FIRST® LEGO® League robotics competition 2013.

Today our team of ten Year 6, Year 7 and Year 8 students participated in the FIRST® LEGO® League robotics competition. The theme of this year's challenge was "Natures Fury", a reference to natural disasters and how robots can help in these situations. A complete description of the event, rules and the 19 missions can be found on their website. The fully set competition mat can be seen below:

And here is our team, celebrating our successful day!

This is a well organised annual event for under-16s held in many locations around the world.  Besides being an exciting day out, it is a fantastic opportunity to develop skills in programming, robotics, problem solving, teamwork and much else.  Recommended.

For sixth-form and college students (ages 16-18) Student Robotics, run by the University of Southampton and Bristol University, holds an annual robotics competition as well.