10 OTA students participating in 3 teams moved into the next round at the Southern California First Lego League Championship Tournament this Saturday! The next round of the tournament will take place on on Sunday, December 2nd. Come out and support our teams.
- Representing Team Ospreys were: Ethan, Brian, RT, & Matthew.
- Representing the first all-girls robotics team for OTA as Team Major Pain were: Kiki, Maddy, Lupe & Zoe.
- And, competing on the Local Neighborhood Team were: Xavier & Asia.
In order to advance to the next level of competition, students had to compete in 2 separate areas:
(1) Designing, building and programming a semi-autonomous robot.
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(2) Researching and completing a FLL Project (identify a problem, develop an innovative solution, and share with others) as part of their presentation. All the while students are expected to follow and are also judged on the FLL Core Values:
- We are a team.
- We do the work to find solutions with guidance from our coaches and mentors (Jeff Major and Jon Doar).
- We know our coaches and mentors don’t have all the answers; we learn together.
- We honor the spirit of friendly competition.
- What we discover is more important than what we win.
- We share our experiences with others.
- We display Gracious Professionalism® and Coopertition® ( being cooperative in competition) in everything we do.
- We have FUN!
All in all, it was a huge success for OTA as our students increased their ranking from 25th-27th out of 30 teams in last year’s initial entry to 10th-12th place this year! More importantly I am so very proud of all of the students who chose to spend the nearly 30 extra hours after school, on weekends and their day of during our staff workday! All good things go to students who are willing to go above and beyond and these young Ospreys are shining examples of the what is possible with a little extra work!
— Jeff Major, OTA STEM DIrector
- Thank You to Kiwanis Club of San Diego for their generous support of OTA Robotics!
- OTA Robotics is: Programming, Problem-Solving, Applied Mathematics, & Engineering!