Club Robots Invade Strategic Air & Space Museum
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
On January 30, 2010, over 50 members from Boys & Girls Clubs headed to the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland, NE to take part in the Nebraska First Lego® League Championship. At the event, Club members competed against other youth from across the state in a series of scenarios and obstacle courses – meant to challenge their reasoning, logic and problem solving skills.
Nancy Williams, information technology director of Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands, said team members must calculate turn angles, distances, the power necessary for certain tasks and other factors. “They don’t realize they’re doing physics, but there’s a lot of physics involved” in the project, Williams said.
“It’s like a puzzle,” said Andrew, 14, of the Westside Unit’s seven-member team. “We all work together as a team, and we get everything done as a team.”
Teams from the South and Council Bluffs Units and the Morton Middle School CLC brought trophies back to their Clubs. The South team received the “Against All Odds” award for persevering through technological difficulties. Council Bluffs took 3rd place for Teamwork and Morton CLC received the Judges Award for excellence.
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Quotes from Nancy Williams and Andrew courtesy of the Omaha World-Herald. Article can be found at http://www.omaha.com/article/20100131/NEWS01/701319918
