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St. Anne's Students compete and win honors at LEGO League Power Puzzle Challenge
Photo above: Team Lightning won the Most Colorful Award. Another team, the Energizers, won the Teamwork Award for their project featuring a wind turbine that powered a recycling plant.
The Lego Stacks won the Most Artistic Award for their model of St. Anne’s Episcopal School with Solar Panels.
The Flying Legos received the "Originality" award. Their project was a windmill-powered refrigerator.
February 3, 2008, Middletown, DE
Many lower school students at St. Anne's Episcopal School are in the school's LEGO League. Recently, they participated in the Junior First LEGO League Power Puzzle Challenge.
This year’s Lego League challenge was to explore how energy production and consumption choices affect the planet and our quality of life today, tomorrow, and for future generations.
The goal of the Junior First LEGO League is to provide an experience that will capture young children's inherent curiosity and creativity and direct it toward discovering the possibilities of improving the world around them through understanding, thought, planning, and technology.
St. Anne’s Episcopal students eagerly rose the challenge with no less than six teams eager to participate.
“Our students and parents were both enthusiastic and creative. They made it easy to coordinate this event," said coach and parent Wendy Hassiepen. "The students were proud of their accomplishments and coaches were most impressed by the ability of the children to articulate the details of the project. The kids liked that they were able to build new friendships while building legos."
Jack Hutchinson, a member of the Flying Legos team, which built a Flying Refrigerator, said “I loved playing off of my friends' ideas. We would all put our own spin on our project and work together.”
There were two events this year. St. Anne's Purple Dragons attended the first event took place on January 12 at the Barley Mill Plaza. The second event took place on January 19 at the Bob Carpenter Center. This event was attended by the following teams: The Energy Monsters, Team Lightning, Team Energizers, The Lego Stacks, and the Flying Legos. The Energy Monsters built a hydro-powered fish tank, and won an award for being the most gracious and professional.