Congratulations to the BCS Cybernetic Dragon Fury Robotics Team for their performance at this year’s First Lego League competition. We are very proud of you!
The team placed 1st in the Research Project Presentation and 9th overall at the San Diego Regional Tournament, qualifying them to progress to the California Regional Tournament at Legoland this past November. At the Legoland competition, the team finished in the middle of the pack (31 out of 60 teams), an outstanding accomplishment and an amazing experience.
Leading up to the events, team members Carl Ogren, Jeremiah Kubota, Zachary Barner-Martin, Daniel Thompson, and Jacob Sullivan, spent 10 weeks designing, building, programming and driving a robot to complete a series of missions – all using Legos!
They focused the research component of the competition on improving ankle mobility of a prosthetic leg. The research project included print and web research, interviewing a leg amputee and a trip to the Computer Science and Engineering, Robotics Lab at UCSD.
A sincere thank you to coaches Pat and Mona Sullivan and an extra kudos to BCS high school student Alejandro Levesque for serving as Team Mentor for the 2010-2011 school year. The team is forming now for the 2011- 2012 school year, please contact the school office if you’re interested in participating.
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