What an exciting day! WHW NXT Team Wins First Place!

Jeremy and Johnny were on one of the Homeschool Teams for this 2008 Lego Mindstorms Challenge. This is a 6 week competition and this year's theme was Natural Disasters: Rescue Robots. Their Professional level team competed in all areas: Table Display, Technical Notebook, Oral & Powerpoint presentation, Spirit and Sportsmanship and 5 senerios. Their team was made up of 13 students ages 9-12. The team split up into 5 subgroups and each worked on a different senerio or playing field. Our team used the Lego NXT Education Kit to compete. J3 and J4 worked on the Tornado senerio. They scored 700 on their first official run and then a complete 1000 points on their next run. They could keep the highest of the 2 runs... naturally 1000 points was terrific!!!  Then they went on to help their teammates with other senerios until time ran out. Happily, they won First Place in Notebook and Table Display! Also the Big First Place Throphy for the most points overall!!!

And to make the day even sweeter, the WHW RCX Team won 2nd place overall. Another Homeschool Team won 3rd place!   They learned a lot about programming, testing, building, teamwork... including Jeremy stepping in to do the oral presentation when a fellow team mate became ill.  And helping other subgroups progress in their senerios! They worked great together and had a great day with a surprising.... and exciting ending!  Perserverance is alive in these kids as they want to continue meeting to solve more of the other senerios!

Congrats WHW NXT TEAM!!!