LCC Competes at State Lego Competition

LAUREL — Every year, First Lego League releases a new challenge based on a real-world, scientific theme. The theme for the ‘25-26’ competition year is entitled Unearthed, challenging students to solve real-world problems dealing with archaeology.

During the Unearthed season, our Lego League teams dive deep into the mysteries of the past to become tomorrow’s archaeologists uncovering hidden treasures, revealing forgotten stories and sharing history with the world in bold, new ways.

This season’s Unearthed robot challenge board contains 15 missions for Lego League teams to complete. Each team gets two minutes and 30 seconds to score as many points as they can by completing missions. To complete missions, both teams have been working hard to program the Lego robots they have built. Both teams have also created innovation projects to address the season’s problem challenge. The teams worked with Sam Matson, Superintendent at Ashfalls Fossil Beds in Royal, Nebraska.

Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Lego League teams (Lego-cy Hunters and Lego Diggers) competed with 96 other teams at the First Lego League State Competition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Friday and Saturday, March 20-21. Both teams performed well in the Innovation Contest held on Friday. On Saturday, Lego-cy Hunters earned a trophy for Robot Design, which is given to the top four teams in the category. Lego Diggers placed 60th in the Robot Game and Lego-cy Hunters earned the 15th place.