A TEAM of Lego fans have won a place in the national finals of a robotics competition for youngsters.
INOV8 Robotics won a regional heat of First Lego League robotics competition and will go one to the final, due to take place in Harrogate at the end of this month.
They also won the award for the highest score in the robot game section of the event.
The team is made up from seven Year Eight pupils, four of whom are from schools in Wokingham and Reading.
Simrat Basra from Bohunt Wokingham, Mehul Gupta from Reading Blue Coat School, Aarush Vardhan from Reading Boys and Jessica Widdicombe, from Kendrick School were joined by three pupils from Herschel Grammar School, Slough —Yuvraj Basra, Anvi Bhatkal, Arya Sujit Kaimal — to form the winning combination.
The FLL is run by the Institute of Engineering and Technology and aims to support STEM learning. The theme for the FLL tournament was Cargo Connect, which explores modern transportation.
Competitors take part in a project, the robot game, robot design, and are tested on core values such as teamwork and effort.
The team was organised into two groups, one concentrating on the project and the other concentrating on robot design, coding, and the build, all using Lego Mindstorms.
INOV8 Robotics has been active for a number of years. Members meet every weekend to discuss ideas, write code and build a robot designed to perform a set of tasks.
This isn’t the first time team INOV8 has won FLL’s regional competition. Several members of the current team were part of the group which saw off the opposition in January 2020.
