Under Pressure shines at provincial championships

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Lego League Robotics team Under Pressure
News Release

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On Saturday, December 6, 2008, the F.I.R.S.T. Lego League Robotics team Under Pressure from North Bay accepted the 1st place – Research Project Award at the FLL Robotics Ontario Provincial Championship Tournament held at St. Mildred-Lightbourn School in Oakville, Ontario. This award is given for the Research and Presentation component of the F.I.R.S.T. Lego League Robotics challenge and is based on research quality, innovative solutions, and creative presentation. Forty (40) teams from around Ontario participated in this one-day provincial competition.

North Bay’s Under Pressure advanced to this tournament by winning the Champion’s Award at the Northern Ontario Regional Tournament held two weeks earlier at Science North in Sudbury. Under Pressure is a team of seven boys, aged 11 to 14, from North Bay and surrounding area.

This is the third consecutive year that Team Under Pressure has advanced to Provincials from the local tournament and the second year in a row that they accepted the award for having the best Research Project in FLL competition in Ontario.

F.I.R.S.T. Lego League is an international program that combines a hands-on interactive robotics program with a competitive sport edge. Within an eight week period, teams design, build, and program a fully autonomous robot made of Lego to complete the missions set out in the challenge.

Teams that compete in this challenge are judged in four areas: their robot performance of missions, the technical aspects of their robot design and programming, their research and presentation, and how well they to work as a team.

The challenge theme for 2008 is Climate Connections – discovering the links between our climate and science, people, resources, and communities. For the research component, each team was required to identify a problem in our area linked to climate. They then had to create a solution with positive impacts both locally and globally and bring their findings to their community.

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