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Middle School Engineering/Robotics Students Enjoy Busy and Rewarding Year
This year, Dalton fielded five middle school robotics teams who competed in the FIRST Lego League challenge and the RoboCupJunior Soccer Championship. The biggest highlight of the year came when the Electric Eagles, a sixth grade FLL team, were selected as one of 20 semi-finalists for the Global Innovation Award and invited to the World Championships in St. Louis. The award is given to teams who present a creative solution to a question on one of today’s most relevant topics: the future of learning.
Four students represented the team at the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis from April 22 to 25, 2015. Nadim Abboud ‘21, Jordan Fox ‘21, Lana Wagner ‘21 and Juliana Yu ‘21 presented their iOS application, SocialQ. The app aims to improve the social knowledge of users with Aspergers Syndrome by using a ‘learning tree’ to determine users’ experiences and build upon what they already know. With video clips and a kid-friendly interface, SocialQ offers users interactive, incentive-based, and progressive learning about daily peer interaction and social cues.
Another sixth-grade team, the Plasma Penguins, qualified for the NYC Championships at Javits by scoring in the top five in robot performance at the Bronx tournament.
In RoboCupJunior Soccer, a team of eighth graders, Error 404, made it to the semi-final round of the high school division at the USA Championship which took place here in NYC last month. The two seventh grade teams, the Fighting Lobsters and Mainframe Meltdown, came in second and fourth place overall in the middle school division.
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