Nearly 200 children ages nine to 14 filled the Burnaby Campus gymnasium on Saturday, January 9 in a bid to solve the world’s transportation problems—one LEGO block at a time.
This, the seventh annual BC FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Championship Tournament, saw eighteen teams from across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island compete to build and move LEGO robots through a series of challenges on a timed circuit. This year’s “Smart Move” theme explored transportation issues and the logistical problems associated with moving people, goods, and services in the safest, most efficient way possible.
The first-place finishers from this provincial event, a team from Victoria called the Circuit Stormers, were awarded the Championship Award and received an invitation to the FLL European Open Championship in Istanbul, Turkey this April.
See photos of this event and read an article about the qualifying event, held November 28, 2009.
