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El equipo de MIT School posa con su trofeo en la fase clasificatoria del FLL 2014

The MIT School team poses with its trophy in the FLL 2014 classificatory phase / This pic belongs to FLL Sevilla

Like every year, the MIT School robotics team polishes its Lego pieces, meshes the engines and imagines robots that will later be real. This part of the process is exciting in itself, but is also great to win prizes after that much effort invested in creating!

That is precisely what has happened again: last weekend, the School students won the First Lego League Classificatory Tournament in Seville, and qualified for the FLL Grand Final, to be held at the Colegio La Salle Bonanova in Barcelona on March 23. You can view photos of the event here.

 

 

 

In Barcelona, ​​35 teams from the 21 FLL Qualifying Tournaments will compete with its Robots and Science Projects for a place in the International Tournament by beating this year’s challenge: Nature’s Fury. To do so, participants will investigate about impressive storms, earthquakes, tsunamis… in short, they will learn all about natural disasters, in order to propose solutions to either control them or minimize its effects.

All of these, of course, without forgetting the FLL values​​, summarized in the FLL “credo”: “We are a team / We work to find solutions with the help of our coaches / We honor the spirit of friendly competition / What we discover is more important than what we win / We share our experiences with the others / We show professional courtesy in everything we do / We have fun! ”

However, these important values ​​do not reflect everything that the participation in the tournament, and in general, the inclusion of robotics in the classroom, means to the students. To discover the importance in learning of creating a project of this size, you can watch the video below:

 

 

 

Our team, The Unicorns, faces this upcoming national challenge with much excitement, and they don’t forget that they have achieved this success thanks to the training provided by Mr. Arias. Hopefully, they will have an easier time than their mates in the First Tech Challenge, who, last year, had to create a robot from scratch the night before the tournament! All the School sends its support to these young scientists who proved to be so creative, hardworking and passionate that will for sure reap the fruits of their efforts in Barcelona in form of new friends, fun, knowledge, and who knows? Maybe even a new award!