Potomac Snapshot: FIRST LEGO State Champions

"Organized Kaos," a team of nine students, aged 10 to 13, won the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Maryland State Championships held at the UMBC campus on March 5. Organized Kaos won the 1st Place Champions Award from over 400 Maryland teams and will be one of four teams that have been invited to represent the United States at the Open European Championship in the Canary Islands, Spain from May 4­-7. Teams are judged on four components: mastery of the hardware and software design of an autonomous robot; creating an innovative solution to solve problems associated with solving this year’s theme, Trash Trek; FIRST core values; and the performance of their autonomous robot. Organized Kaos is comprised of Rohan Dewan, Kevin Franklin, Abhiram Kidambi, Arjun Oberoi, Lara Ojha, Rohan Ojha, Anika Seth, Devasena Sitaram of Potomac, and Mihil Sreenilayam. The team is coached by Pankaj Oberoi and Jaspreet Seth. See http://organized­kaos.weebly.com/ or ​https://www.facebook.com/OrganizedKaosFLL.