I was able to attend the First Lego League 'Power Puzzle' challenge tournament at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford last weekend. Duxford, an old WWII fighter air base, has an enormous collection of commercial and military planes. The FLL tournament took place nestled amongst some of the exhibits in the recently built AirSpace hanger.
The tournament was a great success with many of the top UK teams attending. With scores frequently over the 250 points mark it is a tough tournament to participate in for teams.
The over all tournament champions were team TSM Roboteam 2K7 who's robot showed excellent consistency and who delivered some of the best presentations across the three over scoring activities. Well done to TSM Roboteam 2K7 - who now go onto the UK final in Birmingham.
I was particularly pleased that we (Microsoft UK) could also support the Duxford tournament by funding all the medals and trophies. This gave me the opportunity to join David Massey (Robot challenge teacher extraordinare) in giving the awards.
It was great to see the team's robot solutions - I still have to build mine for exhibition and FLL recruitment work - it has given me and my sons plenty of ideas :-)
Well done to all the teams who took part - we think you are awesome!
Team TSM Roboteam 2K7 tournament champions.
Some other photos from the event.
