Crissman Elementary's Lego Robotics team captured two second place awards in the state finals of the tournament.
The team - the Gummy Guardians - was named second place Grand Champion and earned a second place Robot Performance Award at the Southeast Michigan State FIRST Lego League (FLL) tournament.
FIRST Lego Robotics introduces younger students (ages 9-14) to real-world math, science, technology & engineering challenges by conducting a research project and building LEGO-based robots to complete tasks on a thematic playing surface. FLL teams annually compete under a theme, with this year’s challenge being “Nature's Fury”.
Crissman's second place Grand Champion Award was presented for having a strong score in all areas of the competition including research and project presentation, team work, and robot strategy and performance.
The Robot Performance award was earned for scoring 520 points in the robot competition, which was the 2nd highest robot score in the tournament.
The Crissman team qualified for the state tournament after being named Grand Champion at the Utica Community Schools ThunderQuest competition.
Team members are Samantha Lewis, Madelyn Brown, Aidan Dupke, Kathryn Roy, Cheyenne Smith, Carter O'Donnell, Nicholas Tobin and Malow Junior High Mentor Alexander Roy.
