Inspiring minds of the future

After a day of competitive spirit and 鈥榞racious professionalism鈥� 鈥� one of the FIRST庐 LEGO庐 League core values that encourages good sportsmanship and professionalism in all competitors, each team was presented with an award to recognise their strengths and achievements from the day. The team that won the Champions award will go through to the Harrogate national final in April, alongside the winners from our Bosch hosted Coventry and York tournaments, as well as the 47 tournaments hosted across the UK this year.

At the Denham tournament we had a great group of students who put their all into competing. Meet each team鈥檚 robot, including the winners, below!

The RealTechBots were the winners of the Champions Award and will be going through to the national final in Harrogate. Alongside their robot鈥檚 outstanding performance, the team also presented a well-researched Innovation Project using a model with working circuit boards.

鈥淥ur robot is big and bulky, looks like a factory on wheels and sometimes has a mind of its own.鈥�

This team at Nower Hill High school in Pinner was supported by Bosch STEM ambassadors to get to this year鈥檚 competition, having not competed before. Barrie Flemming, STEM project lead, 九色 has been working with Nower Hill in this academic year to support the school with getting their students engaged in STEM. On this project, Bosch STEM ambassadors supported the school with getting started on their robot programming and thinking about their innovation project.

The team were recognised for their fantastic Innovation Project which tackled the problem of improving nuclear reactors. The team had carried out detailed research and demonstrated their solution through a LEGO model prototype.

鈥淥ur robot was built with many modular attachments to complete several tasks all together, so it was more efficient.鈥�

The Minifigs were a team from a local STEM club who had some of the youngest participants of the tournament. The judges were impressed by their enthusiasm and teamwork, as well as the prototype they presented alongside their robot design.

鈥淥ur robot has two scoops to hold the energy units. We also have a roof rack to launch the dinosaur across the mat. Additionally, we have an add-on to hold the energy units.鈥�

Watford Grammar School brought along two teams to the event and Team 1 were awarded the Judges 鈥業nvented For Life鈥� award which was given to a team who demonstrated values and skills in line with Bosch鈥檚 鈥業nvented for Life鈥� slogan. The team were rewarded for their intelligent and analytical approach to the challenges as well as their simple but effective design.

鈥淥ur robot has to do lots of different tasks, and it worked well. We used different attachments but lowered it down to one for simplicity鈥�

Watford Grammar鈥檚 second team did a great job at demonstrating the Core Values throughout the event. The judges noted that the team did well to not let challenges faze them and the whole team got involved in the coding of the robots.

鈥淥ur robot has different modular arms, so he is adaptable for different jobs. He likes chocolate.鈥�

Kemdroids: Solar were one of two teams entered from Kemsing Primary School in Kent and were commended by their judges for their confidence in their Innovation Project presentation and for identifying how the everyday activity of watching TV can become more sustainable.

鈥淥ur robot looks very square if you don鈥檛 have all our attachments on and we need them to do the missions easier.鈥�

The second team from Kemsing Primary School were the Kemdroids: Wind team who the judges thought did a great job at thinking through the design of their robot by planning their mission well and identifying limitations of their robot.

鈥淥ur robot has lots of different moving and attachable parts that make it solve the missions easier and we love her.鈥�