FIRST® LEGO® League Regional Qualifying Tournament held at Tullahoma High School

The Regional Qualifying Tournament for the FIRST® LEGO® League of Middle Tennessee was held Dec. 5 at Tullahoma High School. Twenty-five teams across the region attended and 15 of them will go on to compete at the Regional FLL Tournament in February at Tennessee Tech University. College Street Elementary students Cole Fowler and Natalee Putman watch their robot perform its programmed tasks. The students’ coach Capt. Chance Johnson (back left), AEDC Commander Col. Rodney Todaro (back center), and AEDC STEM Educational Outreach Specialist Jere Matty (back right), look on as the competition judges take notes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Holly Fowler)

FIRST® LEGO® League Regional Qualifying Tournament held at Tullahoma High School

Published Dec. 21, 2015
By Deidre Ortiz
AEDC/PA

ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, TENN. -- The FIRST® LEGO® League of Middle Tennessee, sponsored by the AEDC Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Program, held its Regional Qualifying Tournament Dec. 5 at Tullahoma High School.
Hundreds of people gathered to watch and join in the qualifying tournament, an event officially sanctioned by FLL and backed by the Tullahoma Chapter of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers.
AEDC sponsored 21 of the FLL teams that attended this year's qualifying tournament. Six Junior FLL teams, and the FIRST® Tech Challenge Team Sharp, also sponsored by AEDC, were present at the tournament and had the opportunity to demonstrate their projects and robots.
Results from this tournament determined the teams that will be advancing to the next level, the regional tournament to be held at Tennessee Tech University in February.
The advancing teams are:
The Climbing Fish of Shelbyville
Robotic Tigers, Thomas Magnet School of Shelbyville
BrickCrafters of Murfreesboro
Legend of Legos, Central Middle School of Murfreesboro
Lego Legion, East Middle School of Tullahoma
Brick Dynasty, Murfreesboro
Knight Robotics, Riverside Christian Academy of Fayetteville
Robo Raiders, Coffee County Middle School of Manchester
Lego Warriors, Woodland Elementary of Bradyville
Legotronics, Harris Middle School of Shelbyville
Rossman Universal Robots, North Middle School of Winchester
New Union Rebels, New Union Elementary of Manchester
Algood Techies, Algood Middle School of Algood
South Middle School, South Middle School of Cowan
REL Lego Lions, Robert E. Lee Elementary of Tullahoma

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