A Vietnamese student team from Wellspring School in Hanoi has won the Innovative Poster Award of the First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expo, part of the three-day 2018 First Lego League event held in Houston, the US, which wrapped up on April 21.
Vietnamese students from Hanoi’s Wellspring School won the Innovative Poster Award at the First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expo, part of the three-day 2018 First Lego League event held in Houston. (Photo: dantri.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - A Vietnamese studentteam from Wellspring School in Hanoi haswon the Innovative Poster Award of the First Lego League Jr. World FestivalExpo, part of the three-day 2018 First Lego League event held in Houston, the US,which wrapped up on April 21.
The competition offers four top InnovativeAwards, one in each category of Poster, Model, Programming and Research. Thisyear is the first time Vietnam has sent representatives to thecompetition.
The Innovative Poster Award this year was givento three teams: Team 14537, Wellspring of Vietnam; Team 6007, the Water Saviorsof Tampa, Fla. and Team 9808, the Sea Mustangs of Sugar Land, Texas.
First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expointroduces children ages 6 to 9 to the world of science and technology. In thisyear’s Challenge, AQUA ADVENTURESM, 16,767 teams used Lego elementsand Lego Education WeDo 2.0 to build and programme a moving model, and thenshare their discoveries about where water comes from and what happens on itsway to people.
Team 12102, the student teamof HCM City’s Le Ngoc Han-Lac Long Quan Primary School, reportedlywon the Model Design Awards at the expo. Team 14536, the student team from HaiBa Trung Primary School, won the Building and Discovery Award. The WesternAustralian International School of HCM City also attended the First Lego LeagueWorld Festival but did not win any awards.
The four Vietnamese teams beat almost 200 teamsfrom 120 schools nationwide at the First Lego League Vietnam 2018, which tookplace in HCM City on January 27-28.
First Lego League introduces students aged 9-16to real-world engineering challenges by inviting them to conduct researchprojects and build Lego-based autonomous robots to complete tasks on a thematicplaying surface. This year’s challenge, HYDRO DYNAMICSSM, taskedmore than 280,000 students on 35,226 teams representing nearly 90 countrieswith improving the human water cycle.-VNA
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Vietnamese students from Hanoi’s Wellspring School won the Innovative Poster Award at the First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expo, part of the three-day 2018 First Lego League event held in Houston. (Photo: dantri.com.vn) 
