Holomua's Robotics Team Trench Troopers Shine At FLL State Championships

Holomua's Robotics Team made up of 10 enrichment students grades 5 and 6 competed recently with 42 teams from public and private schools from Oahu and the neighboring islands at the 2017 First Lego League Championships.  The event was held at the Blaisdell Arena on Saturday, December 2nd,  and the theme of this year's competition was "Hydrodynamics."

Our team called themselves the "Trench Troopers."    Team members are:
               Brooklyn Amerman                        Mia'zadai Navarro
               Gracie Giles                                      Zyrex Pascual
               Landon Imamura                            Zoe Petty
               Brianne Kim                                     Sadie Ridep
               Isabella Mateo                                 Helen Tran

There were 4 areas of competition which each team had to prepare for and these were:
                           Project Presentation
                           Robot Design
                           Core Values  -  Teamwork Challenge
                           Robot Missions 

Results....... after hours and weeks of hard work and practice our Team 2365 Holomua 
Trench Troopers proved to be winners!!!  Our Robotics Team took 2nd place honors for
Project Presentation for Research and also came in 3rd Place Overall for the entire competition!!!  Their strong finish as 3rd Place Overall qualifies them to move on to the  Nationals ...... the 2018 First Lego League Razorback Invitational to be held at Arkansas University in mid May.  

CONGRATULATIONS to all team members and their hard working coaches Justin Furuta and Colleen Hokutan!!!   
     
          WAY TO GO VOYAGERS!!!  YOU CERTAINLY MAKE US PROUD!!!


                                                                                                                                 

Our Robotics Team with Principal, Gary Yasui