Lisa Roberson The Chronicle-Telegram ELYRIA -- This is how one educator described the fierce competition taking place at Elyria High School on Saturday: An erector set meets shuffleboard. In a room usually reserved for student-athletes, student engineers showed there is more than one way to compete for first place. Nineteen teams from seven middle schools in Northeast Ohio made up the field of competitors for Elyria's first Vex Middle School Qualifier. At the Elyria Pioneer Classic, students brought their robots, tools and drive to win while parents cheered from the stands as each custom-built robot dropped cones into scoring zones.