Help Blazing Comets compete at FLL World League!

We Won! and we need You! Please help support our journey to Houston to attend the FLL World Championship in April, 2024

We are the Blazing Comets #52572, an FLL robotics team from West Des Moines, Iowa and we won the Iowa State 2024 FLL Championship!

What is FLL

FIRST ® LEGO® League (FLL) is a worldwide STEM Robotics competition where teams build robots and create innovative solutions to real-world problems.

On Jan 27th, 2024, Blazing Comets competed at the Iowa State FLL Championship competition, winning top honors, the FIRST PLACE IOWA CHAMPIONSHIP AWARD . We competed against 200 other teams across Iowa in Robot competition, Robot design, Innovation project, and Core values and secured first place to become ONE of the 2 teams to advance from state.

Our team will represent IOWA at the FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP to be held in Houston on April 17th-20th, 2024, and compete against 200+ champion teams worldwide.

Team won all the four components of the Champions Award for the FLL competition.

Excelling in these 4 elements and sharing that with the judges during a 30-minute interview is what earned us this championship!

Robot Design requires us to build and program an autonomous (no remote control) LEGO robot that can perform theme-based “mission” tasks on a table-top playing field. It includes designing, constructing, strategic thinking, and programming the team’s robot.

Robot Game missions require the robot to navigate, capture, transport, or deliver objects on the mission table. The more missions completed; the more points teams earn.

Innovation Project

Innovation project is around this year’s theme “using art and technology to engage others in what you love to do”. Our team built a website with all the tools needed to create 2D and 3D house designs with virtual walkthroughs, solving gaps in the home-buying process.

Core Values

Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition through Impact, Inclusion, Innovation, Discovery, Fun, and Teamwork. We empower children to achieve success in anything they do.

Our Journey

Our team started in 2019 and currently has five 8th graders, one 7th grader, three 5th graders from Waukee school district and 2 coaches.

Arjun Gujja - 8th grade, Timberline School

Ishani Atluri - 8th grade, Timberline School

Srinika Goteti - 8th grade, Timberline School

Rajshree Goli - 8th grade, Timberline School

Shiva - 8th grade, Timberline School

Shreyas Pothireddy - 7th grade, South Middle School

Anish Atluri - 5th grade, WH Elementary School

Aadhya Pendurthi - 5th Grade, WH Elementary School

Arin Iyer - 5th grade, WH Elementary School

We worked as a team by understanding each other's differences, used our creativity and persistence to problem solve, code, engineer and build a working robot, develop an innovation project. We learnt how to overcome challenges with robots not working as expected, learning how to code using sensors, meeting with community professionals for our innovation project etc., all while having lots of fun working together!

We Need your help!

It is going to cost a lot to make this trip happen! This team graciously asks for your donation to get us to the world competition in Houston and compete against 200+ teams world wide. Your financial help for the team will be used for the following expenses

Total cost for 9 kids and 2 coaches is around $16,000!!!

No Donation is too small!

We are also looking for corporate sponsorships and fundraising opportunities. If your business or organization likes to sponsor, please contact us through this page.

Thank you so much for your generous contribution and your support! It means so much to us and we will not let you down!