The Meeting Street Academy – Spartanburg robotics team won two first place awards in December at a FIRST LEGO League Challenge event hosted in Greer.
The FIRST LEGO League Challenge program is designed to engage students in research, problem solving, coding and engineering. The competition required a team to create and program one robot to complete as many missions as possible in less than three minutes. Teams were judged on their robot design and how many points they scored.
One of the Academy’s honors was the Champions Award, which celebrates a team that embraces FIRST’s core values while achieving excellence and innovation in robot performance and design. The other first-place award was for Robot Performance.
“This year’s team showed up and showed out!” Academy Assistant Principal Siobhan Ragan said. “They were solution seekers who truly valued what skills each teammate brought to the team. When missions were not being successfully completed, the team not only supported and encouraged the driver, but they were also relentless and ambitious to find a solution. We could not be prouder of their hard work and dedication. They represented what it means to be a Maverick.”
The team’s performance earned it a spot in the West Regional Tournament.
Congrats to the Mavericks!
