An idea for an invention to help people with blindness has lead a group of fifth-grade Sammamish engineers to the FIRST Lego League State Championships.
The Nano Cheetah Bots are a group of seven fifth-grade boys from Samantha Smith Elementary who have formed a robotics and engineering club to take part in the FIRST Lego League season. Their project for the state event is a device that helps blind people with filling up a glass without pouring in too much and spilling their drink.
The team of seven, Maanav Sikaria, Abhinav Vallabhaneni, Nir Pechuk, Amogh Janganure, Aakarsh Balla, Aniketh Cheluva and Alan Duan, have qualified for the state championships on Feb. 11 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.