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This is from almost four weeks ago. As their fall activity, Katherine's GEMS (girls in engineering, math, and science) group participates in the Lego League tournament. This was a totally new world to me, but was actually kind of fun to watch. Prior to the competition, each team builds and programs a Lego Mindstorms robot to complete "missions." At the tournament they are scored on how many they can complete in 2 1/2 minutes. While they're doing this, an emcee gives the play-by-play and adrenaline pumping music blasts in the background. This year's Lego tournament theme was alternative energy, so their missions were things like pushing a hydro dam and wind turbines into place, etc. Katherine's team, the Solar Sisters, got an award for best programming, but didn't make it on to the state tournament.