It's decision day for many Central Texas students. They have spent months designing and programing robots to make precision movements. This weekend marks the annual First Lego League qualifying competition. It will determine which teams will move forward to the next round. The goal is to get students excited about science, technology, engineering and math.
"We have engineers and mentors that come in and work with the kids after school. so they get to work personal with an engineer in the fields that maybe they're interesting in pursing as a career in the future," said robotics teacher Norman Morgan.
Students ages 9 to 14 are able to take part in this program. In addition to building the Lego robot, they are also required to complete a research project. This year the topic was biomedical engineering.
