OSC, first SL school to participate in Global FIRST LEGO League Challenge

The Overseas School of Colombo has attained yet another milestone as the First Sri Lankan School to Participate in the Global FIRST LEGO League Challenge. The team is made complete by Eesa, Tyler, Finn, Reuban and Lynden who concur they had a blast, along with a life changing, learning experience by putting their skillsets, sense of teamwork, knowledge and innovative acuity to the test. The young team utilised modern advents of technology infused with innovative strategies to solve problems pertaining to sustainable energy sources. This year’s challenge was the theme ‘Sustainable Energy’.

The FIRST LEGO League Challenge is an internationally acclaimed competition, located in over 110 countries around the world, organised by FIRST for elementary and middle school students from ages 4 – 16. Each year in August, FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams are introduced to scientific and real-world challenges. The focus being to encourage youngsters to embrace and intertwine engineering, research, math, science and technology to help develop real-world problem-solving skills. FIRST designs the challenge sets for each year, in coalition with LEGO Education.