Teams supported by ARTESA, awarded at the FIRST LEGO League Explore 2026 National Festival!
The FIRST LEGO League Explore National Festival gathered teams from all over the country in Bucharest today, including six teams supported by the ARTESA Association.
While some of our projects are dedicated to equal opportunities and access to STEM education for children in rural areas, another important direction remains supporting performance. Participating in robotics competitions and festivals is, for children, a way to test what they have learned and see what the wider community of technology enthusiasts looks like.
Today's results confirmed once again that the work done in the workshops finds its place in such contexts.
From the club Inventika Place from Bucharest, the teams Robot Factory and STREAM Girls won the Challenge Solution Award, an award that recognizes how the teams understood the proposed challenge and each found their own solution, clear, well-thought-out and well-explained.
All from Inventika Place, the team Titanic Lego won the Coding Award, a distinction given for how the children used programming to make the model work and to demonstrate that they understand the connection between construction and digital logic.
Team Sensor ON Junior received the Core Values Award, an award that reflects the way the children worked together, the way they supported each other, and the way they presented the project as a team.
From Constantin Brancoveanu Vasilati Secondary School, the teams Vasilați Lions and Vasilați Tigers they received the Team Model Award, an award that recognizes the way the teams built and presented their LEGO model, the idea behind it, and the coherence of the entire project.
For children, such a day means more than the prizes they receive. It means meeting other teams, exchanging ideas, the emotions of the presentation, and the joy of seeing that what they built in the robotics workshops has meaning for others.
Congratulations to all the teams for the seriousness and work behind these projects! It is on days like these that you see most clearly how much children can grow when they are allowed to learn, experiment, and bring their ideas to fruition.
Thank you to the organizers, volunteers, parents and everyone involved! Their teams also deserved prizes!