Two of Iowa’s FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge teams advanced to the 2021 FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge Global Innovation Award finals held in June. The Global Innovation Challenge included participants from over 100 countries across all three FIRST® programs. The Iowa finalists advanced through multiple events to showcase and present their research and innovations to industry …Continue reading “Two Iowa teams advance to FIRST® LEGO® League Global Innovation Challenge Finals”
Strong mentors can have a lifelong impact and one industrial engineering student knows that well. Dagney Paskach grew up in Ames and has been surrounded by STEM influences for as long as she remembers. Her father, Thomas Paskach, graduated with his Ph.D. and B.S in chemical engineering from Iowa State University and currently serves as …Continue reading “IE student strives to get kids interested in STEM”
Hundreds of Iowa school students will show off their out-of-this-world research and robotics skills during the annual Iowa FIRST LEGO League State Championships Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 19 and 20.
AMES, Iowa – Students from across Iowa are preparing their teams and their LEGO® robots to help solve the world’s water problems. Their preparations are all part of this season’s Iowa FIRST LEGO® League State Championships Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 13 and 14, at Iowa State University’s College of Engineering. Both days will feature 60 teams of 9- …Continue reading “The Iowa FIRST LEGO® League State Championships: crowds, bright minds and robots”
Meet the Experts event brings together students and specialists to talk about this year’s “Animal Allies” theme In mid-September, 21 experts and 29 FIRST LEGO® League teams got together in the Zoo Plex at the Blank Park Zoo to talk share knowledge and make connections for the annual FIRST LEGO® League season. The season brings …Continue reading “FIRST LEGO® League participants develop ideas for research projects”
Each year, the Technology Association of Iowa celebrates and recognizes women who are innovators and leaders in science, technology, engineering and math. Camille Sloan Schroeder, who oversees the College of Engineering’s community outreach programs, was among the finalists for the Women of Innovation Award in the Diversity Champion category.
FIRST Lego League (FLL) team Tek-Konnekt from Muscatine, Iowa, recently competed in the 2015 FLL World Class Open Championship held at LEGOLAND in Carlsbad, California, in mid-May. The team was chosen to represent Iowa after its outstanding performance at the state championship that takes place annually at Iowa State University’s College of Engineering. FIRST is …Continue reading “Iowa FLL Tek-Konnekt team competes at international invitational”
Iowa middle school students worked together on January 17 for the FIRST LEGO League competition. Originally posted in the Iowa State Daily. Written by Dakota Carpenter.
A team of eight sixth and seventh graders is running for first place and $20,000 in the FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award competition. Iowa County 4-H team Robotic Raiders of Williamsburg, Iowa, designed an educational board game, called “Cyclone Survivors,” that teaches kids about tornadoes and tornado safety. They made it for the 2014 …Continue reading “Engineering fundamentals taught in local 4-H club and FIRST LEGO League competition”
Shaun VanWeelden, junior in software engineering, serves as vice president of outreach for Engineering Student Council and student chair of FIRST LEGO League (FLL). He also participates in outreach activities for several other campus groups. I knew I wanted to be an engineer at Iowa State after seeing students at the time doing really neat …Continue reading “Guest post: Outreach events show kids they have what it takes to be engineers”
From the LEGO key chains on his backpack to his involvement and dedication to the FIRST LEGO League, it’s clear that Shaun VanWeelden—a junior from Pella, Iowa—has a passion for the little plastic bricks that so often introduce young children to engineering. Last year, he found a way to combine that passion with his love …Continue reading “Junior in software engineering turns interest in LEGOs into business”
The team of middle schoolers didn’t know how to make an app. Neither did their teacher. But that didn’t stop them. And so, when the “Rubble Busters” from Maxwell show up for the Iowa FIRST LEGO League Championship on Saturday, Jan. 18, at Iowa State University’s College of Engineering, they’ll demonstrate a mobile app that …Continue reading “Hundreds of students to compete for Iowa FIRST LEGO League championship”
Teams of Iowa State University staff, students and alumni from across the state have joined forces to coordinate FIRST® LEGO® League Iowa. FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is an international program, created by FIRST and LEGO, designed to get children interested in and excited about science, technology and engineering. Every year, FIRST releases a new challenge that …Continue reading “FIRST LEGO League Iowa forges teamwork and leadership at Iowa State, local area communities”
It’s a big commitment. But Chris Rhinehart just can’t limit her school to one FIRST LEGO League team. “My kids love it,” said the sixth grade math, reading and enrichment teacher at BCLUW Middle School in Union. “That’s why I can’t do only one team.” And so there’s the sixth grade Super 7’s. There’s the seventh …Continue reading “Screaming students to cheer on their teams, robots at FIRST LEGO League Championship”
A small contingency of the Flying Monkeys, a group of Girl Scouts and FIRST LEGO League Team from Ames, Iowa, who developed a prosthetic hand device to help a three-year-old toddler without fingers write, are in Washington DC to represent the team at the White House Science Fair. The fair is being held on Tuesday, …Continue reading “Flying Monkeys at White House Science Fair”
