Saturday, December 08, 2007

Lego Tournament

We had the Lego tournament last Saturday. It was an incredibly hectic weekend, mixing together the tournament, a funeral, a birthday party and a snowstorm.

Anyway, here is Koleman's team with the three coaches.



Koleman missed most of the early part of the tournament, but was able to run the robot in the head to head competition. Here he and Luke get ready.



Koleman wills the robot to knock down the panel of the solar powered satellite!



They won that round, (which was technically the second round, since their first opponent was a team called "Bye" who didn't show up) and advanced to the semifinals. This time Koleman had Maddie with him.



It was a good news / bad news run. They scored the most points that the team had gotten all day, but the other team had a great performance, so they didn't get to the championship round.

On the whole, they did great. For a bunch of fourth grade first timers, they made a very good showing. The top three (out of 15) teams advanced to state, and Koleman's team finished 5th, about a quarter of one percent away from third place.
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