A slightly late blog, but with a good excuse – we’ve been busy building another trophy for the collection!
Yes, we’ve been to the Cumbria LEGO League competition once again. What’s more, we’ve returned with a trophy for the third year in a row!
LEGO League is an exciting international STEM competition that challenges young people to think like engineers, programmers and innovators. Working in teams, the children designed, built and programmed a LEGO robot to complete a series of missions linked to the theme of “archaeology’. Alongside this, they researched a problem in the field of archaeology, developed an innovative solution and presented their ideas to judges.
And it’s the innovation project that won the trophy this time. Our idea was to use use the power of AI to scan and identify possible historical artefacts discovered by regular people. Metal-detectorists, mud-larkers, builders, people digging flower beds; all of these people often stumble across interesting artefacts without knowing anything about what they’ve discovered. With our app, simply taking a photograph could give a quick indication of whether what has been found is important and interesting, or just an old pot. With help, we even used AI to mock up a version of what we think the app could look like. The judges were very impressed!
Check out the photos of the day below. Maybe next year we’ll get through to the national finals!
