Homeschoolers do it again! Win lego contest – check it out.
At last, the anticipated update to my Dec. 13 story about the Huntsville, Ala., home-schoolers in the Lego Robotics competition. The state competition was held this weekend, and the Huntsville Homers finished second in the state, scoring perfectly in the core values/team cooperation event and beating many other public and private schools from across Alabama. They did everything from build a bridge, complete with landscaping, ships, buses, land, and water (in 7 minutes no less), to researching and designing an ozone filter to be attached to a water-filtration system that could be used by missionaries in Haiti. One judge was particularly interested in their real-world water-safetyproject, as he had nearly died from an under-boiled cup of tea in India.
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