14 Nov 2018
On Saturday 10th of November, nine students attended a robotics competition (FLL, First Lego League). The theme was “Into Orbit” (space) and our team name is “System Roverload”. We collaborated on our logo and team T-shirt design and then Bhargav compiled our ideas.
There are four different parts of the competition: the Robot Game (building and coding using Lego), robot design, a research project and Core Values (teamwork). The four parts contribute to your total score and the top six teams move forward to the next stage - the state competition.
Several problems were encountered but were swiftly solved and overcome. Our robot achieved a P.B. (Personal Best) on the day - 74 points, which we were very excited about. We came 9th out of 31 teams in the robot game and had lots of fun!
Dances, sweets and badges kept our spirits up and the experience was awesome!
We collaborated with two other teams: Project Bucephalus and the Gong Invaders - both teams are progressing to the state competition. We were particularly proud when we heard that the Gong Invaders came 1st place for the second year in a row and made it through to state with flying colours. Four out of five of the Gong Invaders were students at WPS in 2016, before leaving to go to High School. Congratulations Gong Invaders!
Written by Jayden Tamer and Lawrence Tsui, 5/6S