Inventure Academy students were at their creative best at the First Lego League Tournament 2010 and won the award for "Best Robot Design, a robot designing competition held at tech-major SAP Labs on Saturday 29th January.
‘Robomaniacs’ as they called themselves chose ‘Slipped disc' as their theme. The team comprised of three students from Inventure Academy namely Karan Buntval of Grade 5, Tejas Rao and Pranav Jai Singh of Grade 8.
The competition was open to children aged between 9-16 and work in teams which could have a maximum of ten members. The teams were given special kits by SAP Labs. The kits contained Lego bricks, programmable processors, sensors and motors using which a robot can be built to accomplish predefined missions and a specially designed mat on which all the action takes place.
Robomaniacs', had seven participants in the age group of 9-14. Karan Buntval, a 5th standard student of Inventure Academy, felt the tournament was an exciting opportunity to learn and have fun at the same time. "We were under no pressure and we had a lot of fun and it was exciting to work in a team and coordinate on different aspects of the project", he said.
Karan says that ‘Robomaniacs' used an ultrasonic, light and touch sensor, and 3 motors to build the robot. The sensors and the motors were all fixed in their position, but one motor was left to change the attachments for the different tasks. "Our robot was stable but slow, we are definitely looking forward to the next edition of FLL and we will improve our design", adds Karan.
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