The Community Middle School girls robotics team, Automatons Silver, won the Project Runner Up Award at the FIRST LEGO League Regional Competition.
The FIRST LEGO League Regional Competition, which was held at WW-P High School South on Nov. 19, presents a challenge for students to complete. Each challenge has three parts: the robot game, the project and the core values.
Student teams program an autonomous robot to score points on a themed played field (the robot game), developing a solution to a problem they have identified—all guided by the competition’s core values.
This year’s theme was Animal Allies, and the Automatons Silver team—Shriya Sudhakar, Sravani Kotapati, Josephine Wang, Kriti Hari, Shreeya Patnam, Spandana Rao and Anjali Sanapala, headed by coach Aaron Herl—worked on saving an endangered species called the Atlantic Bluefin tuna with their Robot named ATLAS.
With perfect core values, the Automatons Silver qualified for the upcoming state competition.
