Lego League
Lego robotics time! The 2005-2006 challenge for the FIRST Lego League project is up and ready. This year’s challenge is called Ocean Odyssey.
If you are not familiar with the FIRST Lego League, they run annual events where teams compete with robots built and programmed from Lego Mindstorms kits. The challenge is actually a series of tasks that must be completed by the robots, which must operate completely autonomously.
I can’t describe one of these programs well enough to do it justice. If you can find a local competition in your region, make every attempt to go and spend an hour or two to see these kids in action. You won’t believe the energy level or the sophistication of the devices they can create.
In Washington state, the local competition is sponsored by FIRST Washington, a subgroup of the Seattle Robotics Society. The regional competition will be December 3rd at Highland Middle school. I’ll be there!