2024 - 2025 MySTEM Academy FIRST Lego League Teams

 
FLL Robotics Team Infinite Loop won the First Place Robot Design Award at the Florida Sunshine Invitational Daytona Beach on 6/22/2024 after getting the Champion's Award at both the Western PA Championship on 12/02/24 and PA State on 03/09/24.
 
The middle school robotics team Nifty Ninjas was a finalist for the Robot Design Award at the Western Edge Open in Long Beach, CA on 6/2/24 after competing against 80 International Teams from different countries.
 
Team Gold and Black Impackt got the Engineering Excellence Award in the American Robotics Open in New Jersey on 05/18/24 and were also a finalist for the Alliance Game.
 
FLL Robotics Team 412 Power Crew got the prestigious Champions Award in Western PA on 12/02/24, and participated in the American Robotics Open in New Jersey on 05/18/24. 
 

Gold & Black ImPACKt

Infinite Loop

412 Power Crew

Nifty Ninjas

YINZ GIRLZ FLL TEAM WINS SECOND PLACE CHAMPIONS AWARD

AT THE INTERNATIONAL ARKANSAS RAZORBACK - APRIL 2023

 

The middle school robotics team YinzGirlz, hosted by MySTEM Academy, won the Champion's Award in the FIRST Lego League Razorback Open Invitational from May 18 to 21 at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. They competed against 80 International Teams and proudly represented Western PA, USA.


Using advanced proportional control coding and sensors to improve navigation accuracy and alignment techniques, they built a robot to solve all the missions on the 2023 FLL Super Powered Challenge season.  Yinz Girlz applied for a pattent on energy harvesting from dog walking for their innovation project.They also spent 20-40 hours working to spread STEM knowledge to several communities in the Pittsburgh area. Congratulations, Viana Chopra, Piya Dargan,  Kaya Gandhi, Seoni Gandhi, Shamita Panat, Olivia Romanow, and Keerthana Visveish.

INFINITE LOOP WINS SECOND PLACE ROBOT DESIGN AWARD AT THE WPI FIRST LEGO LEAGUE US OPEN - MAY 2023 Worcester Massachusetts

 

FLL Robotics Team Infinite Loop, hosted by MySTEM Academy, participated in the Waffle FIRST Lego League US Open Event with 75 teams worldwide at WPI in Worcester, Massachusetts.They won one of the prestigious Robot Design Awards and proudly represented Southwest PA in this International Event. They solved all the 2023 FLL Super Powered Challenge season missions by building a compact robot and programming it with advanced codings, such as path correction, stall detection, and proportional control using color and gyro sensors.Their Infinite Precision Speed Robot can quickly and accurately position anywhere in the field using mechanical guiders and combinations of gears to balance speed and power. Congratulations, Jesse Guo, Aayush Iyer, Nathan Leckey, Aarush Patil, Kiran Thosani, Shalin Thosani, Victor Zhang, and Vivian Zhang.

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

FLL is an international program created by inventor Dean Kamen to promote science, technology, engineering, and math among children ages 9-14. FLL events consist of ​3 components:

  • A ​robot game, where team members build and program LEGO robots to ​solve various missions;
  • A ​project, where they research a problem of their choice related to the year​'s​ theme​;
  • Core Values, where they learn to work as a team and to compete in a spirit of friendly "coopertition."​

​FLL is meant as an opportunity for children to learn science and technology, teamwork, project management, decision-making, and other important tools they'll need to succeed in the professional world. MySTEM Academy focuses on mentoring the children to succeed, not on winning a​n award. Winning is a consequence of how much effort the children invest in solving the ​robot game, conducting and presenting the ​project, and practicing core values.

  YEAR   FLL Theme   MySTEM Academy Awards
  2024   Masterpiece   Infinite Loop: First Place Champion's Award and First Place Robot Design Award at the Florida Sunshine Invitational Daytona Beach on 6/22/2024
  2024   Masterpiece   Power Crew: Second Place Champion's Award
  2024   Masterpiece   Gold & Black: 2nd Core Values, 6th place Champion's Award, Engineering Excellence Award at the American Open in New Jersey on 05/18/2024
  2024   Masterpiece   Nifty Ninjas: First Place Innovation Project, 7th place Champion's Award, Finalist in Robot Design Award at the Western Open Edge in Long Beach, CA on 06/02/2024
  2023   Super Powered   YinzGirlz: Second Place Champion's Award at the International Arkansas Razorback
  2023   Super Powered   Infinite Loop: Second Place Robot Design Award at the WPI FLL US Open
  2023   Super Powered   Nifty Ninjas: 2nd in Robot Game and 2nd in Robot Design at the Southwest PA FLL
  2023   Super Powered   Power Crew: First Place Award in Robot Design at the Southwest PA FLL
  2023   Super Powered   Three Rivers Robotics:  Third Place Award in Robot Design at the Southwest PA FLL
  2022   Cargo Connect   SportSTEAM: First Place Design Award at the International Arkansas Razorback
  2022   Cargo Connect   YinzGirlz: First Place Core Values Award at the World Festival in Houston
  2021   Cargo Connect   Yinz Girlz: Champions Award, 5th in Robot Game
  2021   Cargo Connect   SportSTEAM: Second Champions Award. 1st in Robot Game
  2021   Cargo Connect   Infinite Loop: 2nd in Robot Game and 3rd in Robot Design and Programming
  2021   Cargo Connect   Team BOT: 3rd in Robot Game and 2nd in Robot Design and Programming
  2021   Cargo Connect   3 Rivers Robotics: 4th in Robot Game and 1st in Robot Design and Programming
  2020   RePLAY   NextGen: 1st Champions Award, 1st Robot Game, Global Innovation Project Award
  2020   RePLAY   SportSTEAM: 2nd Champions Award, 1st in Innovation Project Award
  2020   RePLAY   YinzGirls: 3rd Champions Award, 1st in Robot Design and Programming
  2020   RePLAY   Team BOT: 2nd in Robot Design and Programming
  2020   RePLAY   Infinite Loop: 3rd in Robot Design and Programming, 
  2019   City Shaper (Open)   Raptorbots: 1st in Robot Game, 1st in Innovation Project, 3rd Champions Award
  2019   City Shaper (Open)   Team N.E.X.T: First Place Award in Robot Strategy
  2019   City Shaper (Open)   YinzGirls: First Place Award in Core Values Team Work
  2019   City Shaper   Team B.O.T: 3rd in Robot Game, and 2nd Champions Award in Scholastic
  2019   City Shaper   Triple B: First Place Award in Innovation Project
  2018   Into Orbit   Champion's Award Scholastic Division
  2018  
Into Orbit
  First Place Award Project Innovative Solution
  2018  
Into Orbit
  First Place Award Robot Performance Scholastic Division
  2018  
Into Orbit
  First Place Award Reseach
  2018  
Into Orbit
  Third Place Award Robot Performance
  2018   Into Orbit   Champion's Award and Invitation to International Razorback Arkansas
  2018   Hydrodynamics   First Place Overall Core Values Award at the International Razorback Arkansas
  2017   Hydrodynamics   Champion's Award and invitation to International Razorback Arkansas
  2017   Hydrodynamics   First Place Award in Strategy and Innovation
  2016   Animal Allies   Champion's Award and invitation to the World Festival 
  2016   Animal Allies   First Place Award in Project Presentation
  2016   Animal Allies   First Place Award in Project Innovative Solution
  2015   Trash Trek   First Place Award in Programming
  2015   Trash Trek   First Place Award in Project Presentation
  2015   Trash Trek   Second Place Award in Team Inspiration
  2014   World Class   First Place Award in Innovative Project Research
  2014   World Class   First Place Award in Core Value
  2014   World Class   Second Place Award in Programming
  2013   Nature's Fury    First Place Award in Programming
  2013   Nature's Fury   Second Place Award in Engineering Design     
  2012   Senior Solutions   First Place Award in Project Research
  2012   Senior Solutions   Second Place Award in Project Research
  2012   Senior Solutions   Third Place Award in Project Research
     2011      Food Factor   First Place Award in Programming
  2011   Food Factor   First Place Award in Project Research
  2010   Body Forward   Second Place Award in Project Research
  2009   Smart Move   First Place Award in Project Research
  2008   Climate Connections   Directors Award
  2008   Climate Connections    Second Place Award in Programming

YINZ Girlz, TX, April 2022 - The middle school robotics team YINZ Girlz, hosted by MySTEM Academy, won the First Place Core Values Award at the 2022 World Festival in Houston They competed against 78 International Teams and represented Western PA. 

SPORTSTEAM, AR, May 2022 - The middle school robotics team SPORTSTEAM, hosted by MySTEM Academy, won the First Place Robot Design Award at the FIRST Lego League Razorback Open Invitational at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. They competed against 80 International Teams and represented Western PA. SPORTSTEAM used a color sensor to automatically detect each set of codes and operated a motor to accomplish multiple tasks using differential gears.

WEXFORD, PA, February 21 2021 - The middle school robotics team NextGen Robotics, hosted by MySTEM Academy, won the First Place Director’s Award at the 2021 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Western Pennsylvania Championship. In addition to the 1st place overall, NextGen Robotics also got the first place in the Robot Game. The team qualified to attended the First Lego League International Greece in June 2022, with 100 teams from all over the world. As the recipient of the Global Innovation Project Award, NextGen Robotics has also been nominated to submit their Innovation Project to the next level.

2018-2019 Beastbots FLL Robotics Team participated in the Razorback Invitational in Arkansas.

2017-2018 AI FLL Robotics Team participated in the Razorback Invitational in Arkansas.

Print | Sitemap
© MySTEM Academy 2020, maria@mystemacademy.com, (412) 513-6155