A team of current and former Lorton Station Elementary students won top honors in the FIRST Lego League Robotics state tournament.
Lorton — A team of current and former Lorton Station Elementary students won top honors in the FIRST Lego League Robotics state tournament. Team members Bryson Shier, Shreyas Mayya, Jay Rajurkar, Arjun Kumar, and Baylor Shier competed in the two-day event. On the first day of competition, entries were judged in the following categories: Robot Design, Project Solution, and Core Values. The second day of competition included participation in the Robot Game, which involves programming their robot to do more than ten missions in two and a half minutes. The Lorton Station team beat 108 of Virginia and Washington, D.C.’s best teams from the regional tournament to earn the one bid to the world finals in St. Louis.