SAS PD is off To the First World Festival–Today SAS Pudong Lego World Festival Team begins its trip to the Lego World Festival Championships held in St. Louis, Missouri.  From Left to Right Alex Chen(10th), and Owen Liang(10th), Kevin Xu(8th), and Will Xu (10th) have been working very hard since February to prepare for this amazing opportunity.  We will be not only representing our school, but we will be 1 of three teams representing the country of China.  

Together, with two other SAS Pudong First Lego Teams, this team undertook a research project that looked at the way trash is collected and processed out of SAS Pudong.  They have created and shared their research findings and will be taking their presentation to show the judges at the Championship.  They have completely retooled their EV3 robot competition missions and on their last practice (Saturday) they broke 600 points on the competition board.  They are still madly working to complete 1 additional board mission and if they get it and all the stars align they have the potential to break 700 pts which would be an awesome achievement.  They have developed and will be presenting a Lego Core Values Presentation and a Design presentation to judges as well at the competition.

The Actual Competition runs from Wednesday, April 27th to Saturday, April 30th.  Our SAS team is one of three teams representing China.  Yes, the students and coaches (Barbara Boyer, Kevin David, and Tim Boyer) are feeling the pressure but the opportunity to compete and see other teams from around the world in the 4 First Levels (First Lego Jr, First Lego League, First Tech Challenge, and First Robotics Competition) is something that the coaches and most of these students have been working at for the last 4 years. 

The Team Activities will be out on Twitter, or you can also check out our blog posts at

• http://sites.saschina.org/pdlibrary/
• http://sites.saschina.org/pdlibrary/sas-fll-2015/ 
• or follow us using #SASPDFLL

You can follow on twitter @SASPDLIB.  Search this #SASPDFLL to see our progress.

You can also follow the Live Feed at the site below.  

The Championship will be live streamed at http://www.firstchampionship.org/watch-championship-live

A HUGE thanks to all the volunteers, Faculty and Staff at SAS Pudong that have worked to make this all happen.