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Students
across Brooklyn came together on Saturday for the Brooklyn Robotics League
Championship that featured their passion for STEM-related problem solving.

The competition marked the end of their 10-week
program, which helped the students learn how to think critically,
problem-solve, and collaborate with others.

"I love to build Legos, I’ve been building
Legos since I was four...I got to meet a lot of new people, and also learn new
skills," says Tremaine Pass, one of the competitors.

Students across Brooklyn came together on Saturday for the Brooklyn Robotics League Championship that featured their passion for STEM-related problem solving.

Robotics Championship

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Way towards the weekend and one day definitely better than the other. We got to let you know what's going to happen on Sunday because it's definitely going to impact things, maybe heading even into Monday. Hope, what are we looking at here? Yes, a lot of travel woes starting Sunday evening and lasting into Monday morning. So here's the travel timeline. As early as 9 a.m. on Sunday, we'll be dealing with some scattered showers and throughout the day, it is going to turn windy and even gusty 25 35 MPH after 8 p.m. through at least 4 a.m. on Monday, expect windswept downpours that can reduce visibility and also just bring some hazardous travel conditions with any of the flooding concerns that we have across the boroughs. Now Monday morning, around 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. we're still going to be dealing with some standing water. But thankfully, the rain is coming to an end. It is turning drier and colder with temperatures in the mid 40. So here's where we're starting our weekend, the sunshine and the chilly temperatures are with us on Saturday and then we'll be climbing into the mid fifties throughout the day, a blend of sun and clouds really gonna be a nice time to go outside and enjoy the conditions while we have its Sunday, excuse me, starts off dry and then we're seeing some scattered showers during the late morning, early afternoon and then it gradually begins to ramp up in intensity again, steady rainfall, moderate to heavy downpours will be possible even through the overnight. This is around 1 a.m. On Sunday night, we are seeing those temperatures crashing from the sixties to the forties and the rain doesn't even take us into early Monday morning. So your Monday morning commute will still be impacted by the storm and we will notice that chilly gusty wind throughout the day, highs will be in the mid forties and this is what's new. We actually have a slight risk for some scattered flash floods across portions of the city.

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'Superpowered' STEM students take part in Brooklyn Robotics League Championship

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Well right here in our borough. A robotics championship was held today featuring kids from 15 libraries across Brooklyn displaying their passions for stem. You can take a look at the sights right there on news shows Julia Joseph was there at the event with the kids and robots and she tells us a whole lot more. It's the Brooklyn libraries robotics league championship and there is so much fun and excitement going on here today. You gotta come check it out. Kids ages nine through 17 competed against each other today to show off what they've learned over the past 10 weeks, their task to code and design a spike prime robot to ultimately function at today's tournament. I learned how to make the robot move forward backward, basic things, but I also learned how to make a turn to the kids got 3, 2.5 minute slots to play their robots. There's a list of missions that the robot must complete in order to score points, including its added functions and movements and all of the points are tallied up. The tournament's official referees. Erica Livingston says this program is what her child looks forward to every week coding, programming, building. And then I think the most important thing is like the collaboration, I think those are skills that all of us need. You know, so it's been wonderful for him to be involved in it engineering the robots and being part of a team is what kids say Has been their favorite part about the program. It's been pretty fun. I didn't expect it to be that crowded. It's just been fun like competing against other people. And the cool part about this program is that it's completely free. Making sure that every child in Brooklyn who wants to compete for their local libraries can reporting in prospect heights Julia, Joseph News 12.

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