Twin brothers build 'Blast Robotics' team for kids in Philly region

6abc Philadelphia
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Nov 11, 2026
The Ponugoti twins put their brains together to help kids to blast off into the world of robotics in Berwyn, PA.
This is their story: https://6abc.com/20013061
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I'd say founding a team with my brother
is one of the best experiences of my life.
It's just like basically having a clone
of yourself that you can consult like
every single day about whatever problems you have.
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Hi my name is Bharat and this is my brother Bhavan
and we are both co-founders of Blast Robotics.
We're twins and we both go to Conestoga High School
and my brother unfortunately did not make it
in his freshman year to the robotics team.
To make sure that this experience is available for everyone,
we decided to start this first
robotics competition team.
It's called Blast Robotics and our team number is 10989.
30 seconds remaining of game play.
From January to April we have the majority of our competitions.
The robot has to run for like three
whole minutes competing to pick up the most amount of yellow balls
and shoot them into the hub.
Overall, this team is hosting 40 students,
and our competition experience has been pretty good.
We've won three awards, and teaching all these people,
as well as working with my peers and other leaders,
is just a wonderful experience.
Whenever you do this, it can't rotate downwards.
I joined right as they wanted to create a team,
so I was kind of like the third member, or the third founder, in a way.
I feel like I think this team is more of a family than it
is like a lot of people just working together.
It's more like, you know, we know each other pretty well.
I'm going to show you the CAD of a different robot,
and we need to make a part similar to theirs.
We are open to all students between grades 7 through 12,
and we want to do more summer camps
and create as many opportunities as possible.
For more information,
I would definitely check out our organization website, team10989.org.
