Teams of students from Byron-Bergen Elementary and Jr. High Schools won awards at the FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO® League competition, November 17 at Churchville-Chili Middle School.
The Elementary School team, “The Lego® Bees,” won an award for completing the most missions and achieving the highest amount of points in the robotic portion of the competition.
The Jr. High School team, “The Robotic Bees,” won the award for best project.
The students designed a cane to help senior citizens rise from a kneeling or laying down position. To help achieve this project, the team attended a senior supper at the Gillam-Grant Community Center in Bergen and distributed a survey. They formed a focus group, and partnered with seniors who helped them come up with the winning design.
FIRST® is a robotics program for students age 9 to 16 designed to get them excited about science and technology. The theme this year was “Senior Solutions” and a total of 15 teams from around the area participated. Teams explore a problem that scientists and engineers are trying to solve, then they develop an innovative solution to that problem, and finally share their findings.
