LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Two teams of young Lake County robotics enthusiasts will take part in their first competition on Sunday.
Lake County's two FIRST LEGO Lego League Robotics teams, the Planeteers and Watts Up, will compete at the Intel R&D Campus in Folsom.
It’s a qualifying event for the district championship games, according to Barbara McIntyre, facility coordinator for the Taylor Observatory-Norton Planetarium, who is a league coach along with Michael Schenck and Stephen Stangland.
The teams, which meet at the observatory, have been working on the challenge, “Senior Solutions.”
That challenge has required each team to interview senior citizens and identify problems they face, and research solutions to those problems. They will present their solutions at the tournaments.
In addition to having their solutions judged, they also will be scored on the competition’s “core values,” which are “Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition.”
It’s estimated that approximately 205,000 children participating in 20,500 teams from over 60 countries will participate in the FIRST Lego League during the 2012-13 school year.