After an amazing, research-filled, hard-coding and creative-designing season, the Granite School District Lego League Teams (39 in all) just finished off the year with a fun and exciting qualifying meet at Granger High School on Saturday, January 25th.   12 teams will attend the state championship qualifier on Saturday, February 1st at Weber State University. 

With over 50 coaches, and 60 volunteers guiding from the side, the students researched public spaces and designed an innovative improvement. They designed a Lego robot,  programmed it to complete three “missions” in 2 1/2 minute runs, and built teams that functioned cooperatively with “gracious professionalism.” 

The teams continuing on to the state tournament will be:

• • The Jefferson Jr. Minifigs in Black

  • The Moss Lego My Eggo  and Lords of the Legos teams 

  • West Lake’s STEM Metrocity team 

  • The Arcadia Master Builders and Lego Engineers 

  • Penn Elementary’s Constructores de cuidad Penn and The Builders 

  • Smith RTW Hawks 

  • The Eastwood Lego Legacies 

  • The Wilson Elementary Mission Possibles 

  • Magna Elementary Magna Mayor Masons 

Teams that won trophies at the event were:

• Moss, the Lego My Eggo team won 2nd place at state for their presentation 

• Arcadia Master Builders team won a 1st place trophy in the Core values area for "Inspiration" 

• Calvin Smith team, The RTW Hawks, won a 2nd place trophy for "Gracious Professionalism" 

Also, recognition for an outstanding achievement goes to:

• The Jefferson team Minifigs In Black had the highest robot games score ever for a GSD team with 335 points 

Congratulations everyone, and good luck at the State Tournament! 

Thank you Cherie Anderson, Team Lead in the Educational Technology Department,  for this news article and for her amazing work and dedication as the coordinator for the district FLL events. 

Thank you Tom Sparks, STS at Morningside and Spring Lane, for the photography and capturing all the exciting moments at the FLL district tournament!