FIRST Lego League and Concussion Due to Soccer Heading Prevention Awareness

Purple Stormgears, an all girls FIRST Lego League (FLL) Team from Westford, MA participated in the Leominster, MA Regional FLL Qualifying Tournament. The Purple Stormgears won the ‘Programming Award’ – which recognizes a team that utilizes outstanding programming principles. The team also qualifyied to participate in the upcoming Massachusetts State FLL Championship RoboNautica to be held in WPI on Dec 20th, 2014.The Purple Stormgears built a Lego Mindstorm Robot that scored the 6th place overall and also worked on a research project related to ‘Concussions in Soccer’. In the recent times there is a growing concern of young girls being subject to concussion while playing soccer. Most of the time the concussion is the result of repeated heading of the ball, collision with other players or falling down, are girls doing something different than boys? How do girls learn to head the ball while learning soccer? Are they using proper technique? What precautions they can take to protect from repeated concussions?The team would like to bring the awareness about identifying and preventing concussions to the community.

More detail can be found: Concussion Awareness

More detail about the team and their project: Blog - Creation Station