San Bruno Park’s 3rd Annual Lego Robotics Competition 2025

Congratulations to the students who participated in SBEF’s and the District’s 3rd annual Lego Robotics Competition on April 26, 2025!

Since January, over ninety 5th-8th graders from our elementary schools and Parkside met weekly to work in teams to design, build, and program their robots, following the First Lego League Curriculum.

At the final competition this past Saturday, the 5th grade teams across all elementary schools competed against each other, while the Parkside teams competed against each other. In a series of timed two-and-a-half minute rounds, the teams completed their missions and could earn points for teamwork, accuracy, and number of missions completed. The teams were observed and judged by volunteers from biotech company Abbvie and the Nueva High School robotics team.

Congrats to our competition winners!

5th Grade Winners:

1st place: Team Girl Power^3-O.J. from Allen (Abby Latta, Ariana Rojas-Robertson, Jayden Louie, Sabrina Ma)

2nd place: Team We Are Steve from Portola (Aiden Alexander, Lincoln Balagot, Ryan Lee)

3rd place: Team BillyBobJr from Belle Air (Krisha Tandel, Augusto Novaes, Valentino Segura)

Parkside Winners:

1st place: Team Rice Farmers (Brandon Estrella, Tanner Fong, Lucas Cassell)

2nd place: Team El Primoooooo (Xavier Ablang, Jay Hsu, Oscar Kimmell)

3rd place: Team Weaponized Chickens 2.0 (Aiden Abdelsalam, Leo Ball, Branden Wang)

We would like to thank all the people and organizations that made this event possible:

Google/YouTube, Artichoke Joe‘s and matching community donors for helping SBEF support the afterschool Lego Robotics program and competition

Michelle Graham, San Bruno Park School District’s Coordinator of Student Services, for partnering with us on the Lego Robotics program

Lego Robotics coaches: Delany Marley (Belle Air), Joseph Hoyer (Portola), Spencer Graham (John Muir & 7th-8th grade teams at Parkside), and Reid Brown and Lena Bedenok from Robotics Tech Club company (Allen & 6th grade teams at Parkside)

Volunteer judge and Portola parent Michelle Toft Graham and her team of volunteer judges from Abbvie

Volunteer judges from Nueva High School’s robotics team 

SBEF Board Member Kingsley Ma and SBEF volunteer/Portola parent Lorin Lee for helping to organize the competition. And, a shout-out to Kingsley for serving as our fantastic emcee!

All the parents who volunteered to help staff the registration and raffle tables and serve lunch at Saturday’s competition

It was another great year of this very popular STEM program, and we can’t wait to see you next year on the Lego mat!