Teams from 59 elementary and middle schools traveled to Legoland yesterday (December 1, 2007) to compete in the First Lego League Championship Tournament. The competition pits “children around the globe against one another in robotics building and programming competitions, team Hackn’Botz [from Burbank, CA] has worked on training and building its robot for the last two months.”
The students must work together to program the robot’s brain to perform different missions on a pre-made map. As an added theme and learning requirement, all the missions make a lesson in conservation and green living.
See, Legoland does occasionally give back.
Of course, none of this was free. Legoland still charges a $20 admission for team members and coaches and $25.95 for friends and family. How else are they going to pay for that new aquarium?
[Link: Burbank Leader]
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