All-girls robotics team wins international competition – Livingston Daily

The Pink Eagles' robot won first place in the Wonder League robotics competition.(Photo: Fred Tappen/Pink Eagles coach)

Hartland Townships Pink Eagles captured a top prize at the Wonder League Robotics Competition.

Coach FrankTappensaid the team, comprised of female students from Ore Creek Middle School, is ecstatic about its win.

Our daughter and her friends first joined Wonder League thinking it would be a fun and engaging way to learn more about robotics, but what they discovered was so much more than that, Tappen said. While solving this years missions, the girls learned invaluable, lifelong skills about time management, group collaborationand contributing to their community.

By working closely as a team, they developed some pretty creative solutions. What started out as a robotics project for a small group of girls grew into a remarkable story of learning and perseverance that excited our entire community, he added.

Wonder Workshop, creators of Dash & Dot robots that teach students creative problem solving, codingand robotics, announced the winners of thecompetition on Tuesday.

More than 5,300 teams from 52 countries participated in the competition. The Pink Eagles won the grand prize for the 9-to-12 age group and team XPLODE from Bangalore, India, won the grand prize for the 6-to-8 age group.

The grand-prize-winning teams each received a $5,000 grant for science, technology, engineering and math-related supplies anda Dash robot for every member of the team.

The competition began in October with a finalist roundin January. The teams competed to rescue animal habitats on Bear Byte Island by completing coding lessons and challenges.

Tappen said the Pink Eagles formed three years ago and has had great success this year, placing second in a First Lego League robotics contest. On Saturday, the team competes in Robofest in Canton.

They are having a banner year, he said.

Contact Livingston Daily justice reporter Lisa Roose-Church at 517-552-2846 or lrchurch@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @LisaRooseChurch.

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All-girls robotics team wins international competition - Livingston Daily