FIRST LEGO League Alaska

IDEA’s FIRST LEGO League teams did exceptionally well all across Alaska this year! Not only have all of our FLL team members remained dedicated with weekly club meetups, team practices, and attending preliminary events–but IDEA Team “Storm Tech” earned the 1st Place Statewide Champion trophy at the FLL Open Championship held in Fairbanks on February 15, 2020.  In addition, they also won the Robot Game competition. Among this win, several of our other teams have earned multiple awards across the state at various competitive events throughout Alaska.

• Philosophers received 2nd Champions in Anchorage
• Fungi’s received Judges  “Judges Choice” in Anchorage
• Moose on the Loose received “Core Values” in Fairbanks

We are so proud of everyone’s amazing effort! Congratulations to all of our hard-working LEGO robotics teams! And, a BIG thank you to all of our coaches, parents, mentors, and volunteers of our LEGO community.

Storm Tech Team Roster:

Josiah Pipkin
Hannah Lewellyn
Colman Mullins
TJ Waggener
Levi Beck
Caleb Parsons
Veylen Threadgall

Our IDEA Teams did exceptionally well at this year’s Alaska Academic Decathlon 2020 statewide competition.

Congratulations to all of our hard-working students! We’d also like to pass along a huge thank you for the collaborative efforts from all of the dedicated parents, coaches, Alaska AcaDeca staff, and volunteers–without whom of which, this shared success would not be possible. Go Team IDEA!!!

IDEA Team 1

2nd Place Overall in Division 1 Schools

IDEA Team 2

4th Place Overall in Division 1 Schools

Individual IDEA Student Awards

We are beyond proud of each and every one of our students! We would like to recognize them all for this amazing achievement and their outstanding teamwork. Among our 19 IDEA Alaska AcaDeca 2020 team members, there were also 23 individual medals awarded as follows:

Battle of the Books District Winners 2020 

We’d like to recognize the hard work exhibited by each and every one of our Battle of the Books participants, team members, coaches, and the many parents and volunteers that make this event possible!  A BIG congratulations also goes out to our winning teams shown below.  All of our BOB teams placed in the statewide championship and BOTH our middle and high-schoolers earned first place!  

High School 

Nolan Reiley (Fairbanks)
Eve Piatt (Soldotna)
Lucia Larroque (Anchorage)
Suzanne Alioto (Coach K)

Our High School team placed first out of 18 teams across the state!

Middle School 

Katie Jones (Fairbanks)
Gwendolyn Cheney (Anchorage)
Lydia Schwartz (Soldotna)
Jamie Frieman (Coach F)

Middle-schoolers took first place against 26 teams competing statewide!

5th/6th Grade

Rebekah Siegersma (Soldotna)
Adrianna Brandenberger (Petersburg)
Ida Bodony (Galena)
Janice Salsman (Coach SE)

Our 5th/6th Graders took home 5th place out of 31 total teams competing!

3rd/4th Grade 

Isabell Massey (Anchorage)
Elodie Frisk (Soldotna)
Talon Palmer (Fairbanks)
Leah Van Order (Coach A)

Last, but not least–3rd/4th Graders received 9th place out of 31 teams across the state!