In December, the First Lego League (FLL) Southern California championship tournament was held at LEGOLAND, and fifty-six different winners all over southern California participated. The tournament teams presented their project and robot. During two rounds of judging, as many as 10 judges quizzed each team on their robot design for hardware, software, efficiency, strategy, and innovation. Our Dingeman team, Master Mindstorms, was awarded first prize for “Innovation and Strategy.” The Robot Game competition was held at Legoland's showplace theater on stage where teams ran their robots to complete as many missions as they can in 2.5 minutes. Dingeman's team won the third place award in this Robot Game challenge. These are big wins for Dingeman considering the fact that our team was the youngest in the tournament. Earlier in November, our Dingeman team won the first prize championship award during qualifying tournament at Poway High School and advanced to championship level. The Championship Award is a collective first prize award for Project, Robot Design, Robot Game, and Core Values.
FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is an exciting alliance between FIRST and the LEGO® Group. It’s a robotics program for 9 to 14 year old, which is designed to get children excited about science and technology, and teach them valuable skills. Teams of up to 10 kids program an autonomous robot (using a LEGO MINDSTORMS® robot set) to score points on a thematic playing surface, create an innovative solution to a problem as part of their Project, all while guided by the FLL Core Values.
Here is the link to the video that we have uploaded on YouTube. Also attached below is a team picture holding all the trophies and robot.
From left Shruti Natala holding the Championship trophy, Shreya Goel holding the robot, Rajesh Goel (Coach), Rohan Agarwal holding robot design trophy, and Pahel Srivastava holding robot game trophy.
