April 12, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Calvert Shines at LEGO Robotics Championship
Calvert County students showed off their engineering and programming skills at the 2019 Southern Maryland LEGO Robotics Championship, hosted by the College of Southern Maryland at the LaPlata Campus on April 6, 2019. The competition consisted of 31 elementary schools and 17 middle schools from the tri-county area.
Dr. Daniel D. Curry, Superintendent, said, “Preparing for this competition is a fun way for our students to learn valuable STEM skills that will transition to higher-level courses.”
This year's challenge theme was “Nature's Fury.” Teams used LEGO Mindstorm/EV3 robotic systems to build robots and earned points for each task the robot successfully completed. In addition, teams completed a research project related to the challenge.
The winners from Calvert County are:
Elementary LEGO Winners
| School Name
|
Team Name
|
Award
|
| Barstow Elementary |
Team Fury |
10th place Robot Performance |
| Barstow Elementary |
Tornado Heads |
7th place Robot Performance |
| Beach Elementary |
Disaster Blaster |
2nd place Robot Performance and Presentation Award |
| Beach Elementary |
Terrifying Tornadoes |
3rd place Robot Performance and Project Award |
| Calvert Elementary |
Infernobots |
6th place Robot Performance |
| Sunderland Elementary |
RoboRockers |
8th place Performance |
Middle School LEGO Winners
| School
|
Team Name
|
Award
|
| Calvert Middle |
CMSH |
Innovative Solution Award, Mechanical Design Award, Champion's Award |
| Mill Creek Middle |
Volcano Rhinos |
Team Work Award and Robot Design Award |
| Northern Middle |
A Team |
2nd place Programming Award |
| Northern Middle |
B Team |
Rising Star Award |
| Plum Point Middle |
Breakers |
Inspiration Award |
| Plum Point Middle |
Radical Robots |
Strategy and Innovation Award |
| Windy Hill Middle |
Fantastic Floods |
1st place Robot Performance and Project Award |
| Windy Hill Middle |
Lego Knights |
6th place Robot Performance and Research Award |
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Media Contact
Catherine Page
443-550-8105
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