FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Expo

We are hosting a FIRST ® LEGO® League Explore Expo. There are roughly 18 teams from the Vestal School District and the Catholic Schools participating. This event is open to the public, so everyone is invited to come see what our area students have been working on!

Date: Saturday, February 22
Time: 9 a.m. – Noon
Location: SUNY Broome Student Center, Baldwin Gym

FIRST ® LEGO® League Explore is the middle of three divisions of FIRST LEGO League, created to inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through fun hands-on STEM learning and robotics.

All FIRST ® programs are built on a foundation of Core Values, celebrating discovery, impact, inclusion, innovation, teamwork and fun.

What have teams been doing?
In Explore, teams of students ages 6-10 focus on the fundamentals of engineering as they explore real-world problems, learn to design, and code, and create unique solutions made with LEGO bricks and powered by LEGO® Education SPIKE Essential.

Team Model and Team Poster:
Teams will showcase their work to everyone present by explaining all they have learned about the real-world problem they have investigated.

Reviewing:
The reviewers will visit each team to listen and ask questions about the models they have built and coded. The students will explain how their code makes their models move and talk about
what they have learned about working as a team.

Special Activities:
Students will take part in different STEM-related activities offered by faculty, students and staff from SUNY Broome, Binghamton University, Vestal High School and other community partners.

Celebration:
The event will end in an award ceremony where each student is celebrated for their amazing achievements. Confidence is boosted as the students receive recognition for their hard work.

Agenda:
9:00-10:30 – Welcome and Reviewing
10:30-11:30 – Special Activities
11:30-12:00 – Celebration

For more information on participating in the event, please reach out to Danielle Britton at brittondf@sunybroome.edu or 607-778-5203.

FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Expo (pdf)

Submitted by: Workforce Development