We are thrilled to announce that the
'Springston Strikers' have been awarded a second place Champions Award at the National First Lego League Finals in Auckland this weekend. This
means they were in second place overall across all aspects of the
competition. A fantastic result, with 19 teams entered from around New
Zealand. Congratulations to Oliver, Freddie, Haidee, Georgia, Dylan and Jack!
First Lego League is a robotics program for students aged 9 to 14, which is designed to get children excited about science and technology - and teach them valuable employment and life skills. The competition involves programming an autonomous robot (using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robot set) to score points on a themed playing surface (this year based on 'Senior Solutions' - about the issues around aging), creating an innovative solution to a problem as part of their project, all while being guided by the FLL Core Values. More than 20,000+ teams from over 70 countries take part each year.
Winning teams from each country are invited to attend the World Festival in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 2013. We are very proud of our second placing.
It was a huge day of robotic challenges, questioning about robot
design and programming, presentations of their inquiry, interviews, and
teamwork presentations and challenges. It is amazing what our students can
achieve!
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| Getting started in our Pit area. |
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| Discussing the score in our first practice round. |
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| Everyone is part of the interview about robot design and programming. |
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| Waiting to take part in Round 2 of the robot game. |
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| Our amazing Auckland family supporters. |
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| Time for a team photo after the rounds are complete. |
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| Robot Game final scoring - 3rd place. |
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| Proudly holding the Champions Award Trophy for 2nd place overall. |
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| Champions Award Trophy for Second Place. |
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| The Award. |
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| The Coach's Team Hat! |
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| The 2013 Challenge theme is announced (photo by A. Ward). |
First Lego League is a robotics program for students aged 9 to 14, which is designed to get children excited about science and technology - and teach them valuable employment and life skills. The competition involves programming an autonomous robot (using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robot set) to score points on a themed playing surface (this year based on 'Senior Solutions' - about the issues around aging), creating an innovative solution to a problem as part of their project, all while being guided by the FLL Core Values. More than 20,000+ teams from over 70 countries take part each year.
Winning teams from each country are invited to attend the World Festival in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 2013. We are very proud of our second placing.
The video below shows Round 1 of the Robot Game where our team attained its best score of 368 points, putting it in third place for this section of the FLL challenge. The Robot Game is only one part of this amazing competition.
Thanks to the MANY people who supported the team in so many ways throughout the past 10 weeks of the competition and to Jason Kyle of Kiwi First for organising this event in New Zealand.
Well done Strikers! What an achievement!!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant teamwork - well done. And major congrats to Carol too.
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