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More than 175 Kids will compete with LEGO Robots and Animals Allies!

The competition is FREE and all members of the public are welcome to join in the day.
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On Saturday, December 10th, 18 FIRST Lego League (FLL) teams from North Bay and area will gather at Chippewa Secondary School to compete for bragging rights and a chance to participate at the Provincial FLL Championship in January.

The 2nd Annual North Bay FLL Qualifying Tournament is sponsored by FIRST Team 1305 and many 1305 students have been spending the last two months mentoring the FLL students and their teams.

The tournament has grown from 11 teams in 2015 to 18 teams in 2016!  This means, more than 175 kids (aged 9 to 14), 40 student, parent and teacher mentors, will be descending on Chippewa on December 10.

The theme of this year’s FLL challenge is ‘Animal Allies”.  Area FLL teams, composed of up to 10 students are tasked with building a robot out of LEGO and LEGO Mindstorms that autonomously runs ‘missions’ on a competition table.  As part of the process, Teams learn more about some of the challenges of animals and animal allies.  

Teams also create a project and presentation to show a problem that showcases a problem (centered on animals) and their proposed solution.  A panel of judges rates the team on numerous criteria and provides members with feedback.

The competition is FREE and all members of the public are welcome to join in the day.  Opening ceremonies take place at 8:00am, followed by a full day of table-top robotics matches and project presentations and judging.  Awards should be complete by 4:30.