After months of preparation, the Bayville Intermediate School’s Dust Devils robotics team ventured to Kings Park High School for the FIRST Lego League qualifying tournament on Feb. 22, taking home the Rising Star Award for their efforts.
Team members Elisabeth Casey, Alivia Chi, Madison Kilkenny and Scarlet Valderrama demonstrated their cooperation, ingenuity and teamwork under the tutelage of coach Fan Zhang, assistant robotics coordinator of the elementary schools, Dana Schultz and FIRST program coordinator Eva Papas. The Rising Star Award is given to teams showing immense growth, persistence and potential.
The girls’ robot maneuvered the field beautifully and presented the work on their project “Solving the Crisis of Unsorted Artifacts” to judges with clarity and confidence. The future is bright for these rising stars.