On Thursday, six Year 8 students joined Mrs McKinnell at Nissan for the First Lego League competition. The students competed in 4 rounds programming their robot to move around the board interacting with a wide range of ocean themed tasks. This year’s topic was ‘submerged’ and as part of the project the students were also required to create a presentation about an issue in the ocean.

The students chose to research the impacts on sea life; focusing on the death of turtles. The students were commended on their presentation skills, with the judge coming personally to see Mrs McKinnell to say how well they had performed and articulated themselves. Overall everyone had a fantastic day learning lots of new skills and improving upon their score by 100 points by the end of the day. Everyone is looking forward to the next theme.