The Lego Lords, a robotics team of fourth grade students at the GLOBE Academy and Kittredge Magnet School, will be traveling to California later this month to compete in Western Edge, a global competition bringing kids from kindergarten to eighth grade together to showcase their Lego robots.
The six fourth graders, who have been friends since kindergarten, have been fundraising for months to attend the competition, hosting spirit nights at Chick-fil-A and Fellini’s Pizza. During public comment at the Tucker City Council meeting on May 11, the boys announced that they had surpassed their $20,000 fundraising goal.
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The Lego Lords qualified for Western Edge by competing in the FIRST Lego League. FLL is a STEM competition guiding students through a global robotics program using Lego technology. In each competition, teams are evaluated for core values, innovation, robot design, and robot performance.
The team took home the Champions Award at the FLL Regional competition, won the Innovation Project Award and Champion’s Award at the FLL Super Regionals, and placed third in robot design at the state championship, earning them their spot at Western Edge. They are one of the two teams representing Georgia at the global competition.
“We’ve spent hundreds of hours designing, coding, rebuilding, and encouraging each other, and it paid off,” Luke, one of the team members, said during a Tucker City Council meeting in March. “…We are so excited to compete at Western Edge against 60 teams from the United States and 30 teams from around the world. This means that we won’t just be representing our school, we’ll be representing Georgia and Tucker.”
The Lego Lords will travel to Long Beach, California, for the three-day event, which begins on May 28. To keep up with the team, follow along on Facebook.
