CCSD Team Advances to Super Regional Robotics Competitions

A Cherokee County School District team earned honors at the regional First LEGO League robotics competition to advance to super regionals!

R.M. Moore ES STEM Academy’s Arrowheads team earned the Champions trophy at regionals to move on to the super regionals event next month.  Dean Rusk Middle School’s Brick Navy team won the Core Values award, and its Brick Army team earned the Robot Design award. Congratulations to our students and their teacher coaches and thank you to our School Board for its laser focus on ensuring our students are learning more, growing more, and achieving more in our classrooms than they could anywhere else!

The R.M. Moore team is made up of: Captains Emma Cumbee and Griffin Donnelly and Beckham Bailey, Alexa Cainion, Sawyer DeBord, Lincoln Duignan, Elsie Grimm, Jess Lamb, Kempton Laporte, and Weston Scott.  The team’s coaches are teachers David Cornn, Lauren Donnelly, and Donna Lownes.

The Dean Rusk Brick Navy team is made up of: Agilan Poovendran Kumaresan, Ava Murray, Devadarshan Ramprabu, Anderson Smith, Liam Snider, Callie Tisdale, Leo Zaccagnino, and Mohamed Zafran.  The Brick Army team is made up of: Luke Buchanan, Ethan Lawson-Body, Kiya Patel, Shri Sanevelly, Abhijith Senthilraj, Mason Sherman, and Venezia Zaccagnino.  The teams’ coaches are teachers Teresa Hutto and Lauren Snider.

For First LEGO League competitions, elementary and middle school teams design and build a robot using the LEGO Mindstorms system.  The robot must solve specific missions on a tabletop playing field with models made from LEGO bricks.  Each team also completes a research project to analyze and solve a problem; this year’s theme was focused on ocean exploration and ecosystem conservation.

Trophies are given for four categories of competition: Robot Design, Core Values, Robot Performance and Project, with an overall Champions trophy for the event’s highest score.  Teams advance to super regionals based on their score and can further advance to a state championship.  Additional CCSD teams may be selected in the coming weeks for super regionals based on calculations after other regional events complete.

The super regional competition, which will feature top teams from the region’s public and private elementary and middle schools, will be hosted by Mill Creek MS.  It is coordinated by teachers Mark Markley and Ryan Brumbelow, who also coordinated the regional event at their school.  

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