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2011 SCH FIRST LEGO League Challenge

A spectator sport unlike any other!

A gymnasium full of excited kids and their cheering fans—that’s what you’ll see and hear at the 2011 SCH LEGO League Challenge.

Twenty six area teams, ages 9-14, go head to head using their engineering, research, and presentation smarts to conquer both robotics and design challenges.

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The theme of this year’s competition is Food Factor, and each team has designed a LEGO robot to complete up to 20 complex food safety tasks set out on a tabletop competition field. Tasks include removing pesky pests (aka plastic LEGO rats) from a grain silo, setting a refrigerator thermometer to the right temperature, removing pollution (aka round plastic balls) from a water source, and even catching “fish” (made from LEGOs, of course!).

Meet the student teams, roam the “pits,” watch robot demos, and create your own LEGO contribution to add to our LEGO town.

Sponsored by Vulcan Springs, SCH Academy, University of Pennsylvania, and FIRST, the national organization that seeks to promote young people’s interest in science and technology through robotics, this competition is the first in a series of area qualifiers. Winners will go on to compete at the state level and potentially the national/international level.  Two middle school teams from SCH Academy will compete and two lower school teams will do a demo as part of a Junior FLL Showcase.

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