STAMFORD — - The Long Ridge School will host the Indy SumoBot Tournament Feb. 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The event will feature students from The Long Ridge School, Greenwich Country Day and Hackley School of Tarrytown, N.Y. Participating students will compete against each other with robots they built using the Lego Mindstorm platform. The tournament goal is for students to use creative programming and strategies they have learned to push their opponent's robot out of a battle zone.
The academic goal of the Indy SumoBot League is to give students at independent schools in the tri-state area an opportunity to improve their robot building, programming, and controlling skills in a fun and competitive way. All creations, programs and strategies are made available to all students involved with the competition so that they can learn from and improve upon each other's work.
The Long Ridge School is an independent, co-educational elementary school (preschool through Grade 5) in North Stamford, Connecticut.