JAY — Two Jay High School robotics teams have won the right to represent Maine in the VEX Robotics World Championship at Disney World from April 14 to 16, Principal Gilbert Eaton told the School Committee Thursday.

Each team member will receive a $400 donation from Fairchild Semiconductor to help them go to the world championships, Gilbert said.

The teams will be raising more money to enable them to compete.

“Both teams deserve praise and compliments for their hard work and sportsmanship,” Gilbert said. “Either team could have won.”

There is one more chance for other Jay teams to qualify for the championship on Feb. 5 in Bangor.

Team members from Jay that won the Southern Maine Vex Robotic Tournament on the first place team are James Douglass, Nathan Purrington, Ed Krupp and Travis Sturtevant.

The second place team winners are Dean Lorrain, Dustin Hargreave and Frank Williams.

The teams are coached by high school teacher Dan Lemieux.

In another matter on Thursday, Gilbert said the online grade system where parents and students can review grades is back up and running.

The only question is if the system can handle the demand, Eaton said.

The program went down in the summer during a technology switch and has been offline since then. Teachers still continued to record grades in a grade-book as they always do, he said.

If you can’t look at kids’ grades every day, it has a huge influence, Eaton said.

School Committee member Darcie Comstock said previously that seeing the grades can help improve students’ performance before it goes downhill.

In other news about students, Elementary School Principal Chris Hollingsworth said that third- graders organized a food drive before Christmas. The whole school got involved and the students donated 310.5 pounds to the Tri-Ministerial Food Cupboard in Livermore Falls.

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