The 4th Annual LEGO Contest Winners are In!
by erin
Another summer, another LEGO contest and good times were had by all! This year we had 155 entries and over 300 people attended the Awards Ceremony! The top three winners in each of the five age categories (Preschool, K-2, 3-5, 6-8 & 9-12) received gift certificates to Toys R Us and medals. Special thanks to our hardworking judges: Eli Neiburger, AADL Associate Director of IT and Product Development, Eric Klooster, AADL IT Application Developer and finally Langel Bookbinder, Founder and Proprietor of battleofthebits.org. The judges needed every second of their three hours of deliberation to make the hard decisions this year!
Congratulations to all of our winners! And see you next year!
Click read more to see all of this year's winners.
Preschool:
1st Place - Hudhaifah Rehman
Runner-Up - Kenneth Jiang
Honorable Mention - Natalie Leffler
Best Motorized - Tommy Simon
Best Architectural/Engineering - Lucy Cassell-Kelley
Coolest Robot - Kairi Kowalski
Best Vehicle - Kevin Song
Most Creative - Andrew VanderMolen
Most Sophisticated - Hudhaifah Rehman
AADL LEGO® Master Builder - Eliot Schoolmaster
Grades K-2:
1st Place - Vishrut Khandelwal
Runner-Up - Anisha Fujii
Honorable Mention - Forrest Hadley
Best Motorized - Xander Doom
Best Architectural/Engineering - Evan & Ella Markley
Coolest Robot - Ben Birdsall & Scott Knudsen (tie)
Best Vehicle - Walden Jones-Perpich
Most Creative - Rachel Gowell
Most Sophisticated - Alex Szumko
AADL LEGO® Master Builder - Colin Finnegan
Grades 3-5:
1st Place - Peyton Miller
Runner-Up - Calvin Mayman
Honorable Mention - Xavier Iniguez
Best Motorized - Benjamin Eric Cohen
Best Architectural/Engineering - Spencer Steiff
Coolest Robot - Gavin Nossal
Best Vehicle - Joe Schaldenbrand
Most Creative - Ben Gowell
Most Sophisticated - Peter Jacobs & Jayson Song (tie)
AADL LEGO® Master Builder - Eric Xu
Grades 6-8:
1st Place - Caleb Jones
Runner-Up - Ryan George
Honorable Mention - Matthew Remillard
Best Motorized - Marshal Knott
Best Architectural/Engineering - Andreas Prawdzik
Coolest Robot - Christopher Williams
Best Vehicle - Kevin McGregor
Most Creative - Nicole Xu & John Crane, Aaron Crane, and Avi Covrigaru (tie)
Most Sophisticated - Noah Luntzlara
AADL LEGO® Master Builder - Josh Goodman and Andrew Lemerand
Grades 9-12
1st Place - Peter Zieske
Runner-Up - Elizabeth Deatrick
Honorable Mention - John Behrendt
Best Architectural/Engineering - William Anderson
Best Vehicle - Nick Lemerand
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