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  • Youth Enrichment | FIRST LEGO LEAGUE Unearthed (Grades 2-4)

    FIRST LEGO League Unearthed (Grades 2-4) Instructor: Katie Davis, Shirley Hills Technology Specialist FIRST® LEGO® League introduces STEM to children through fun, hands-on challenges using LEGO® technology. Participants gain real-world problem-solving experiences through a guided, global robotics program, helping students, families, and educators build a better future together. Through three age-appropriate divisions, FIRST LEGO League inspires youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills and showcase what they learned. In the UNEARTHED™ challenge, FIRST LEGO League teams will uncover the past to discover the future. Join our archaeology-inspired robotics season. Every artifact we uncover holds a story. Each tool, each innovation, each work of art connects us to the people and ideas that came before us. Using STEM skills and teamwork, today we can dig deeper into discoveries than ever before. Welcome to FIRST® AGE™ presented by Qualcomm, our 2025-2026 robotics season inspired by archaeology. What will you uncover? Join us for an experience for the ages. Tuesdays, Sept 16 - Dec 16 (no class Tuesday, Nov 4 | Election Day) Shirley Hills Primary School | Media Center 3:40 - 4:40 pm #1378-A25F $265 (t-shirt included)
  • Youth Enrichment | Intro to Competitive Robotics

    Intro to Competitive Robotics Grades 5 - 7 Team Managers Nathan & Breana Norton Intro to Competitive Robotics is a program where students in Grades 5 - 7 design, build, program, and test an autonomous robot using LEGO Spike Prime robots to solve a set of missions. Students will learn how to research, problem-solve, code, and engineer throughout the program. Their creativity, ingenuity, and hard work will be presented at the regional tournament. The regional tournament is orchestrated using FIRST LEGO League Challenge, an international organization encouraging robotics in middle schoolers. (For more information on FIRST LEGO League, visit: www.firstlegoleague.org/about) At the tournament, students will be judged on a presentation highlighting a solution they researched and created to solve a real-world problem facing engineers today. They will also be judged on building and programming a LEGO robot that navigates through missions. The coaches will act as facilitators to guide the students and help build a robot, research solutions, and understand core values. Prior knowledge of robotics or programming is not required. Students will learn all skills throughout the program. Tournament Season: Weekly team meetings will occur at Westonka Middle School right after school. We will start meeting at the beginning of the school year and continue until the tournament. Coaches will coordinate with parents if more meetings are needed as the tournament time approaches. Attendance is important as our season progresses, as each student is integral to the team. Wednesdays, September 10 - Tournament Date (between late November and mid-December) No class October 15 Regional Tournament Date: TBD - Parents will be notified once the date has been confirmed 3:00 - 4:30 pm Westonka Middle School | STEM Room #1379-A24F $265 (includes a team t-shirt)