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BEST IN BOT: These budding engineers representing the Sunset Park Library smashed the
competition to win the system’s borough-wide robotics contest. Photo by Caroline Ourso
It’s a battle of
the bots at BPL
Sunset Park youngsters terminate the
competition at boro robotics tourney
BY COLIN MIXSON
These kids are more than meets the
eye!
Young geniuses from Sunset Park
dominated a borough-wide competition
to determine Kings County’s best
pint-sized robotics engineers.
The droids duked it out on Feb. 9
at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central
Branch in Prospect Heights, where the
winners claimed victory over a pack
of 8- to 16-year-old bot-builders who all
demonstrated exceptional technical
skills, according to a library spokeswoman.
“These are pretty young kids in
a lot of cases, and they’re doing some
amazing work,” said Fritzi Bodenheimer.
“Everyone really did well.”
Participants who enrolled via their
local libraries built and programmed
Lego’s Mindstorm-brand bots, using
code to instruct their automatons to
complete a number of challenging
tasks that, in keeping with the competition’s
“Into Orbit” space theme, revolved
around delivering alien fossils,
rescuing stranded astronauts, and
navigating hostile terrain.
The championship featured 12
teams, each of which previously
scored either fi rst-, second-, or thirdplace
prizes in one of the local library
system’s four regional tournaments,
which drew some 202 budding
HUMAN TOUCH: Bud Jackson, left, and
Maurice Anderson prepped their team’s robot
during the competition at the Central
Library in Prospect Heights.
Photo by Caroline Ourso
engineers in total.
The victors representing the Sunset
Park Library will now battle other
robot-wranglers at a citywide tournament
on the distant isle of Manhattan
on March 16 and 17. And depending on
how they fare, they could go on to pit
their creations against other burgeoning
brainiacs from across the country,
Bodenheimer said.
“The national tournaments are unbelievable,”
she said. “They fi ll whole
stadiums with people cheering on the
robots.”
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