Robotics Club

Lego League Challenge

This year, the Robotics Club has seen a growth in student numbers with about 12 regular attending students during our weekly meet-ups.

With the growth in numbers comes the added initiative of attending robotics competitions. This year we are aiming to send our first ever team to theFirst Lego League Challenge. The challenge is open to students aged 8-16 years (as of 1 January 2021). This competition works by getting students to engage in research, problem-solving, coding and engineering – building and programming a LEGO robot that navigates the missions of a robot game. As part of Challenge, teams also participate in a research project to identify and solve a relevant real-world problem.

This competition will start in August when the challenge is released to all participating teams. Teams will build and code their robots up till the Regional Tournament in late October to early November (date TBA). This Tournament will take place on a Saturday or Sunday.

Interested in finding out what you’ll do as part of the challenge? Watch 2020’s challenge here and listen to previous participants’ feedback here. 

2020’s challenge: 

Participant feedback: 

The cost for participation and robot parts for the competition will be covered by the school.

Should you be interested in participating in this competition, please fill out this Google Form. Please note that your attendance at the weekly Thursday lunchtime robotics club is necessary and closer to the challenge, there will be weekly after school meets.

If you have friends/family who are interested in supporting our team either by sponsorships and/or coaching, do get in touch with 

Miss Leong:  (09931926@mgsc.vic.edu.au).

Elizabeth Leong

Robotics Club Coordinator/Science Teacher