Thirty four students from the Elmbrook Schools have earned coveted spots at four separate post-season invitationals!  Team B.U.I.L.D. and Team Alpha Geek from Burleigh Elementary and Pilgrim Park Middle School earned both Wisconsin spots at the World Championship in Houston, Texas in April, and will join the top 120 teams across the world.  Team Wildbots from Wisconsin Hills Middle School earned a spot at the Western Edge Invitational in Long Beach, California in May, and Team Lego Dynamics from Wisconsin Hills Middle School earned a spot at the ARI at Drew University in June.  

The students on B.U.I.L.D. are: Elizabeth B (7th Grade), Saranya B (7th Grade), Levi D (7th Grade), Sullivan K (7th Grade), Siddarth V (8th Grade), Vedant S (8th Grade), Vidyut N (6th Grade) and Eve D (5th Grade).  This is the team’s fourth trip to a post-season competition and 2nd trip to Worlds as the top team in Wisconsin! 

The students on Team Alpha Geek are: Akshaya A (8th grade), Sara A (8th grade), Vibha C (7th grade), Hugo K (8th grade), Lincoln L (8th grade), Zaynab M (7th grade), Liam O (8th grade), Lily O (5th Grade), Nandana P (8th grade), and Niranjana P (4th grade). This is the team’s third year in a row representing Wisconsin at the World Championship!

The students on Wildbots are: Ethan S (7th grade), Ansh S (7th grade), Purvi M (7th grade), Anvi M (7th grade), Luke S (7th grade), Liam N  (7th grade), and Shayna L (6th grade). This is the team's second year participating in FIRST LEGO League and first year attending a post-season invitational event!

The students on Lego Dynamics are: Aditya G (8th grade), Atharv N (8th grade),Johannes L (7th grade), Parthiv V(7th grade), Rishikish L (7th grade), Vickram K (7th grade), Siddhartha R (7th grade), Carlos M (7th grade) and Ayaan A (6th Grade). This is the team’s first year attending a Post Season Invitational.

FIRST LEGO League Challenge immerses students in grades 4–8 in real-world engineering, teamwork, and problem-solving. Teams design, build, and program autonomous LEGO robots to earn points by completing missions on an official game field, while also being evaluated on an Innovation Project and the FIRST Core Values, which include teamwork, inclusion, respect, Coopertition® and Gracious Professionalism®.

For the Innovation Project, teams spent up to three months researching a real-world problem connected to this season’s theme, UNEARTHEDTM, which focuses on archaeology and uncovering human history. At the competition, teams participated in a series of judging sessions that included a five-minute Innovation Project presentation, a discussion of their robot design and programming process, and time for questions and feedback from judges.

B.U.I.L.D.’s Innovation Project is a Climate Regulated Artifact Box (C.R.A.B.) system that comprises a segmented carrier box and climate control methods to improve the longevity of excavated artifacts.  The team is currently working on patenting their device!

Team Alpha Geek’s Innovation Project is the Phoenix, a robot that sorts and matches pottery sherds using 2D imaging and elemental analysis, helping archeologists find more matches to reassemble pots and connect with the people before us. The team built a half-scale working robot using LEGO technic and a Raspberry pi!

Wildbots’ Innovation Project is the Serpent Scentry, a programmable roving robot that patrols the perimeter of archeological excavation sites and sprays a cinnamon-clove scent to deter venomous snakes while also monitoring unsafe temperatures and other potential threats. The team built multiple iterations of a working model integrating a camera, temperature sensor, a solar panel, and a raspberry pi, as well as developing a companion app to improve safety conditions for archeologists.

Lego Dynamics Innovation Project is Project D.A.R.T.A or ( Drone-Assisted Artifact Recognition and Terrain Analysis).The project explores how drone-mounted, dual-frequency GPR paired with mixed reality visualization and real-time AI interpretation could improve archaeological site surveys while reducing physical barriers that have traditionally limited participation in fieldwork.The aim is to make archaeology more inclusive and help disabled archaeologist participate in the dig sites.

From November 2025 to January 2026, these Elmbrook teams were amongst 300 teams that competed at tournaments across Wisconsin, where certified judges evaluated robot performance, design, coding, teamwork, and research. At the robot game table, teams raced the clock to earn their highest possible score.

At the Wisconsin State tournament, B.U.I.L.D. placed 1st, Alpha Geek Placed 2nd, Wildbots placed 3rd, and Lego Dynamics placed 7th, securing them invitations to their respective post-season competitions.