Photos: Kids with LEGOs square off at robotics competition
With their own personalized LEGO robots at hand, kids from across the borough met at Brooklyn Public Library’s central branch on Saturday to participate in the final competition of a local robotics league.
For 12 weeks, kids and teens ranging in age from 9 to 17 met at 13 library branches across Brooklyn to learn the basics of robotics as part of the Brooklyn Robotics League. Under the theme of ‘City Shaper,’ the young Brooklynites built hand-held robots out of LEGOs and used a block coding language to program them to accomplish drawn out missions in an urban environment.
The final competition brought eager participants from Sheepshead Bay to Bushwick to test their skills in tasks such as clearing scaled-down traffic jams, activating elevators and building various city elements.