FIRST Lego League, an international robotics competition, where students build robots to perform tasks, and develop an innovation project to help tackle world issues held a competition at Rothesay Netherwood School. Image submitted.<\/p>\n
Students are using LEGO and robotics to solve real-world problems.<\/p>\n
FIRST LEGO League teamed with Amazon to tackle challenges involving cargo with a competition held at Rothesay Netherwood School in April.<\/p>\n
Julie Letkeman is a homeschool teacher in the Kennebecasis Valley and entered a team in the virtual component of the competition.<\/p>\n
Teams were challenged to come up with an idea on how to change something about how cargo is moved.<\/p>\n
The kids then come up with a problem, research it, and then develop and design a solution.<\/p>\n
Letkeman said their team decided to tackle the issues that delivery drivers face like falls, dog bites, and porch pirates.<\/p>\n
The students did research, chatted with airspace and drone specialists, and designed a prototype drone, that the driver could launch safely from their truck, to deliver packages.<\/p>\n
In one aspect of the competition, the students had to design, build, and code a robot to interact with a plane.<\/p>\n
[They] have it travel to the airplane, lift its arms so it can pull down a lever so that it can unload the plane cargo, back up and go back to base and then go out and do another mission, Letkeman said.<\/p>\n
She said interest is growing in the program.<\/p>\n
A couple of years ago there were only a couple of teams in New Brunswick. This year it seems like there were five or six first-year teams from school throughout New Brunswick, Letkeman said.<\/p>\n
Letkeman would love to see robotics get more attention since STEM learning science, technology, engineering and mathematics has become so important in todays world.<\/p>\n
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