Our fantastic First Lego League team – St Katharine’s Lego Legends – took part in the regional competition in Bristol. Our young engineers had to design and build their Lego robot using our new Lego Spike Prime Set (thank you PTA) and then code it to complete a series of missions on a mat of Lego models. The theme for this year was ‘Submerged’ and all the missions has a nautical theme. Our team successfully released a giant squid, and moved it to safety, freed a shark and restored coral on several models. At the end of the league stage our team was in sixth place and qualified for the knock out rounds where they narrowly missed the final (on the First Lego League equivalent of goal difference), finishing in third place overall.
As part of the overall competition, the team had also had to research a problem related to underwater exploration and present this to a panel of judges in their ‘innovation project’. Here our innovative team won ‘best presentation’ for their project on improving visibility on underwater ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles). To complete this project our team had completed their own research, written to experts at several oceanographic organisations and universities and then used what they learned to create their own innovative solutions. They even wrote back sharing these and impressed the professionals, as well as the judges at the competition.
Builders and Engineers!