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The MIT prize-winning team at the end of the tournament

The First Lego League is an international robotics competition for young people that aims to promote the values of science and technology through the development of teamwork, innovation and creativity. Thus, more than 200,000 children between 10 and 16 years from over 60 countries research about the annual challenge and try, in 12 weeks and guided by their coaches, to achieve a robotic solution to it.

This year’s challenge is called Food Factor, and consisted in avoiding or resolving the pollution to which multiple food is exposed while passing through some of the stages that range from being created until reaching the stomach. And, in spite of being the first year that the MIT robotics team, led by Professor Mr. Arias, faced a challenge in the competition, the group won the 5th place in the Spanish classification among more than 30 teams!

Besides, at the event held last March 11 in Pamplona, MIT students won the Trophy for Entrepreneurship, which is the recognition of the team that has shown more initiative and confidence throughout the tournament, which has managed to cope with the problems with maturity and has found effective solutions to the adversities encountered during the preparation and development of the FLL. Congratulations to the winners!