Parents – we need help! We must have two adults per team in order to run the teams. Students with a parent volunteering get priority for spots on the teams. Practices are on Wednesday afternoons until mid-December. We’re particularly looking for adults who can support and focus student behavior – not technical issues. Lego training provided.
Great River will have four Lego League teams again this year. And they are now full. Please check back again next year.
Twelve students, four mentors and three parents made the journey to Duluth, where we played 19 matches and came home with a third place trophy. A good time was had by all!
So much is getting done! Right now Kelli, Sam, and Lex are working on bumpers (pictures 1 + 2); Ethan and Zo are milling pieces for the robot (pic 3); Nick and Emilio are working on the chassis (pic 4); Robert, Sean, and Brad are working on pneumatics (pic 5); Wesley, Lando, Connor, Anna, Elizabeth, Henry, Lukas, and Mark are all working on electronics (pic 6); and, last but not least, Alex and Noah are CADing (pic 7). Good work, teams!
PowerUp is about power cubes, or milk crates. Who wants to shoot milk crates? Apparently – us!
FIRST PowerUp is all about strategy. A retro video game collided with FIRST game developers, and came up with a crazy complicated game. We love it.
The first step was a bunch of quiet reading time to learn the rules.
Then small groups to figure out what those rules mean. How can we score points? Is there a way to guarantee a win? 
