Lego League

[Katie Reynolds]

I tried to start a Lego League team at a local middle school last year - but the school spent the $300 they were going to give me to start a team on an Ellison Machine (ya know the thing that cuts out letters and shapes? Yeah.) Then I was going to try and start one this year at the school... Our team got permission from the middle school principal to do a FIRST and Lego League demo someitme after school - then, a day before the presentation, I found at that someone had already made plans (and had 20 kids interested) for starting two teams already! The principal either forgot to mention this or something and yeah... the demo didn't go over so well. We got a lot of kids that were interested in FIRST , but those who were interested in Lego League didn't come to the meeting (cause I guess they already had teams). So, yeah, we're still trying to set up some Lego League teams by our team... but it's just not working Two years ago, some students on our team heped mentor three lego league teams at two elementary schools (but now all those kids are at the middle school!!) Oh well. We'll see how things go. I guess a letter cutting machine is way more important than an educational program. Heh.

BUT we do help out at one of our regional Lego League tournaments here in Wisconsin and we hold the State Tournament at our High School - So that's always a fun time. Students from our team help reset the fields, help in the pits, and are runners. We also sell food at both the Regional and State events and make T-shirts to sell at the State competition to help raise money for our team. The competitions are always a good time

- Katie