Iowa FIRST LEGO League Championship has kids thinking like biomedical engineers
Hundreds of Iowa 9- to 14-year-olds have been working for months to get their LEGO robots to perform simulations of challenges faced by biomedical engineers. The students will show off their...
View ArticleEngineering students discuss effort to plan, execute state LEGO robot...
A LEGO contest may seem trivial to an outsider, but for the 72 teams of 9-to-14-year-old students involved in Saturday’s FIRST LEGO League State Competition, building a robot that can complete an...
View ArticleLocal Girl Scouts gain national attention for creating working prosthesis
The Flying Monkeys, a team of Cadette Girl Scouts from Ames and Gilbert, won first place in the “Innovative Solution,” category at Iowa’s FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Championship, and their impressive work...
View ArticleIowa FLL team makes strong impression at Prometheus Awards
The award-winning Iowa FIRST LEGO League team the Flying Monkeys recently gave a presentation at the Prometheus Awards about their BOB-1 hand device. The Prometheus Awards are Iowa’s largest and most...
View ArticleCollege of Engineering awards scholarships to Flying Monkeys
The Flying Monkeys, a group of Girl Scouts and FIRST LEGO League Team from Ames, Iowa, who developed a prosthetic hand device to help a three-year-old toddler without fingers write, received another...
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Iowa FLL Tek-Konnekt team competes at international invitational
Photo courtesy of Chris Hoffman FIRST Lego League (FLL) team Tek-Konnekt from Muscatine, Iowa, recently competed in the 2015 FLL World Class Open Championship held at LEGOLAND in Carlsbad, California,...
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