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The Galaxy Girls, a robotics team of fifth-graders from Solana Ranch Elementary School, competed at their long-awaited FIRST Lego League qualifying tournament on March 13. At the tournament that had been postponed since November due to the pandemic, the girls placed fourth out of 20 teams.
This year’s team members include Emily Cameron, Joanna Kim, Disha Ramachandran, Isla Vijayendran, Audrey Young and Phoebe Young. During the tournament, their robot scored 360 points out of their max potential of 385 points, a 94% capture rate.
The Galaxy Girls started meeting in mid-August 2020 and have spent the last seven months preparing for this season’s challenge, themed “Gamechangers”. During the unusual pandemic year, they met twice a week and had to get creative using Zoom, socially- distanced meetings and even used a staggered tag team approach for working on their robot. They used Minecraft to build their project model so they could work together but remotely as a team.