Sanjay and Arvind Seshan, students at Fox Chapel Area High School and Dorseyville Middle School, were named champions at the FIRST LEGO World
Festival held in Detroit. Inset: The Seshan brothers at a 2017 Maker Faire.
SESHAN BROTHERS WIN INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITION
Share Passion for Robotics with the Community & World
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Since then, their passion for robotics has led
them to compete at FIRST LEGO League
tournaments, where each team of
students, ages 9-16, design, build,
and program a robot using LEGO
MINDSTORMS technology,
then compete on a table-top
playing field. FIRST is an
acronym – For Inspiration
and Recognition of Science
and Technology. The
Seshan brothers
won awards at local
competitions each of
seven years and have
represented Pennsylvania
at international
competitions five times.
For the 2017 FIRST LEGO
t was love at first sight… Sanjay and
Arvind Seshan were introduced
to LEGO ® MINDSTORMS ®
robots at a Carnegie Science
Center summer camp. Following
that first encounter, the two
brothers built a basic robot
from a kit and, from then
on, they designed and
built their own robots
from scratch. They
watched their initial
FIRST LEGO League
tournament in 2010
and formed a team the
next year with eight
other students. The two
brothers – then only six-
and eight-years-old – were
hooked!
Photo Courtesy Nanci Goldberg
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FOX CHAPEL AREA
Arvind Seshan presented a robotics
workshop at Volunteers of America/
All of Us Care in Sharpsburg.