Two Southern California schools -- Glendale's Roosevelt Middle School & Reseda's Shirley Avenue Elementary School -- captured top honors at a Lego robotics competition sponsored by JPL on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
The winning schools were two of 12 schools that participated in the second annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition, held at JPL's von Karman auditorium. JPL is the local NASA partner for 25 schools in Southern California.
The school teams spent months creating small, software-enabled Lego robots for this contest, which encourages students to study math, science, technology & engineering. Students could not use remote controls & had to pre-program their robots to navigate an obstacle course & perform tasks such as retrieving simulated planetary mineral formations -- all within two minutes.
The winning teams:
Elementary Division
First Place: Pirate Tigers
Shirley Avenue Elementary School, Reseda
Second Place: No Fear
North Ridge Magnet School, Moreno Valley
Third Place: Nightmares
Lakeview Elementary School, Huntington Beach
Middel/High School Division
First Place: Robotic Roughriders
Roosevelt Middle School, Glendale
Second Place: Tinkerbots
Kranz Intermediate School, El Monte
Third Place: Terrabytes II
Village Academy High School, Pomona
Other Awards
Robot Design: Las Bellas team
Joyner Elementary School, Los Angeles
Ingenuity: Robotic Roughriders team
Roosevelt Middle School, Glendale
Good Neighbor: Nightmares & Spikers teams
Lake View Elementary School, Huntington Beach
Against All Odds: Robotic Tigers team
Johnson Magnet School, San Diego
Against All Odds: Cybernetic Minds
Jack Weaver School, Murietta
Phoenix: Scorpions & Pirate Tigers teams
Shirley Avenue Elementary School, Reseda
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