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A year ago, Hammond Morton junior Josue Pedraza couldn’t get his Robotics friends to leave him alone about joining the team.

The 16-year-old was into music and couldn’t imagine getting into nuts and bolts and math and physics. And he certainly didn’t know the lingo it took to be proficient in the realm, nevermind good, he said.

Today, not only is Josue Team Hammond’s biggest cheerleader, he can teach any neophyte interested in robotics the ropes via a computer app he created for the U.S. Congressional Code Challenge this fall. His creation earned him first place in Indiana’s First Congressional District, which he learned during a Tech Fair event at Purdue Northwest’s Challenger Learning Center Monday night.

Called RoboticsMuse, Josue’s app a

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