Me and Lucia at the Robotics Competition that LREI hosted!

On Sunday, January 29, LREI hosted the FLL Robotics qualifier at the high school. Since it was at our school, we got our own room to practice in. There are three parts of the FLL Robotics Competition. They are the robot, where there are challenges made of Legos for the robot to solve, and we have to make the robot complete those challenges. The second part is he research. Every year there is a theme, and this year was Animal Allies, so you had to choose a topic about the relationship between humans and animals then come up with a solution and present it. We chose the problem of sea turtles eating plastic bags. Did you know the #1 man-made thing in the ocean is plastic bags? Another part in the Robot Design; how the robot is designed.The last part is Core Values. The core values are Cooperitition (cooperation+competition,) Discovery, Integration, and Inclusion. This year you had to make a poster about your team using these Core Values, and one other that you chose. We chose to talk about Kids Do the Work. In our practice room we had the mat for the robots, and we had some computers for research. The 6th grade team went out to the Student Center to practice research. We did it about 5 times, and we all memorized our parts. We then practiced Core Values, and that went well too. We worked on the robot and then had lunch. Shortly after, it was time to go to robot design. We all went up bringing the robots, and everything including programs, computers, and our poster for Core Values. Next we went to CV and we had to look at a picture and tell the story. We then presented our poster, and they seemed to enjoy it. We went off to research, and they also seemed to be interested and it looked like they enjoyed it. We went down stairs to practice robots a little more, then we had to go to the robot comp. To be honest we did not do too well. Our robot started veering, but I still had fun. Then it was time for them to announce awards, and to our surprise we got 1st place CV!! That meant we would move on! And also to our surprise the 7th and 8th grade team got the champions award! In the end, it was a really awesome day, and we can’t wait for the text comp which is next weekend. March 4th!