Lego Mindstorms NXT Robotics Competition

 On Tuesday, April 26th, I took my Project Lead the Way (PLTW) students, along with my Globaloria Game Design students, to the 9th annual Lego NXT Mindstorms competition at Bridgemont Technical and Community College in Montgomery, WV. My PLTW students competed in the competition against other middle and high school students in the state. This is a great S.T.E.M. activity for students to participate in. I wanted my Globaloria Game Design Students to experience this activity in hopes that they may be interested in participating in the competition next year.

There were six different events: (1) Yellow Brick Road - the robot must follow a yellow winding road, (2) Over the River & Through the Woods - the robot must travel through an obstacle course, (3) A Good Day for Golf - the robot must collect six golf balls and place them in the hole in the middle of the table, (4) Sumo - the robots wrestle with each other to see who wins the match, (5) Anything Goes - The students program a robot that interacts with humans. 
Our students did well this year. They won 2nd and 3rd in Yellow Brick Road, 1st in Over the River & Through the Woods, 1st in A Good Day for Golf, & 2nd in Anything Goes.