FIRST® LEGO® League Valencia

The teams INVICTUS (Valencia) and TAULEGO (Torrent) have been the winners of the FIRST® LEGO® League Valencia, a playful competition focused on robotics and technology, organised by the Ingeniera Soy Association and the STEAM Chair of The Social Council of the Universitat Politècnica de València.

The event, held on Saturday, 22 February, on the Vera Campus of the UPV, brought together fifteen teams made up of one hundred and twenty children and young people aged between 6 and 16.

Each participant received a medal in recognition of their participation, and the two winning teams have been selected to participate in the Grand Final of the FIRST® LEGO® League Spain, to be held on 29 March in Ferrol (A Coruña).

Prizes were awarded in the following categories:

Robot Design Award, to the team EL VEDAT (Torrent)

Innovation Project Award, to the team MENTES TIC (Valencia)

FIRST Values Award, to the team TECHMATES (Valencia)

Promoting science

FIRST® LEGO® League is an international educational programme promoted by LEGO® Education and the FIRST® Foundation, which encourages technological vocations among students through learning experiences based on robotics and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) areas.

In Spain, the 19th FIRST® LEGO® League consists of 34 qualifying events, such as the one that has taken place in Valencia.

The organisers emphasise that this meeting has been possible thanks to the commitment of the volunteers, the collaborating entities, such as the Asociación Ingeniera Soy and the LEGO® Foundation, and the STEAM Chair, organiser of the event in Valencia.

The sea, the protagonist

Every year, FIRST® LEGO® League presents a challenge (inspired by a real-world area). In this edition, entitled 'SUBMERGED', the focus is on the oceans and the seabed.
Using creative thinking and LEGO® technology, each team has developed an innovation project over months and has designed and programmed a LEGO® robot.

In addition to approaching science and technology, the initiative has allowed them to develop learning habits, values and teamwork skills.

From the Social Council of the UPV, they value this event as 'a new success for the STEAM Chair and, especially, its trustees, ‘nearly 40 companies and institutions firmly committed to the Chair, whom we must thank for their continuous support and their strong dedication to the promotion of these disciplines and values among young people’.

More information:

http://www.steam.upv.es/

https://www.instagram.com/steam_upv

https://es.linkedin.com/company/consejo-social-upv

Video summary of the day, on YouTube