This year, from June 15th to June 19th and June 22nd to June 25th, Team Neutrino held the 3rd annual youth summer camps for 4-5th and 6-8th graders to participate in a mock FIRST LEGO League (FLL) season. Through FLL Blastoff, we inspire kids to join the thriving FLL community in Ames and pursue STEM in the future. Members of Team Neutrino spent countless hours planning and preparing for FLL Blastoff, even through the intensive build and competition seasons. We also dedicated our Outreach Camp to train camp leaders and volunteers, ensuring a well-executed camp where students are able to learn how to build and codea LEGO Spike Prime robot to complete missions.
This year, we chose the 2023 FLL game, Super Powered, challenging campers to complete various missions with their robot such as turning a LEGO windmill and moving a LEGO dinosaur. The campers loved the dinosaur mission, which gave students an opportunity to use their imaginations to come up with unique ways to push the dinosaur across the field! On the final day, we ran 4-6 actual matches, giving the campers an opportunity to see their hard work in action during a mock FLL competition.
We can’t wait for the next FLL season this fall!