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Lego robotics competition fosters student learning, engagement at LFCDS

The Lightsavers team (left to right) Max Collins, Cameron Wacker and Gino Farrell programmed their robot to do eight missions in two to three minutes. Wacker resets the robot to run its course at the regional FIRST Lego League Robotics state qualifying competition Dec. 5 at Lake Forest Country Day School. Photos by Steve Handwerker/22nd Century Media
The Fast Thinking Girls team members (left to right) Holli Greenwald, Annalise Goodman, Kaylie Pasternak and Grace Listopad, of Mount Prospect, show off the Champions Award they won at the Lego competition.
Lake Forest Country Day School team The Pollution Solution, comprised of AJ Lee (left), Will Collins, Jake Putzel, Chloe Whelan and Emily Hawkins, run their robot through its paces.

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Megann Horstead, Staff Writer
1:42 pm PST December 14, 2015

Lake Forest Country Day School eighth-grade student Angelique Alexos has always been fascinated by robotics, but it wasn’t until she competed in last year’s FIRST Lego League robotics competition that she realized she wanted to make an impact on the world in ways that are larger than life.

“I definitely think this is something I would want to explore,” she said. “I really like having a theme and trying to determine how I can play a role in this theme.”

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