Lego team won the crown princess – Rana Blad

This weekend 45 teams from Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands and Denmark in Copenhagen to participate in the Scandinavian final in FIRST LEGO League. There was also Team Korgen Lego Locos in place.

– Although we did not reach the very top, there has been a lot of work behind. We have worked a lot in the last three weeks, says supervisor, Kari Anne Storvoll.

Crown Princess Mary

It was a great experience for students to travel to Denmark on Friday to compete with and against the Scandinavian lego small.

– Saturday we had a kjempedag and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark came and opened it all. We have a kid who got to shake hands with her, after opening the crown princess went around and got demonstrated robotic drive. He went after and gave her a brochure about Hemnes municipality and a CD that the municipality created a few years ago. “A taste of Hemnes» named it, and is made of local musicians, tells Storvoll.

Korgen school did not have high enough up to get a placement, but the team is very happy anyway.

– In robot traffic island we got a 16th place overall, it is we very pleased with, but overall we do not know how we ended up since we were not nominated.

Saturday night visited kids Tivoli.

– They had fantastic and talked about both the one and others after having been there, says the mentor and laughing.

Three areas

FIRST LEGO League is a knowledge – and technology competition for young people between 10 and 16 years. Over 550 children and young people gathered in industry house in Copenhagen this year’s finale. There competed teams within three areas: research, technology and marketing / collaboration. In technology part solved layers different tasks with robots they have developed and built.

The theme of this year’s research task was “Tomorrow’s teaching,” and teams should define a problem, gather information and present a new, smart solution for judges.

Hard competition

45 teams had qualified for the regional finals in his home country, with 23 teams from Norway were chances for a Norwegian victory be good. Finals grandest price, Champion Price, went to the team Robot Bozz LEGO town Billund in Denmark.

Will inspire

Through the cooperation with FIRST LEGO League group wants to inspire young people to become interested in research, science and technology.

– For all of us who are passionate about science, this is a great day. Commitment and knowledge among participants is both impressive and important. Norway need good role models and young people who want to solve the challenges of tomorrow, and participants in the FIRST LEGO League is very good examples of this, says Marius Rosenberg Amundsen, sponsorship manager at Statoil.

A total awarded prizes in six categories, the winners are:

• FIRST LEGO League Champion: Robot Bozz (Billund)

• The research prize 1st place: Robot Bozz (Billund)

• Research Price 2nd place: Team Unicorn (Ballerup)

• Marketing Price 1st place: Team Sweden (Karlstad)

• Marketing Price 2nd place: Robo Mech (Bergen)

• Robot Competition 1.pris: Robot Bozz (Billund)

• Robot Competition 2nd place: Nonstop (Haugesund)

• Collaboration Price: Pythagoras (Agder)

• Technology Price 1st place: Nonstop (Haugesund)

• Technology Price 2nd place: doUmind (Stavanger)