FAIRBORN -- The Educational Outreach Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will sponsor the FIRST LEGO League Ohio State Championship Tournament February 9-10 at the Ervin J. Nutter Center, on the campus of Wright State University.
The annual event will bring together teams of some of Ohioâs brightest 9- to 14-year-old students who will demonstrate their engineering and problem-solving skills, critical thinking, teamwork, competitive play, sportsmanship, and sense of community. Thirty-six teams from across the state will compete in this two-day event. Local teams participating are: The Brickheads, Ohio Youth Robotics, Xenia; Psyclones, Beavercreek Neighborhood Group; The Avengers & The Brainy Bunch, Springboro Robotics; The Wacko WACO Walking Tacos, Waco Historical Society; Bananas, Dayton Home School Group; STEMBotics, Dayton Regional STEM School.
FIRST is an acronym for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
On February 9, teams will participate in closed-door judging, where they will meet with three panels of judges who will judge their teamwork, robot design and research project. The judging portion of the competition is not open to the public.
On February 10, robot table competitions will run on the main floor of the Nutter Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The competition is free and open to the public.
Along with the FLL Ohio State Championship, a Junior FIRST LEGO (Jr.FLL) Expo, a design and build program for small teams of children between the ages of 6 and 9, and a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) scrimmage, a robotics competition program for high school students, will be held. Twenty Jr.FLL teams from around the state will show off their Super Seniors solutions through their LEGO models and their research posters from 9 a.m. until noon, and 10 FTC teams from Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus and will scrimmage from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
FIRST is an organization founded in 1988 by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young peopleâs interest and participation in science and technology and the LEGO Group have partnered to challenge youth teams who use LEGO® bricks, motors, gears and software to design and build robots to solve real-world engineering challenges.
âThe Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson has been affiliated with FIRST LEGO since 2001 and has been the lead organization for the program in Ohio since that time,â said Kathy Levine, state FIRST LEGO League Director and Educational Outreach Office Robotics Program Manager at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
For more information about the championship tournament and the Ohio FIRST LEGO League program, click here.
The annual event will bring together teams of some of Ohioâs brightest 9- to 14-year-old students who will demonstrate their engineering and problem-solving skills, critical thinking, teamwork, competitive play, sportsmanship, and sense of community. Thirty-six teams from across the state will compete in this two-day event. Local teams participating are: The Brickheads, Ohio Youth Robotics, Xenia; Psyclones, Beavercreek Neighborhood Group; The Avengers & The Brainy Bunch, Springboro Robotics; The Wacko WACO Walking Tacos, Waco Historical Society; Bananas, Dayton Home School Group; STEMBotics, Dayton Regional STEM School.
FIRST is an acronym for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
On February 9, teams will participate in closed-door judging, where they will meet with three panels of judges who will judge their teamwork, robot design and research project. The judging portion of the competition is not open to the public.
On February 10, robot table competitions will run on the main floor of the Nutter Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The competition is free and open to the public.
Along with the FLL Ohio State Championship, a Junior FIRST LEGO (Jr.FLL) Expo, a design and build program for small teams of children between the ages of 6 and 9, and a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) scrimmage, a robotics competition program for high school students, will be held. Twenty Jr.FLL teams from around the state will show off their Super Seniors solutions through their LEGO models and their research posters from 9 a.m. until noon, and 10 FTC teams from Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus and will scrimmage from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
FIRST is an organization founded in 1988 by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young peopleâs interest and participation in science and technology and the LEGO Group have partnered to challenge youth teams who use LEGO® bricks, motors, gears and software to design and build robots to solve real-world engineering challenges.
âThe Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson has been affiliated with FIRST LEGO since 2001 and has been the lead organization for the program in Ohio since that time,â said Kathy Levine, state FIRST LEGO League Director and Educational Outreach Office Robotics Program Manager at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
For more information about the championship tournament and the Ohio FIRST LEGO League program, click here.
