Five FIRST Robotics teams from Mahoning and Trumbull counties competed last weekend at the Buckeye Regional at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland.

Teams from Warren G. Harding, Howland, Austintown, Canfield and Ursuline high schools received recognitions, but none is advancing to nationals later this month.

Frank Bosak, an adviser for Warren Harding’s team, said Canfield, which has had teams competing since 2013, was the highest-seeded area team at 20th at the Buckeye Regional. The 11-member Canfield robotics team is the Circuit Birds.

Bosak said Warren’s Team E.L.I.T.E. seeded 24th and was picked by the #8 Alliance and finished the event tied for seventh place.

The first-year rookie team from Ursuline won the “Rookie All-Star Award,” which celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort, as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.

Event officials said the Ursuline team of 10 members, which is primarily freshmen and sophomores, “is a dedicated group of underclassmen who charmed the judges with their enthusiasm for collaboration and their excitement at technical successes.”

The Ursuline team, Technocauns, is led by the school’s new science teacher, Tiffany Bendersky. Bosak said the regional event marks the official end of the FIRST Robotics competition season, as no local teams qualified for the FIRST World Championship. There is still one more event that is run by FIRST in Ohio called the FIRST Ohio Championship.

He said as teams compete in their first two regional events during the season, they earn points toward qualifying for the Ohio Championship, which accepts 32 teams.

Champion High School’s Lightning Bots is the highest ranking local team at 14th out of 62 active teams while Girard High School’s team is just behind it at 15th. The rookies at Ursuline placed 23rd and Warren placed 27th.

Those teams that accept the invitation will compete at New Albany High School in New Albany on May 10.

Andy Yantes of Austintown, one of the advisers for Austintown’s robotics team, said the team received the “Team Spirit Award” when it competed at the Miami Valley event in Cincinnati in March.

He said the 10-member team did well this year.

“The team members did a great job this season. They worked hard,” Yantes said

He said the team is waiting to see if it will compete in May at the Ohio Championship.

The Austintown team has been competing for 16 years.