Ten students from Annunciation Catholic School won the top prize at the FIRST LEGO League Challenge. The event was held virtually (after the ice storm in January delayed it) on Saturday, February 10th. FIRST LEGO League is an international organization dedicated to teaching young children STEM.

          The ACS team named the “Legendary Lego Legionnaires” impressed judges at the Golden Triangle Qualifier with their robot’s “extensive research and development”. Ten teams from northern Mississippi competed in the Golden Triangle Qualifier.

        The competition consists of four areas: innovation project, robot game, robot design and core values. For the robot game, teams had to design and code a robot to complete as many missions as possible on a game board in two minutes and thirty seconds. There are no remote controls, the robot must be fully automated.
Students from ACS have worked since August, to build, program and practice with their Robot “Omega 12”.
With this win, they will move on to the state competition in Pearl, Mississippi on Saturday, February 24th.

 

          The Legionnaires Coach/Teacher Nichole Cancellare was recognized at the awards ceremony
with the Coach/Mentor award. Students wrote to the judges: “Our coach puts a lot of time and work into
our team and into us, without her we would be so lost. She sacrifices so much of her time so we can have
a chance to compete. She is nice, great and encouraging.”

 

Students involved:
7th grade – Amy Cancellare, Liana Cotman, Nadia Heinkel, Mary Mack Walker, Lucas Frauendienst
8 th Graders – Anthony Bauman, Ben Ussery, Isaac Zarandona, Hayden Torres, Mark Leonard