cAtholic schools
tvc.dsj.org | December 13, 2016
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Saint Lucy School Bolt Bots Move on to Regional Competition
We are thrilled to announce that the
Saint Lucy School Lego Robotics team,
Bolts Bots 1.0, is one of 4 schools to advance to the regional level of First Lego
League Competition. Saint Lucy School
had three teams in this year’s First Lego
League Competition. The Saint Lucy
School teams are called Bolt Bots 1.0
(seventh and eighth graders) and Bolt
Bots 2.0 (sixth graders) and Bolt Bots 3.0
(fifth graders).
The students learn about the fun and
excitement of science and technology,
while creating exciting missions to be
completed by a robot that the children
design, build and program themselves.
Each year the competition has a different theme – this year’s theme is called
“Animal Allies.” The focus of this year’s
mission is to encourage the children to
think of new, or improve existing solutions to human/animal interactions.
The challenge is to identify a problem,
design a solution and then share findings with people.
Bolt Bots 1.0 chose bats as their
animal. The team wanted to show that
STEM-Based Robots Come to
Saint Frances Cabrini School
Saint Frances Cabrini School (SFC)
partnered with UBTECH, a robotics
manufacturing company, to enable
students to build 50 JIMU robots for a
segment of “Good Morning America”
that aired on November 28.
Students in grades 5-8 worked in
teams to help build the JIMU Robots,
and in exchange, UBTECH donated
the robots to Saint Frances Cabrini for
instructional use in the classrooms. The
robots consist of an interact