You see the pictures of the fun loving and quirky Google. And so is with very little surprise to find that they sponsored a Lego Robotics challenge.
…so we (Google) were honored last weekend to receive the “FIRST LEGO® League Outreach” award at the Northern California FLL championship tournament. FLL is a program encouraging fourth- to eighth-grade kids to study science and technology. Each fall, student teams (who compete at the local, national and international level) build autonomous LEGO® robots to tackle a set of challenge missions — and finish as many as they can in 2-½ minutes! This year’s challenge: called Nano Quest.
We hosted a couple of FLL meetings and put on our own Google Qualifying Tournament (beta) in December. We loved hosting these events — they are a great way to reach out to the community, and putting on the tournament was fun! We had a couple of dozen Google volunteers, several FLL volunteers, and 16 student teams — about 150 people in all. (The winning team from our Northern California region will go on to the World FLL Festival — 104 teams from 38 countries — to be held in April in Atlanta.)
I want more pictures. But over all I say cool for them… and wonder where the flickr feed is. Oh wait, this is Google… a Picaso Album.
Tags: Google, Interesting, Lego
