CCSD Robotics Teams Compete at State Contest

UPDATE 2/9: Congratulations to Dean Rusk Middle School’s teams on earning honors at the statewide First LEGO League robotics competition! The school’s Brick Army team won first place for Innovation Project, and the Brick Navy team earned fourth place for Robot Design. Congratulations to our students and their teacher coaches and thank you to our School Board for its laser focus on ensuring our students are learning more, growing more, and achieving more in our classrooms than they could anywhere else! 

Three Cherokee County School District teams are competing at the statewide First LEGO League robotics competition!

Congratulations to R.M. Moore ES STEM Academy’s Arrowheads team and Dean Rusk Middle School’s Brick Navy and Brick Army teams and best wishes as they compete at Georgia Tech this weekend for state honors.  

R.M. Moore ES STEM Academy’s Arrowheads earned the Champions trophy at regionals and first-place in robot design at super regionals on the team’s path to state.  Dean Rusk Middle School’s Brick Navy team won the regional and super regional Core Values award, and its Brick Army team earned the regional Robot Design award and super regional Core Values award. 

The R.M. Moore team is made up of: Captains Emma Cumbee and Griffin Donnelly and Beckham Bailey, Alexa Cainion, Sawyer DeBord, Lincoln Duignan, Elsie Grimm, Jess Lamb, Kempton Laporte, and Weston Scott.  The team’s coaches are teachers David Cornn, Lauren Donnelly, and Donna Lownes.

The Dean Rusk Brick Navy team is made up of: Agilan Poovendran Kumaresan, Ava Murray, Devadarshan Ramprabu, Anderson Smith, Liam Snider, Callie Tisdale, Leo Zaccagnino, and Mohamed Zafran.  The Brick Army team is made up of: Luke Buchanan, Ethan Lawson-Body, Kiya Patel, Shri Sanevelly, Abhijith Senthilraj, Mason Sherman, and Venezia Zaccagnino.  The teams’ coaches are teachers Teresa Hutto and Lauren Snider.

For First LEGO League competitions, elementary and middle school teams design and build a robot using the LEGO Mindstorms system.  The robot must solve specific missions on a tabletop playing field with models made from LEGO bricks.  Each team also completes a research project to analyze and solve a problem; this year’s theme was focused on ocean exploration and ecosystem conservation.  Trophies are given for four categories of competition: Robot Design, Core Values, Robot Performance and Project, with an overall Champions trophy for the event’s highest score.  

The regional and super regional competition were coordinated by Mill Creek MS teachers Mark Markley and Ryan Brumbelow.

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