What is it?

Our First Lego League robotics team for grades 9-12 works to design, build, and program a competitive robot which is able to outperform another team's robot in a battle-like game where they ally themselves with two other teams. The students head to a regional competition in the spring to present their robot and an innovation project to the judges.

When do we meet?

Our robotics team has structured meetings every Monday until competition, and has "open lab" time in the library on Wednesdays and Fridays to work on our robotics projects. The last few weeks leading up to competition, we have "open lab" and structured meetings every lunch period. Students may join the team and not travel to the competition, but members are highly encourages to support the team by going to the regional competition.

What do we do?

During structured meetings we learn about the different assigned tasks that our robot must accomplish, brainstorm design techniques, and work on our innovation project: a creative solution to an issue surrounding the annual theme. During "open lab" students work on building the Lego map obstacles, building and revising robots, programming tasks, and practicing with the robot on the map.

How do I join?

Students must fill out a permission slip to officially join the robotics team, which can be obtained from Miss Kulak or on the library club bulletin board in the hallway. Students that do not want to join the team, but would like to recreationally build robots may do so during "open lab" times without a permission slip.