“No Limits” crushed all opponents in knowledge tournament – NRK

– It is absolutely fantastic. I am almost in tears. There has been some fighting intense weeks of hard work and a lot of practice, says Ingard Wara from Tromsø.

This weekend 46 teams from Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands and Denmark gathered in Mo i Rana to participate in the Scandinavian final of the world’s largest knowledge tournament, First Lego League. The goal is to increase interest in technology and science in children and young people.

Created «No Limits» Tromso won the Scandinavian finals and are now ready for global finale in the United States in April 2016.

team also secured marketing award, 2nd place in the Research Award and nomination for technology award. No Limits is a team with one girl and six boys between 10 and 13 years. The team has 3 supervisors, and have been doing FLL since 2014.

Several teams from the north

This year’s theme was the future of waste management. “No Limits” has researched how it should be more fun for people to deliver their trash. They also created the prototype of an app called “Skrotbekjemperen.”

Since mid-September, 902 teams from 49 Scandinavian cities working with FLL mission is threefold with challenges in science, technology and cooperation. In November, it held regional finals where 46 Scandinavian teams qualified for Mo i Rana. With all 24 teams from Norway were chances for wins at home.

From Troms attended also made “Trash Killers” from Lyngsdalen school Furuflaten, and “Team GOLE” from Seljestad school in Harstad.

In Finnmark participated teams “Green team” from Elvebakken school in Alta, “Adults no adgang- HR” from Hammerfest Robotics in Hammerfest and “White Foxes» Vadsø school in Kirkenes.

Science and technology in practice

FIRST Lego League, in close cooperation with Statoil, wants to arouse interest in science through real issues that can inspire children and young people. Therefore contains knowledge tournament both professional and personal development through cooperative and practical learning. The idea is that early awareness of science and technology can contribute to a choice of education in this direction. How will tomorrow’s engineers ensured.

– FIRST Lego League is about to arouse interest in research, science and technology among young people in Norway. Today we have witnessed amazing effort, inner glow, and not least willingness to learn among participants. We hope the event inspires so we ensure tomorrow’s engineers and scientists, says sponsorship manager in Statoil, Cathrine INSTEBØ.