Last Chance To Join a Lego League Team

The last chance meeting to become a part of a Lego League team will be held Wednesday, August 29, at at 7 p.m.

The Young Innovators Society will host the meeting for any coach or team mate who is in need of a team. Parents are encouraged to coach and become an integral part of the process. This year teams will focus on solutions for problems that senior citizens face.

Teams consist of up to 10 participants and are led by a coach. Within these teams, students learn how to work together, research and presentation skills as well as robotics. In its third year of existence, YIS has helped 25 teams, the largest number of teams from one area in Ohio, to learn about and participate in the Lego League Competitions. This past year, five teams moved onto the District competitions and one team advanced to the State competition.

The teams will work in three areas: core values, which demonstrates team work and problem solving; presentation, which is a representation of a solution the team has created; and robotics, which involves programming a robot to follow commands and complete missions.

In the spring of 2010 the MIT Alumni Club of Northeast Ohio helped inspire and form ten Lego League teams in Solon. 

The coaches and parents of those original ten teams founded the Solon Engineers’ Club (SEC) now renamed Young Innovators’ Society, a 501(c) (3) organization in January 2011.  YIS’ mission is to inspire students to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and to become gracious, professional leaders.  In its initial year, two of SEC’s teams progressed to the statewide competition in Columbus. 

More information about YIS and all of its programs can be found at www.solonstem.org and also on Facebook.