Girl Scout From South Brunswick Reaches Robotics Regionals With Team

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A student from South Brunswick will be participating in the state regionals of a robotics championship with her team of Girl Scouts on Dec. 10 and 11.

Girl Scout Cadette Samyuktha Raja from Crossroads South Middle School is part of The Dream Squad, an all-Girl Scouts Robotics team. The team of six consists of five 8th Graders and one 6th grader.

While Raja is from South Brunswick, the other team members are students from the West Windsor Plainsboro Regional School District. The girls knew each other through Girl Scouts and came together because of their mutual interests in robotics.

On Nov. 19 the team won the top ‘Championship’ award at qualifiers beating 24 teams. They now advance to the NJ State Regionals of the North First Lego League Challenge Championship Event to be held at Mt. Olive High School in Flanders on Dec. 10 and 11.

Champions have to demonstrate strong scores in all rounds including Innovation Project, Robot Design, Core Values, and Robot Run.

According to the Squad’s coaches, the team enjoyed the competition, by helping other teams with their posters, cheering, and presenting their project to the judges.

For their innovation project, the Dream Squad ideated, designed and built a model of an airborne wind energy (AWE) kite turbine using Legos.

The model could solve the financial and technological problems related to scaling of conventional wind turbines in developing nations, and at the same time increase efficiency.

The Dream Squad was formed by the West Windsor and Plainsboro Service Unit of Girl Scouts of Central and Southern NJ.

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