“Rise of the Machines” it wasn’t, but the Robotics and Engineering rally held at Southern Maine Community College’s Brunswick Landing campus Tuesday did look like a whole lot of fun.

Students from Portland and Kennebunk high schools and Lewiston Regional Technical Center spent four hours battling for geek supremacy — or, rather, their robots did. After the Portland and Kennebunk teams were eliminated during the preliminary round, it was an all-Lewiston final between four LRTC teams.

Lewiston’s Team No. 2 ultimately was crowned champion of the inaugural rally after beating their Team No. 4 classmates in the final round by a score of 31-27.

Team 5’s Tyler Cook, 17, built most of his team’s robot, “Puncake,” while Nicolas Dunn, 16, did the programming.

Tuesday’s was the first annual rally at the Maine Advanced Technology and Engineering Center on Sewall Street.

Engineering professors Alex Freiss and Michael Davis organized the event, which required the robots — some with pincer appendages, others with scoops or hyrid scoop-buckets — to flip Nerf footballs and orange-sized spheres over a metal fence, push them through holes cut into the fence or drop them through vertical chutes.

jtleonard@timesrecord.com