In its first year in FIRST Lego League, the Boston Chinese Science Technology Athletics Recreation (CSTAR) Youth Club has created three FLL teams and three Junior FLL teams for the upcoming 2015 season.  Current team members are students at Day, Burr, Franklin, Horace Mann, and Cabot schools.  The teams have been meeting individually for the last few weeks.   In addition, the Junior FLL teams are gathering in group meets on summer weekends.  Typically, team members work on Lego models during the week and then bring them to show to the group in their weekend meets.  This encourages them to plan what they want to build, cherish and improve what they are building, and present what they have finished.  The times and locations of the meets vary from week to week, usually at Auburndale Cove Picnic Area or Newton Centre  Playground.  These gatherings are open to everyone of Junior FLL age (kindergarten through Grade 3).  If you’d like to participate in any of these casual pre-season meets, please email CSTAR co-founder Guolin “Alex” Wen at GuolinWen@gmail.com.

CSTAR is a not-for-profit organization newly founded by some enthusiastic Newton parent volunteers.  CSTAR is committed to bring a variety of extracurricular activities in Science, Technology, Athletics and Recreation to Newton youngsters.  It currently runs summer programs in soccer and FIRST Lego League.