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The SanLee Middle School Stallionss team took home the Championship Cup and the Best Overall plaque from the Central Carolina Community College Robotics Competition, held Nov. 20 at the college’s Lee County Campus. Pictured (from left) are team coach and SanLee science teacher Shannon Willaert; team members Jonah Elliott, Cameron Marks, Brandon Donathan, Stephen Cameron, Angel Reyes, Cameron Lane, Joseph Knight; and assistant coach Sarah Reed. Team members not pictured are David Perdrisat, Anthony Thompson and Devin Rudisill. The competition, co-sponsored by CCCC, Communities in Schools, and Lee County Schools, was a scrimmage in preparation for the FIRST Lego League Tournament and was conducted by FLL rules. West Lee and SanLee, in Sanford, and two teams from Anne Chestnutt Middle School, in Fayetteville, competed in the scrimmage and will compete in the official 2010 FLL Tournament. The scrimmage and tournament require teams of students to do a presentation on a biomedical problem and then build and program a Lego robot to perform various biomedical tasks, such as inserting a ‘stent’ in an ‘artery’ made of Legos.

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SanLee Middle School student Brandon Donathon (center) works with his team’s programmed Lego robot at Central Carolina Community College’s Nov. 20 Robotics Competition at the college’s Lee County Campus. Teammate Stephen Cameron (left) watches as competition judges John Dills (center, back), of Progress Energy, and Don Hon, principal test engineer for EMC Corporation, take notes. The competition, co-sponsored by CCCC, Communities in Schools, and Lee County Schools, was a scrimmage in preparation for the FIRST Lego League Tournament and was conducted by FLL rules. West Lee and SanLee, in Sanford, and two teams from Anne Chestnutt Middle School, in Fayetteville, competed in the scrimmage and will compete in the official 2010 FLL Tournament. The scrimmage and tournament require teams of students to do a presentation on a biomedical problem and then build and program a Lego robot to perform various biomedical tasks, such as inserting a ‘stent’ in an ‘artery’ made of Legos.

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West Lee Middle School Pride team members smile as they hold up their plaque for Best Design at the Nov. 20 Central Carolina Community College Robotics Competition at the college’s Lee County Campus. Pictured (from left) are Griffin Belknap, Joseph Wilkins, Denis Vielman, Jacob Marshburn (front), Erin Vallancourt, and Rebekah Larsen. Team members not pictured are Tiffany Vielman, Patrick Yarnell, Gavyn Hatley, and Jonathan Payares. The competition, co-sponsored by CCCC, Communities in Schools, and Lee County Schools, was a scrimmage in preparation for the FIRST Lego League Tournament and was conducted by FLL rules. West Lee and SanLee, in Sanford, and two teams from Anne Chestnutt Middle School, in Fayetteville, competed in the scrimmage and will compete in the official 2010 FLL Tournament. The scrimmage and tournament require teams of students to do a presentation on a biomedical problem and then build and program a Lego robot to perform various biomedical tasks, such as inserting a ‘stent’ in an ‘artery’ made of Legos.

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Denis Vielman (left), of West lee Middle School’s Pride team, controls the team’s Lego robot while teammate Jacob Marshburn (right) encourages him during the Nov. 20 Central Carolina Community College Robotics Competition at the college’s Lee County Campus. Observing the action is the competition’s lead judge Don Hon (standing, center), principal test engineer for EMC Corporation. The West Lee team won the Best Design Award for its robot. The competition, co-sponsored by CCCC, Communities in Schools, and Lee County Schools, was a scrimmage in preparation for the FIRST Lego League Tournament and was conducted by FLL rules. West Lee and SanLee, in Sanford, and two teams from Anne Chestnutt Middle School, in Fayetteville, competed in the scrimmage and will compete in the official 2010 FLL Tournament. The scrimmage and tournament require teams of students to do a presentation on a biomedical problem and then build and program a Lego robot to perform various biomedical tasks, such as inserting a ‘stent’ in an ‘artery’ made of Legos.