Mountain Home High School in Mountain Home, Ark., will be awash in bright lights, loud music, and hundreds of excited youngsters Dec. 7. Uninformed onlookers might assume the hullabaloo is the result of an athletic competition, but these kids will be buzzing about robots, not free throws.
The all-day competition will bring together as many as 78 teams in the FIRST Lego League Arkansas State Tournament.
According to tournament co-chair John Langanke, an industrial engineer at Baxter Healthcare, participants are tasked with presenting a hypothesis and then building a working robot from a kit of Lego bricks, sensors, motors, and gears.
"This year's challenge is City ...