© Sieds Damstra and Monique Sluiman
In the weeks/months prior to the event, teams from several schools from the Netherlands and Belgium worked on designing, programming and building a robot from LEGO building bricks with reference to the theme 'hydro dynamics'.
That Saturday, at 10 o'clock in the morning, the competition started with the robots the teams had built. The winning team, consisting of only girls, from a school in Noordhorn eventually became the winner of this Benelux final. They will represent the Netherlands in the FIRST World LEGO Festival in Europe and possibly the United States later this year.
Sieds was accompanied by the ASTRON meccanoid robot, which attracted a lot of attention. The children (and not to forget their parents) enthusiastically tried to give a command to the robot, like 'give me a hug' or 'do a dance'.
Thank you, Sieds, for being an ASTRON ambassador at this event full of technology and science, though in a rather different way than we usually do.