Hi everyone, here's an update on just one of the many extra curricular activities that happen here in Sacred Heart SNS.
Our school was invited by Creative Hut Ireland (Creative Hut – Creative Hut Ireland) to take part in the First Lego League (FIRST LEGO League | Global STEM Program) tournament. This is a world wide Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM) tournament for children.
Amazon Ireland funded the Lego/robotics equipment & STEAM facilitators needed to take part in the tournament (AWS In Communities). STEAM facilitators, Niamh & Vince, from Creative Hut Ireland and Think Big Space South Dublin (Think Big South Dublin – Creative Hut Ireland) supported the children in building, assembling, designing and coding their Lego world and robot. The children met weekly for 10 weeks to work on their Lego World.
Throughout each week the children engaged in real-world problem-solving through coding, engineering, and research. Importantly the children were encouraged to show 'The FIRST Core Values' such as friendly sportsmanship, respect for others’ contributions, teamwork, learning, and community involvement. These values help the children to show a commitment to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of unity and working as part of a team.
On the day of the tournament the children brought their Lego creation to Amazon Headquarters and took part in competitions against other schools from around South Dublin. The children worked exceptionally hard as a team, encouraging each other as the weeks went on. They each brought something different to the team whether it was Lego building, designing and creating their team posters, building their robot, coding and testing their code and presenting their overall findings to a team of Lego League judges on competition day. The children were a credit to the school and the community and they should be very, very proud of how they worked together and their Lego League creations. Hopefully we will get to take part again next school year.
Please enjoy the photos and videos below and a small summary written by team member Jemimah Olowu from 6th class.
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Lego League by Jemimah Olowu, 6th Class.
Lego league was a wonderful experience, I really enjoyed it, especially since some of my friends were there too. My favourite was the coding because it was fun and interesting for me.
It was hosted in the amazon headquarters in Donnybrook, Dublin.
Our group name was pickle brick (WHICH I DID NOT AGREE ON BY THE WAY
https://vimeo.com/1183801294?fl=tl&fe=ec
Lego League by Jemimah Olowu, 6th Class.
Lego league was a wonderful experience, I really enjoyed it, especially since some of my friends were there too. My favourite was the coding because it was fun and interesting for me.
It was hosted in the amazon headquarters in Donnybrook, Dublin.
Our group name was pickle brick (WHICH I DID NOT AGREE ON BY THE WAY