Springston Nanobots win Christchurch section of FLL Robotics Competition

Congratulations to our robotics team, the Nanobots! These 8 students only began robotic programming this year, and entered the FLL (First Lego League) competition for the first time.

The video below shows Nanobots' third and final round of the robot performance challenge. They had scored 100 points in Round 1 of the challenge (the top score for that round). In Round 2 they got 70 points, and were lying in 5th place by the time their final turn came up in the last game of Round 3. How thrilling to then score 127 points!

Earlier, they had done an excellent presentation of their project inquiry on an aspect of Food Safety, and taken part in a challenge to see how well they worked together as a team.

The following two videos show the awards ceremony, with the Nanobots receiving the award for Robot Performance. And then, the overall award for the Christchurch competition (all round excellence)!

The team would like to thank the many people who have helped them over the past few weeks of competition preparation:

• Annette, Claire and Tom for getting the team started with programming and robot design
• Annette and the Russley LOL team for lending us their old table, and letting us run a practice on their new one
• Jason Kyle (Kiwi FIRST) for lending us a robot and lego set
• Chris Clarke (Manager of New World Lincoln), and the rest of the team there
• Katherine Ironside (Tegel)
• Pete Barrowclough (Lincoln Ventures)
• All the parents for their support of the students in so many ways
• Springston School class teachers for allowing students to practise during class time
• The PTA for purchasing our first lego robotics kit
• Liz (our Principal) for her encouragement and support in countless ways