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Lego Mindstorm introduces students to real-world engineering challenges by building LEGO-based robots to complete tasks on a thematic playing surface. Teams, guided by their imaginations and adult coaches, discover career possibilities.
This years challenge was called Food Factor. This challenge was all about keeping food safe from the field all the way to the kitchen table. Students participate in four events.
The events include a robot challenge, which requires them to solve problems using engineering and robotics, a research project that requires them to come up with a solution to a real problem, research it and then present their solution to a panel of judges, a teamwork event in which the team goes into a room where there is a team challenge waiting for them and they are given two minutes to discuss the problem and one minute to present a solution. The judges will then evaluate them on how well they respond as a team and work to solve the problem. The last event is a robot design. This event is a Q&A about how they built and use the robot and how they came up with the solutions. Judges ask students questions to try to discover what was the reasoning behind the design and function of their robot.
This year, the East Peoria Bacterial Bandits were one of three teams from East Peoria and won first place for Robot Design and qualified for the state finals in Chicago in January. If the team places in the top three, they will move on to the World Competition in St. Louis.
Lego Mindstorm is less about Lego and more about putting the kids into a new form of education. It allows them to work on learning more in a fun, exciting, competitive arena.
Both Lego Mindstorm teams from Bolin School, as well as a team from Central Junior High School that included three Bolin students, represented District 86 at the Regional Lego Robotics tournament held Dec. 10 at the Renaissance Coliseum at Bradley University.
Lego Mindstorm is a combination of robotics (programming and math skills), science research, teamwork and robot design. Due to the large number of teams that compete in this area, central Illinois is divided into three tournament sections; the District 86 teams were placed in different sections. All three teams qualified for the state tournament to be held Jan. 21 in Chicago.
Final results are:
Bolin Builders: first place for Robot Performance (robot performing tasks on the field table), overall Champions Award in their tournament, and qualified in first place for state in their tournament; team members include Marisa Hoosen, Brayden Girdler, Danielle Kramer, Meghan Unes, Kaitlyn Carlson, Hunter Parrish, Jerry Decker, Alex Lane, Jake Wahmann and Ashley Sholl.
Educated Eaters: third place for state in their tournament and won a Rookie award; team members include Carter Sellers, Mariah Tippet, Rebecca Ransom, Hailey Thompson, Zach Sommer, Ryan Sosnowski, Kyle Woodard, Randi Robeson and Ethan Sabotta.
RoboRaiders: first place in Robot Design and qualified third place overall for state in their tournament; the Bolin students on this team included Sam Dray, Mara Dimitroff, Paul Peterson and from CJHS Tala Dimitroff, Connor Mounts, Connor Billard, Sam Dray, Kristin Heyder and Noah Blascyk
Lego Mindstorm introduces students to real-world engineering challenges by building LEGO-based robots to complete tasks on a thematic playing surface. Teams, guided by their imaginations and adult coaches, discover career possibilities.
This years challenge was called Food Factor. This challenge was all about keeping food safe from the field all the way to the kitchen table. Students participate in four events.
The events include a robot challenge, which requires them to solve problems using engineering and robotics, a research project that requires them to come up with a solution to a real problem, research it and then present their solution to a panel of judges, a teamwork event in which the team goes into a room where there is a team challenge waiting for them and they are given two minutes to discuss the problem and one minute to present a solution. The judges will then evaluate them on how well they respond as a team and work to solve the problem. The last event is a robot design. This event is a Q&A about how they built and use the robot and how they came up with the solutions. Judges ask students questions to try to discover what was the reasoning behind the design and function of their robot.
This year, the East Peoria Bacterial Bandits were one of three teams from East Peoria and won first place for Robot Design and qualified for the state finals in Chicago in January. If the team places in the top three, they will move on to the World Competition in St. Louis.
Lego Mindstorm is less about Lego and more about putting the kids into a new form of education. It allows them to work on learning more in a fun, exciting, competitive arena.
Both Lego Mindstorm teams from Bolin School, as well as a team from Central Junior High School that included three Bolin students, represented District 86 at the Regional Lego Robotics tournament held Dec. 10 at the Renaissance Coliseum at Bradley University.
Lego Mindstorm is a combination of robotics (programming and math skills), science research, teamwork and robot design. Due to the large number of teams that compete in this area, central Illinois is divided into three tournament sections; the District 86 teams were placed in different sections. All three teams qualified for the state tournament to be held Jan. 21 in Chicago.
Final results are:
Bolin Builders: first place for Robot Performance (robot performing tasks on the field table), overall Champions Award in their tournament, and qualified in first place for state in their tournament; team members include Marisa Hoosen, Brayden Girdler, Danielle Kramer, Meghan Unes, Kaitlyn Carlson, Hunter Parrish, Jerry Decker, Alex Lane, Jake Wahmann and Ashley Sholl.
Educated Eaters: third place for state in their tournament and won a Rookie award; team members include Carter Sellers, Mariah Tippet, Rebecca Ransom, Hailey Thompson, Zach Sommer, Ryan Sosnowski, Kyle Woodard, Randi Robeson and Ethan Sabotta.
RoboRaiders: first place in Robot Design and qualified third place overall for state in their tournament; the Bolin students on this team included Sam Dray, Mara Dimitroff, Paul Peterson and from CJHS Tala Dimitroff, Connor Mounts, Connor Billard, Sam Dray, Kristin Heyder and Noah Blascyk
