First Lego League - Y2

This is the second year that we offer the FIRST Lego League Robotics after school academy. Last year, due to the competition dates that coincided with our holidays, we were not able to complete the program and take our kids to the competition. But this year promises to be different. The date for the competition does favor our school calendar and the team is working hard and has advanced throughout the semester. This is what's happened so far on Mondays after school:

• Learning about the Into Orbit challenge, the FLL program, and the core values.
 

• Deciding on which challenge to work on. (Building houses in space)


• All together the team builds the Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot.
 

• Practicing coding skills as they await for the mission models to arrive.

• Mission models arrived! Time to build all of them.
 

• Setting up the challenge table.


• Deciding on the team's official name. ("Techno")

• Challenge table is ready!


• Working on programming the missions.

It's been an amazing semester and as you can see, we are full steam ahead and will be working next on refining the missions, putting together the challenge presentation and getting ready for the tournament.

Cheers!




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