Are you smarter that a 5th grader????

After spending 2 Saturdays at the FLL tournament...Greg and I once again have realized that our kids are passing us by with their smarts!

Annie, along with a group of girls from her ELP class, developed a robot out of Lego's and competed it with other groups around the district! The theme this year was "Transportation" so the girls picked Cyber bullying as there focus! How does Cyber bullying have to do with transportation? It is transported by technology...who knew this was even an option, but the judges were very impressed with their research, report and presentation. They took first place out of 40 teams! The robot competion was the most fun! They have a track set up and you race your robot with the other teams robots. They have to complete tasks and obstacles for points! We had the most enthusiasm of all the teams and even had made up chants to cheer on "Sherlock Holmes." (That was the robots name) They have the best teacher...Mr Vonburg. He was having as much fun as the girls!

We went on to compete at the State Tournament held at ASU. We were by far the youngest team and soon realized what a big deal this is to some when we saw the sponsored teams. The girls had so much fun and what a great experience it was to have them present in front of judges, answer questions and compete against other kids.

We are proud of you Annie!