Jordan-Elbridge Dynamic Intermediate School students participated in the regional First Lego League challenge on Jan. 28 at Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, where they won the “Rising All-Star Award!”

JEDIS students receive “Rising All-Star” Award at recent First Lego League competition.

“They all did amazing and we are so very proud of the team for accomplishing their Innovation Projects and competing in the Robot Game,” said Lego League coach and teacher Brooke Ritter.

There are two components to Lego League: missions and the competition. For the missions, students created, programmed, and coded robots to complete challenges such as pushing a button on another Lego-built piece to set off a chain reaction. All the missions were set up on a big table, and once completed, students had three, two-and-a-half minute opportunities to get their robots through as many missions as possible.

When it comes to the competition, students were tasked with creating an innovative project that incorporates an energy saving idea, and presenting it to a panel of judges. This year’s competition theme was “Super Charged.” Students were asked to come up with something that would help change the use of energy in the community or our school, with the hopes of getting students thinking about alternative, renewable energy sources. Students worked in small groups, and each group came up with their own idea for the competition.

The best regional teams from the January competition will move on to the state competition, happening on Feb. 18 in Buffalo.