Send the LEGO Llamas to Nationals

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The LEGO Llamas need help getting to Florida!

The LEGO Llamas are a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team from Saint Paul Public School's Capitol Hill Gifted and Talented Magnet School who have advanced from the Minnesota FLL State Championship for the chance to compete nationally at the Florida Sunshine Invitational in Daytona Beach in June. This amazing team of talented, intelligent, and empathetic 8th grade girls need your help to get there.

The LEGO Llamas are the first team from Saint Paul Public Schools to ever advance from the Minnesota FLL State competition to a national level competition. Their work and dedication has been an inspiration to other teams in their school, especially the younger girls.

This awesome team of five girls has invested their time and energy to excel in FLL's six core values: discovery, innovation, impact, inclusion, teamwork, and fun. They've developed their STEM, collaboration, critical-thinking, research, creativity, and presentation skills to become an award-winning team. Now it's time to send them to Florida to compete with 86 other teams from around the country (and the world).

That's where you come in.

The LEGO Llamas team needs to raise funds for their registration fees, plane tickets, car rental and transportation, and room and board for themselves and their two coaches so they can compete in Florida in June.

They need to get their robot, Battery Acid, there too!

MORE ABOUT FIRST LEGO LEAGUE:

FIRST LEGO League is more than just playing with LEGOS. Students learn to build and code a SPIKE PRIME robot to complete challenges. Teams are also provided with a problem associated with the year's FLL theme. They complete an innovation project which is presented to judges at each competition. This year's theme was MASTERPIECE which asked teams how they can use technology and the arts to help engage others or increase participation in what they love to do.

To compete at the championship level, teams need to excel in all areas of the competition. And that's what the LEGO Llamas have done!

The LEGO Llamas, who are in their fourth year as a team, call their innovation project "89th Note" and describe it as a website for musicians and composers to more easily get commissions.

The LEGO Llamas developed a website available in multiple languages to improve networking in the music industry as well as making music more accessible, which will cause the music industry to grow.

They said, "We knew early on that we wanted our project to focus on music because it is one thing that we all have in common. As we interviewed professionals in the music industry, one problem that we noticed was that musicians needed more ways to network with each other. We created 89th Note, a website where musicians can network with other musicians. As the season progressed, we realized we wanted to focus on female musicians and increase the number of opportunities available to them."