Something else to cheer about

I love stories like this. Nothing is more exciting than kids doing great things.

clipped from www.oregonlive.com Kids' road to engineering win is paved with Legos The journey of the three-boy, three-girl Oregon team included as much as four years of preparation, a knowledge of three computer programming languages and a nanotech solution for cleaning up plastic in the Pacific Ocean. To be official: The team won the Champion's Award at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League World Festival. It's the premier award given to teams that excel in all areas of the competition and show "gracious professionalism." Unofficially: It's like winning a junior engineering Super Bowl. For the competition, the students had to prepare a presentation on this year's theme -- nanotechnology, or molecular-size machines. They looked for a nanotech application that could clean up small, degraded plastic particles rampant in ocean waters.