GORHAM – An team of three boys from Mt. Blue Middle School was one of the top four teams competing at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham on Saturday.
Matt West, Harris Roberts and Jared Foster, calling themselves “The Puffins,” took fourth statewide in a First Lego League contest. It included about 50 teams, said Diane Smith, gifted and talented coordinator for SAD 9.
The three boys were not officially sponsored by their school. Instead, they paid for and organized their own team. The only thing their coach did was “have lots of food around,” Smith said Saturday.
Three other teams from the district competed as well – two teams from Academy Hill School in Wilton and one from Cascade Brook School in Farmington.
The group from Cascade Brook School, “H2O” featured recently in the Sun Journal, took top honors in programming, Smith said.
Each team was judged on programming, teamwork, robot mission and presentation of a research project. The Farmington team’s robot did everything it was supposed to do in terms of its program, she said, but didn’t fare as well on the mission course.
“(The team) was disappointed in what the robot did on the course,” Smith said.
One of the teams from Wilton, “Lego Incognito,” also made the top 16.
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