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LEGO League Competition

As you might know Brynn joined a LEGO League through school this year. She would meet at the school after classes were done for the day to work with her teammates on coding, researching and building robots. What I have learned over the past several months is that this league has fairly little to do with LEGOs and more to do with robotics. She has seemed to enjoy it.

Brynn's teacher and another fifth grade teacher who also specifically teaches science lead the groups. They send parents messages and photos through an app for your phone. They sent the below one this past week as they had been working extra hard preparing for their upcoming competition.



This past Friday several area schools came together to compete against one another with their research projects and robots they had built and programmed. I think there were about 16 groups there.

It was held at NDSU and the morning portion consisted of judging their research project and code of ethics board. Brynn's school had two league groups and Brynn's was called the Cardinals. 

The Cardinals' research project was on radiation. Here they are doing their presentation Friday morning. Brynn is on the right side in between the boy and girl.


Dana and I took the afternoon off to watch the bot competitions where the robots they built would match up against one another on 'missions.'

Here's Brynn with their posters.




They completed three separate missions against another group.




Each group had two 'drivers' that seemed to be in charge of placing the bot on the table and such. (I realize I actually still know very little about how all of this works!) I think driver number two here on the Cardinals team was feelin' the stress at this point in time!




Ha - that kid on the right was excited after their last mission which had earned them the most points of the three they competed in.



I put together a video at the end here of their last mission since that was the one I was able to get up the closest to and then the awards ceremony.

The judging encompassed more than just the number of points each team accumulated during the missions. The total points also included the judging from the morning as well.

The Cardinals won the research award. (Some of the other awards given were the inspiration award, teamwork and innovation).  I can't remember which award the other group from Brynn's school received.

I guess there is a state competition in Grand Forks next month where six teams advance from Friday's competition. Brynn's team, the Cardinals, was one of the six teams! They were so excited - well, we all were. League was supposed to be done after the competition, so after they found out they would be advancing to state, they were already talking about re-grouping to continue meeting until state.


Congratulations to the Cardinals! It was so fun to watch and all the more exciting that Brynn's team will be moving on to the state competition.


Comments

theweckerlys said…
So cool! Awesome job, Cardinals! I can't wait to hear how the state competition goes. (I couldn't get any sound on the video but was fun to see them in action!)
January 20, 2019 at 11:58 PM
shelly said…
Exciting! Way to go Brynn and all the Cardinals. Good luck at state.
January 21, 2019 at 11:19 AM
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