While in Cedar City I met with the State Coordinator from the University of Utah, Ann Bastien. She was very excited about the teams that are being organized in southeastern Utah. There are some teams forming from Grand, San Juan, and Carbon Counties. The organizers in Carbon have volunteered to host the qualifier for our region. That will give us a chance to go to a meet to qualify for the State Tournament at the University of Utah. The qualifier meet will be on Jan 7th at a place to be announced.
If you visited the links that I posted before, some of them talk about forming teams. FIRST LEGO League teams can be up to 10 kids from fourth to 8th grade. There are several parts of the competition ~ it's not just building and running the robot.There are the Robot Missions; the research project and presentation; and teamwork competition. Team members also do other activities to help build their problem solving skills, and learn to work cooperatively; and they also help with fund-raising so they can go to the tournaments.Each year there is a topic or theme for the annual competition. The 2011 theme is called Food Factor and it has to do with keeping contaminants out of food.
Here are some links for you to look at: (some of these are duplicates from below)
UTAH FIRST LEGO League
National FIRST LEGO League
and a video:
FIRST LEGO League video
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