Multiple Robotics Teams from Short Hills will participate in the First Lego League State Final on Dec. 14, after coming up big at the Bridgewater-Raritan Brik Rampage last month. Submitted by Varianny Kapur.
Three robotics teams from Short Hills triumphed at the Bridgewater-Raritan Brik Rampage, the region’s qualifying competition for FIRST Lego League, on Nov. 23. Twenty-two teams from the area competed at the event, themed “Nature’s Fury,” in hopes of advancing to the FLL state finals on December 14.
The MonsterBots team, comprised of Deerfield Elementary School fifth graders Sheen Patel, William Qin and Sachin Sahay, fourth graders Sophia Klymchuk and Ishaan Salhotra, and third grader Andrew Overdeck, won the “Champion Award” for earning top scores in all four categories of judging. This included the “robot game,” where their robot had to perform tasks such as moving small Lego vehicles to specific positions on the table. They were also judged on in-depth face-to-face interviews about robot design, their community project, and their core values working as a team.
Teams have to score in the top 40% in all four categories to advance to the state finals.
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