The Marine Masters, the Namaste elementary robotics team, secured two trophies at the First Lego League competition, on Saturday, January 25th. The robotics championship arrived after months of hard work building and customizing their robot, coding for missions, and preparing a research presentation on deep sea diving. The first award the team received was for the most overall points scored by their robot over their three trials. The final award was for the overall championship, awarded to the team that performed best overall. They not only scored well in the robotic competition, but also presented their research project skillfully, and demonstrated the core values of the league: discovery, innovation, impact, inclusion, teamwork, and fun.
The team researched suits for deep sea diving with the hopes of supporting human efforts to understand and care for the earth’s oceans. The robot tasks included pulling, pushing, turning, striking, and gathering of objects on the table of challenges. The team members built custom attachments for their robot and coded the robot to move carefully through obstacles. Small groups of two students controlled the robot for each timed run of the competition. This early introduction to robotics and coding supports the students in their future building and engineering goals!