FIRST Lego League Tourneys Set Stage for Regional Competition
Florida's FIRST Lego League (FLL) tournaments, held as fundraisers for local robotics teams, including at Desh Bagley’s TechPlayZone in the Greater Brandon community of Riverview, determine who will compete at regionals in February.
More than 200 elementary and middle school students from Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Bradenton counties competed this year at the FIRST Lego League (FLL) qualifying robotics tournament on Dec. 8, at the Brandon campus of Hillsborough Community College. It marked the fourth year in a row that Desh Bagley and her Riverview-based TechPlayZone students and parents, from Greater Brandon and the southeastern Hillsborough County area, ran the tournament as a fundraiser for team efforts. At the Columbus Drive campus of Hillsborough Community College, and in partnership with FLATE, the tournment got under way with 15 teams from the Tampa Bay area competing to secure a bid for the upcoming Tampa Bay regional competition. Emerging victorious…
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