Special to The Oregonian, January 21, 2010, By Angella Foret Diehl
Beaverton’s Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies and Portland’s Nanites took home top prizes last weekend at the ninth annual Intel Oregon FIRST LEGO League 2009 Championship held at Liberty High School in Hillsboro.
The competition theme, “Smart Moves,” asked participants to transform the way we look at transportation.
The all-girl Rubber Duckies, from Village Home Education Resource Center, tackled the project of solving the germ problem within a busy hospital environment by conducting research at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland. The team presented a two-step solution composed of a unique air-purification system and an artificial-intelligence-driven cleaning robot.