Fifty-one teams of students in grades 4th – 8th from across Wyoming, including fifteen Natrona County School District teams, participated in the 2024 FIRST LEGO League Challenge Wyoming Championship. NCSD students in grades K-3 showcased their exceptional engineering, problem-solving, and teamwork skills as they competed in their own LEGO challenge, building upon future success for years to come.
This year, the FIRST LEGO League Submerged encouraged teams to use their ingenuity to imagine new ways to explore life beneath the surface of the ocean. The First Lego League Submerged robot game challenged students to use technology to innovate for a better world with healthy oceans. Teams were challenged to explore varying habitats found in different ocean layers and retrieve an artifact from a sunken ship. Teamwork and gracious professionalism were fully displayed as the building blocks for their outstanding ideas and solutions.
The tournament’s top honor, The Champion’s Award, recognized a team that embodies the FIRST LEGO League experience by fully embracing LEGO’s Core Values while achieving excellence and innovation in the Robot Game and Innovation Project.
Congratulations to all student participants on an exceptional showing of your creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, and design skills!
A special thank you to all volunteers, judges, teachers, club sponsors, school families, NCSD Athletics and Activities, NCSD Maintenance, BOCES, FIRST partners, and all others whose support encourages students to continue creating, designing, and innovating!
Listed below are the 2024 FIRST LEGO League Challenge Wyoming Championship award winners:
FIRST LEGO League Robotics Award Winners
Coach/Mentor Awards: Braidee Sands (Poison Spider School-Casper); David Haberkorn- Pioneer Park (Cheyenne)
Core Values Award: 2nd Place: Tiger Sharks (Lusk), Winner: Rouge-Botics (Sheridan)
Innovation Project: 2nd Place: Powell Paradoxes (Powell), Winner: Marine Mechanics (Ranchester)
Robot Design: 2nd Place: Cyclone Blue (CY Middle School-Casper), Winner: Circuit Breakers: Cyber Sharks (Cheyenne)
Robot Performance: 2nd Place: Coding Coyotes (Jackson), Winner: Powell Paradoxes (Powell)
Breakthrough Award: Grump & Giggles (Laramie)
Engineering Excellence Award: Circuit Breakers-Cyber Sharks (Cheyenne)
Rising All-Star Award: We Don’t Byte (Powell)
Motivate Award: Nerdy Birds (Laramie)
Judge’s Award: Fire Bricks (Cheyenne)
Champion’s Award: 2nd Place: Cyclone Blue (CY Middle School-Casper), Winner: LEGO-Ologists (Homeschool-Casper)