Congratulations to PS 9′s Robotics team for qualifying for the First Lego League’s citywide competition on March 18! At the Brooklyn-wide event on January 14, judges advanced the team to the citywide event at the Jacob Javits Center. Seventeen students in grades 3-5 have participated this year, meeting twice a week through the fall to prepare robots and research that address this year’s theme of “Keeping Food Safe.” The team this year nicknamed itself “Bacteria Terminators.” Ms. Moore (second grade teacher), Ms. Codrington (upper-grade science teacher) and Ursula Koniges (“Ms. Ursula”), a volunteer grad student from the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, have advised this year’s team.
The team will demonstrate their robot project on February 29 at PS 9′s school-wide science fair. This is the second year in a row that a PS 9 team has gone to the citywide finals. Last year, an artificial kidney design earned some of our current fifth graders the judges’ praise in the research event. Three team members from that team participated this year as well.
