Franklin Monroe-Bots to compete at state
Staff report
Participating students this year are (from L to R) Eddie Heck, Jackson Crist, Brent Shofner, Ian Norris,Hunter Cottrell, and Chelsie Eyler. The Franklin Monroe-Bots are coached by Lisa Wendel and Brian Happy.
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PITSBURG Franklin Monroe’s First Lego League team, the Franklin Monroe-Bots, participated in the regional First Lego League Challenge competition against 19 other teams and qualified to move onto the state level competition.
The First Lego League Challenge competition is for students ages 9-16 that involves researching, problem solving, coding, and engineering . The students are given a topic area and must identify and design a real world problem and solution for the competition. The other component to the competition is that students must also build and program a Lego robot to navigate missions of a robot game.