Lego League

During the 2nd spring half term, two small groups of children from Year 5 and 6 worked tirelessly of their First Lego League project in order to demonstrate their STEM skills to compete against a range of other schools from around the North East.  

The theme for this Year’s event was called ‘Submerged’ which was about innovating new ways to support sea life. Within the project, the children had to make a Lego robot and program it to complete a series of tasks, in order to score points over a two-and-a-half-minute time period. Throughout the day, the children showed great resilience to improve their scores to post competitive scores.  

In addition to this element of the competition, the children also had to produce a presentation related to how to make the theme of sea life. As part of the presentation, the children had to create a protype for their idea, research it and share their project with different people. They then had to deliver their presentation to a panel of experts, who would judge and score their projects.  

Both teams decided to try to tackle pollution. The Year 5 team decided they would base their project on AI and designed and trained a program using Teachable Machines to be able to identify what is and isn’t sea life so that a robot could be used to get filter out litter for the ocean.  

The Year 6 team decided to base their project on tackling plastic pollution. To do this, they researched how to make biodegradable plastic using cornflower, vinegar, glycerine and water and produced various prototypes.   

The children had a brilliant day showcasing their learning and competing against the other schools and despite not winning, they learnt a variety of different skills and developed their confidence.