RoboStorm with WGIL's Terry Cavanaugh
The Knox County 4-H Lego League Robotics team has garnered a champion’s award for the third year in a row.
The team of 9-14 year olds, named RoboStorm took home 5th place and punched their ticket to Champaign for the state competition in January.
Competitions consist of a field with Legos and there’s a required task for the teams to program their robot to do autonomously.
There are an additional four categories teams are judged on; team work, design, table running and project, a presentation based on the years theme.
The theme this year:Trash Trek.
Team member, Caleb Plattner who helps with programming tells Galesburg’s Evening News on WGIL there are still tweaks to make before state.
“I’d like to increase the consistency of the robot, because right now it’s kind of iffy sometimes,” Plattner says. “I think the skid is really good and the design is really good as well.”
Coach Mike Betts says the competition comes down to ingenuity the kids put in.
“The brick itself is all the same for everybody and that’s where the program goes in, but they really come up with some unique ideas,” Betts says.
Betts says that each team member knows how to do all aspects but kids typically end up in specializing.
