This post is from Beth Damon, Charlotte Central School's STEAM Teacher & Digital Learning Leader. This year the Charlotte Central Scientists competed in First Lego League's Challenge Mission Cargo Connect, which was held virtually again this year on January 23rd. The team of students did an awesome job designing and programming their EV3 Robot with coaching from CCS's STEAM Teacher & Digital Learning Leader Beth Damon and Jeremy Rauch, parent of two CCS student-team members. This year there were 17 other Vermont teams that participated. The CCS Scientists worked hard at their presentation for the judges and recording and uploading their challenge rounds. On the day of the competition, two of 8th-graders, Leah Rauch and Sam Moore, spoke before the judges' panel. These two students exemplified all of FIRST's most valued attributes, and we are so proud of them. Our team went through many challenges of its own as we were forced to divide our team of 22 into 2 groups due to Omicron and school safety directives. In spite of these logistical hurdles, the CCS Scientists did a great job coming together on the day of the event. We are proud of their continued hard work at CCS to keep robotics going after the event and appreciate our district leaders and staff who are working to bring more problem-based learning, robotics, and FIRST programs into our schools. Looking ahead, we are in the middle of grant applications to have enough of the new Lego Spike Prime robots for all of our K-8 schools for next year. FLL is a wonderful robotics opportunity for students of all ages. Thanks in advance for your support! ~ Beth Damon, Charlotte Central School's STEAM Teacher & Digital Learning Leader
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