Red Oak MS Lego Robotic Team
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On Saturday, November 10 the Red Oak Middle School’s Lego Robotic Team “R.O.A.R.”(Red Oak Advanced Robotics) traveled to Villisca, Iowa to compete in the First Lego League Qualifying Tournament. This year’s Lego competition theme was “Into Orbit”.
The team had an outstanding day , receiving three top awards and qualifying for the January 19, 2019 Iowa First Lego League State Tournament which will be held on the campus of Iowa State University.
The awards earned:
* First place in Robot Performance with a high score of 138 points.
*The Champion’s Award. This award recognizes a team that embodies the FIRST LEGO League experience, by fully embracing our Core Values while achieving excellence and innovation in both the Robot Game and Project.
* The Global Innovation Award for their project solution of using chromotherapy in space to aid in the emotional and psychological problems that astronauts may suffer during long periods of time in space.
(an official description of this award)
“The FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award is designed to showcase the real-world, innovative solutions that FIRST LEGO League teams create as a result of their Project.
FIRST LEGO League trains kids to think like innovators. The Award encourages and assists teams to further develop solutions to real-world problems that demonstrate originality and have the potential to add significant value to the world.”
Members of this year’s team are 8th Graders; Josie Rengstorf, and Tessa Rolenc. 7th Graders; Joshua LeRette, Cyrus Mensen, Peyton Echternach, and Hunter Jarrett. 6th graders Landon Gigstad and Kyler Sandholm and 5th Grader; Santiago Vasquez.
The team is coached by ELO teacher Trish Fellers and Mr. Julian Vasquez along with Freshman high school mentor Sebastian Vasquez .
Both Mrs. Fellers and Mr. Vasquez are extremely proud of these students for their hard work, determination, and the professionalism they showed during competition. We are excited and proud to represent the Red Oak community and school district at the state tournament in January.