{"id":3126,"date":"2022-01-10T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:19:29","slug":"congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-first-lego-league-challenge-canterbury-regional-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2022\/01\/10\/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-first-lego-league-challenge-canterbury-regional-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the winners of the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Canterbury Regional Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/kent.ac.uk\/computing\">\u00a0School of Computing<\/a> hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/\">FIRST LEGO League Challenge<\/a> Canterbury Regional Tournament last month, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theiet.org\/\">The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)<\/a>. Congratulations to the challenge winners, Kemsing Primary School, who will progress to the England and Wales National Final, taking place in February!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the winning team from Kemsing Primary School, the participants also included pupils from The Leigh Academy, Schools at Somerhill, Kent College and Simon Langton Girls.<\/p>\n<p>The participants competed in four challenges &#8211; Innovation Project, Core Values, Robot Design and Robot Game &#8211; which they developed with programmed robots while at school. The four challenges were judged by a School of Computing staff, and Student Ambassadors from both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the School of Computing assisted the teams throughout the day as they prepared for each challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The global STEM challenge for 9-16 year olds aims to inspire youth and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics. The LEGO League sees teams of young people competing against each other, to encourage an interest in real-world themes and develop key skills that are crucial for their future careers.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all who took part in the event!<\/p>\n<p>Further information about FIRST LEGO League is available here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/\">https:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3129\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0113.jpg\" alt=\"Lego league robot\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3128\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0140.jpg\" alt=\"Lego League robot\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image: two of the robots created by the teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0School of Computing hosted the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Canterbury Regional Tournament last month, in collaboration with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Congratulations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2022\/01\/10\/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-first-lego-league-challenge-canterbury-regional-tournament\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}