Lustre Competes At State Lego Robotics Event

The results were not in at this writing but when the Lustre Lions elementary age team visited Montana State University last Saturday, five months of hard work boiled down to intense twoand-a-half-minute rounds of robotic action.

Pitted against 35 other teams from around the state at the FIRST Lego League finals tournament, the five team members unleashed their energy-themed creation made of advanced, motorized Lego pieces and programmed with a basic coding language that introduces students to computer science. The robots complete preassigned missions such as unloading and moving pieces of cargo, and teams are also evaluated on their presentation and spirit of teamwork by a panel of judges.

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