Applications are now being accepted for University of Southern Indiana’s Southwest Indiana STEM (SwiSTEM) Resource Center’s 2015 USI FIRST® LEGO® League Qualifying Tournament. Applications will be accepted from October 6-12. The competition will take place Saturday, November 7, in Carter Hall at USI, where participating teams will be competing for a spot in the Indiana Championship Tournament. With a capacity of only 16 teams, don’t miss your chance to participate!
This year’s First® LEGO® League (FLL) Challenge involves all things trash. Teams will be on a Trash Trek SM to discover the hidden world of trash. From collection and sorting, to smart production and reuse, there is more to your trash than meets the eye. Participating teams will be challenged to rethink the way they look at trash by creating innovative ways to make less trash or improving the way people handle the trash they make. Whatever an individual may see as trash, FLL wants competitors to see as an opportunity.
FIRST® LEGO® League is a robotics program designed to get children excited about science and technology while teaching them valuable employment and life skills. Teams, composed of up to 10 children with at least one adult coach, can also be associated with a pre-existing club or organization, be homeschooled, or just be a group of friends.
Check out the FLL YouTube page for information from FLL game designer and project manager. The deadline to apply is October 12. To apply, visit: https://my.usfirst.org/fll/tims/site.lasso
For more information contact Allison Grabert, SwiSTEM Resource Center director, at afgrabert@usi.edu or 812-228-5019.
