agnes Academy

Other teams that competed and had lots of fun in 2001:

• Academy of Science and Technology
• Awty International School
• Cy-Springs High School
• Humble High School
• John Cooper School
• Kingwood High School
• Oak Ridge High School
• Spring High School
• Tomball High School
• The Woodlands High School