FLL (First LEGO League)

The MYP Robotics Club just finished another excellent international challenge: the First Lego League International Robotics Competition here in Qatar. Two months ago we assembled a team of seven students from the Robotics Club. These students worked very hard for this competition, as it is not simply a robotics competition. Aspects of teamwork, cooperation, generousness, sportsmanship, and other qualities were taken into place. The team had to come up with ways to share and become involved with the other teams, as well as impress upon the judges what strong team values they had. In preparation the students designed and printed T-shirts for the team, created a project that involved an innovative solution for helping the blind to learn to navigate independently (a GPS enabled walking stick with voice control), as well as making posters and prototypes in order to best present their design concept to the judges.

Following their presentation were two days of intense robotic competition. Essentially they needed to program their robot to navigate through an obstacle course in which the robot interacted with a wide variety of mechanisms.

Our team did very well against the other schools, even though they were up against some very tough competition. We won 3rd Place overall in Robotic Design, something to be very proud of indeed!

We are very proud of our Robotics Club team and we are working hard already on preparing for the competition next year. It goes without saying that we had a lot of fun, and most importantly we learned the value of teamwork and friendly competition.