9, who work together on a project
that combines science, technology,
engineering and math,” explained
Sharon Sicher, a teacher at the school
who, along with Cris Perdue, principal
of the school, has headed up the
extracurricular team project for the past
three years. Under their guidance, the
local students have earned first place
recognitions in several categories of
competition at the regional level each
of the three years they competed.
Lynchburg
Timberlake
Christian
School hosted this year’s event on
November 9.
“In the bigger schools the Lego
League would be made up of only top
tier academic students,” says Sharon,
“but since our school is so small we
had a range of aptitudes.”
he credits this mix for the
wonderful creativeness of the skit and
props and the fact that the team worked
so well together. She added that this
year the students did their best ever in
the robot competition.
The students start each year’s
project by deciding on a specific event
based on an assigned theme. This
year’s theme was “Nature’s Fury”.
After some lively discussions and
painstaking research, they decided they
would depict rescue efforts following
a volcanic eruption which left planes
crippled by clouds of ash and smoke.
Next they had to pick a community
that could identify with such a disaster.
This required even more research.
They decided to focus on both the
Delta Airline community and London,
England – home to Heathrow Airport.
A volcanic eruption in Iceland would
impact not just the safety of air travel
but it would create economic problems
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