Legos Build Core Values, Innovation At Centennial Schools Tournament

WARMINSTER, PA —They joined forces to compete against each other using items that most of us played with when we were younger.

Legos served as the building blocks of the FIRST LEGO League Regional Qualifying Tournament hosted by the Klinger Middle School on Jan. 14.

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Seventeen teams from as far away as the Poconos showed up to compete in three areas: Innovation, Robotic Engineering, and Core Values, Centennial School District officials said.

The FIRST LEGO League is a global challenge for students in grades 4 through 8.

This year's theme was "Super Powered," and students learned about the transfer of different types of energy. They had to innovate a solution to a problem they've researched within the community and share it with volunteer judges from the community, Centennial school officials said.

Centennial was represented by the Willow Dale, McDonald, Log College, and Klinger school teams.

Each team could have up to 10 students. School officials said teams prepared for the event since September.

Willow Dale came home with the "Breakthrough Award," "celebrating teams that made significant progress in their confidence and capability in both the Robot Game and Innovation Project and are shining examples of excellent Core Values. They demonstrate that they understand that what they discover is more important than what they win," school officials said.

McDonald's students won the "Rising All-Star Award." This means that the judges noticed them and expected great things from them in the future, school officials stated.

The Klinger Klippers Black Team won a "Judge's Award" for their tenacity.

"It was a great day celebrating student achievement, successes, and failures," the school district stated in a Facebook post.

The school district thanked the Log College and Klinger Home and School Associations, the Centennial Education Foundation, Quaint Oak Bank, and all of the volunteers that helped with the event.