FIRST LEGO League

FIRST LEGO League Challenge

This year, we have three Vermont Secondary College teams participating in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge.  

In addition, we are hosting our very first Regional Tournament on Saturday 14th November.  We need volunteers to make this incredible experience possible.  If you are willing to be a judge (Engineers, Scientists, Programmers, Designers, R&D specialists we are looking at you!), a volunteer to direct our guests through the school, MCs, timekeepers, coordinators, table supervisors, score keepers – the roles are so varied, we’d love to hear from you!  

Please email Chris.Paragreen@education.vic.gov.au if it’s possible to give us some of your time on this day.  We would be so grateful for any time you are able to give us.

Vermont teams (comprising a mix of Year 7, 8 and 9 students) are meeting twice a week to work on the challenge ‘BioGlow’. 

As part of the challenge, they have been investigating potential areas to create innovative solutions in the field of biodiversity, including consulting experts in the field, whilst building and coding robots to complete various missions as part of their ‘robot game’. Along the way, they need to document their robot design process and demonstrate core values in everything they do, including Discovery, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, Teamwork, and FUN!

If you have any experience in the field of Biodiversity and willing to talk to our students about your expertise, please let us know.  They would love to get information from experts to help them design a practical and innovative solution to a real-world problem.  If this is you, we’d love to hear from you (either in person or virtually) 

Please email Chris.Paragreen@education.vic.gov.au so we can coordinate a suitable time.

Our teams participated in a full FLL intensive workshop day this week at KIOSC (Swinburne University), and you can see them in action in the photos below.All the best to our three teams

• Unbreakable 3310

• Mountain Ash

• Flaming Pheonix