Heritage Middle School's Dancing Ducks Compete at 2012 FIRST LEGO League Championships
The team gathered four top-ten placements and took home a trophy for their work outside the competition.
The Heritage Middle School “Dancing Ducks” competed last Saturday in the 2012 Boston Scientific MN FIRST LEGO League State Championships in St. Paul. The Dancing Ducks placed seventh or higher in four out of five categories against 42 other Division 1 teams (grades 4, 5 and 6) from throughout the state. Logan Finkel, Bryson Halsey, Aiden Jacobs, Jacob Kinney and Peter Dean McKenzie—all fifth graders—competed with a robot they built, programmed and adapted to a series of competition scenarios. The team also completed a research project on food safety that they presented to judges. The team is coached by Susan Jerabek and Doug Kinney. “It was really good collaborative work,” said Jerabek. “As a team, they work really well together.” In …
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