First Lego League Competition Results

The 17 FIRST LEGO League teams competed Sunday, December 2nd, at the WPI qualifier in Worcester. The Oak and Sherwood teams did a great job and won 5 awards overall, including the prestigious Champion’s Award. Three of the award winning teams will be attending the State Championship on December 15th.

The Champion’s Award is given to the team who receives the most award nominations from the judges while still ranking in the top 40% with their robot scores. This was won by the 8th grade team Blue Lightning #13775. For their project they designed a dopamine inducing package for astronauts living in space for an extended period of time. This was to help alleviate the depression that is likely to ensue from this. They ran scientific trials to obtain data on which flavors improve a person’s mood. For their robot design the team used a number of sensors and modular attachments, allowing them to write code to utilize them. The team also displays the ethos of FIRST, promoting an interest in STEM with demonstrations of their robot and joining the high school Robotics Team in a number of their outreach activities. All of this is achieved by strong teamwork, perseverance and hard work. This team definitely models the qualities we try to encourage in this program.

Here is the list of winning teams and their awards:

Gracious Professionalism - Tech + Logic #25215 - 7th & 8th grade
Place at State Championship
Shivam Goel
Ramkarthic Ramanathan
Harish Rajagopalan
Karnik Donepudi
Kumaran Aathiysh Surgunavel
High school coach: Liam Wyman

Inspiration Award - Cool Dudes #9159 - 6th grade
Kasey Foote
Amal Nadaf
Abigail Mugo
Shifali MaheshGuru
High school coach: Zoe Rudnick

Strategy & Innovation Award - The Stargazers #9161 - 7th grade
Swathi Kannan
Noor Osmany
Trishna Nikte
Sanhita Kancharla
Renee Gowda
Shamika Kanitkar
High school coach: Josh Gelfond

We are very proud of all our teams and their high school coaches. They have all worked hard for the last few months and learned a great deal. This collaboration of middle and high school students benefits both groups, with the middle school students learning from their coaches and the high school coaches learning leadership skills which will also help them in their future.