
From March 19 to March 23, 2025, Douglass Residential College students participated in the inaugural Dublin City University (DCU) FIRST® LEGO® League Intervarsity Hackathon—and came home with first place in the overall competition!
Throughout the 24-hour event, teams used LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime kits to tackle the SUBMERGED℠ challenge, developing autonomous robots and innovative solutions to real-world underwater issues, such as marine conservation and deep-sea exploration. Six students from Douglass’ STEM Living-Learning Communities; Mehak Mantoo DRC’25, Kristodya Koduah DRC’26, Rachel Chempiel DRC’26, Rabiya Haque DRC’25, Alyssa Schmidt DRC’25, and Aishat Agboola DRC’25 traveled to Dublin, Ireland to compete. The all-expenses-paid trip abroad was sponsored by generous donations from Douglass alumni to the Women in Science and Engineering program.