Seaford Team Heading To LEGO Robotics World Finals

The Seaford Sea Lions team took home the top prize at the LEGO League Long Island Championship Tournament, and will now be heading to the World Festival.

The event, held on March 3 at Longwood High School, challenged Long Island middle school students to demonstrate their problem-solving skills, creative thinking, teamwork, competitive play, sportsmanship and sense of community.

FIRST LEGO League Team 92, the Sea Lions, of Seaford, took home the First Place Champion’s Award and will be attending the World Festival in Detroit on April 24-27. FIRST LEGO League Team 33410, the Taco Brothers, of Garden City, secured the Second Place Champion’s Award and will be attending the Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas on May 16-19.

After eight weeks of research and design, 200 teams competed in six qualifiers for an opportunity to be one of 39 teams to participate in the Championship Tournament. This season’s challenge was INTO ORBIT, and teams chose and solved a real-world problem faced by humans during long-duration space exploration within our solar system. They also built, tested and programmed an autonomous robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS to solve a set of missions in the Robot Game.

The FIRST LEGO League competition is judged in three areas: project presentation; overall robot performance, design and programming; and teamwork, with a consideration of the FIRST LEGO League Core Values. The highest honor went to the team that best succeeds in these areas and exemplifies the spirit and values of the program.