First Lego League Competition

We are very pleased to become one of the sponsor of TEAM APHELION to take part in the yearly First Lego League Competition.

First Lego League is an International competition organised by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) for elementary and middle school students (age between 9~16)

Every year, First Lego League introduces a scientific and real-world challenge for the teams to research on. The challenge involves:

1. the Robot Game
2. the Robot Design
3. the Project and
4. the Core Values. 

The team will design and program an autonomous robot (LEGO Mindstorms/EV3) to score points on a themed playing field (Robot Game), develop a solution to a problem they have identified (project), share their knowledge and display their robot design, all guided by the FIRST Core Values.

TEAM APHELION is the first team (in Negeri Sembilan) to take part in the First Lego League Competition. The team is formed by 10 persons (8 students from age 9 to 16 and 2 adult coaches).

Team Members

No.	Name (Job)	Role	Experiences	Exposure
1	Sean Lam Chi Him	Strategic Planner	10 years	Local & Int’l
2	Bergmen ooi	Programmer	10 years	Local & Int’l
3	Joey Lai Shan Xin	Researcher	8 years	Local
4	Evan Lew Wen Kai	Strategic Planner	11 years	Local & Int’l
5	Wong Yong Onn	Technician	Newbies	Nil
6	Max Lim Feng Jie	Researcher	5 years	Local
7	Mok Jun Xi	Builder	5 years	Local
8	Nicholas Quah Nien Fung	Builder	5 Years	Local
	COACHES / MENTORS
1	Lew Yoong Yee	Mentor	n/a	n/a
2	Alison Lo	Coach	n/a	n/a

The team members consists of newbies and experienced students that participated in local and international robotic competitions since 2011, such as:

• National Robotics Competition, organised by Sasbadi, Malaysia
• World Educational Robotics Contest, organised by Abilix, China

And awards received by the team are:

• Best Teacher Awards and Best Innovation Award - NRC 2012 (Malaysia)
• Best Innovation Award and Fourth Placing - NRC 2013 (Malaysia)
• Third Placing - NRC 2014 (Malaysia)
• Best Innovation Award - WER 2016 (China)
• Participants - NRC 2016
• Champion - WER 2017 (China)
• 1st Runner's Up - NRC (Malaysia)

The project had started in September 2018 and the competition will be held in mid year of 2019.