LCC Middle School teams prepare for Lego League competition

COLERIDGE — Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Middle School students are taking part in the Lego League competition.

LCC Lego League coaches/sponsors are Alex McKamy and Laura Nordby.

The LCC Lego League teams will have their first competition on Saturday, Feb. 24, at South Sioux City. The teams will be competing in the Lego League State Championship in Lincoln on Friday and Saturday, March 15-16.

The theme for the first Lego League competition of 2024 is entitled ‘Masterpiece’, with a focus on the arts and integrating technology into the arts.

There are two Lego League teams at LCC middle school this year.

The team names are Board in Pair-a-Dice and Some Assembly Required. Lego League team members of Board in Pair-a-Dice members are: Foster Stone, Stella Graham, Caden Barnes, Reese Jelinek, Autumn Funk, Johnathan Dietz, Grant Brummels, Kylee Bloom, Aizlynn Kosler, and Rhett Egger.

Team members of Some Assembly Required are: Karson Brummels, James Recob, Trystan Sims, Nolan Nordby, Dakota Carter, Easton Gould, Liam Recob, Drake Jairam, and Jolynn Kinkaid.

Each year the Lego League teams must come up with an Innovation Project.

This year’s challenge was to increase participation in a hobby using art or technology.

For their Innovation Project, Board in Pair-a-Dice came up with the goal to increase participation in traditional board games by creating a Board Game Club at the Laurel-Concord-Coleridge School.

The club meets on the second Monday of each month and is open to students in grades K-12.

Group members are using graphic design elements and Canva to create flyers, Google forms to survey student interest and ask for teacher donations, and QR code monkey to create a QR code for sign up.

For their Innovation Project, Some Assembly Required came up with the goal to increase participation in model building and creating model kits with 3D printed kit cards that are paired with a movie so kids can build the model while watching the movie.

Group members are using graphic design elements and Canva to create posters and flyers, Google forms to survey student interest and ask for teacher donations, and our 3D printers to create kit cards. Both teams have been hard at work on the robot table.

“They both have similar robots and attachments, but it has been fun seeing how the teams approach the table and missions differently,” said LCC Middle School Principal Mark Leonard.

Leonard said he is appreciative of all of the support the program has received.

“Thank you to the board and the administration for their support and backing of this middle school program that has helped grow STEM learning and inspire future innovators here at our school,” Leonard said.