ISKANDAR PUTERI: Malaysian schools won all 16 prizes at the 2024 Legoland School Challenge.
Taking home the grand prizes were SK Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, for the primary school category and Campus Rangers International School, Kuala Lumpur, for the secondary school category.
Both teams took home a Legoland School Challenge trophy made out of the iconic bricks, annual passes to all three parks at Legoland Malaysia Resort and Lego bricks.
Legoland Malaysia Resort divisional director CS Lim said that the country's schools, the majority of which are national schools, came out top out of 550 entries from seven countries.
"This year, all the 16 winners came from Malaysia," he told The Star after the competition's prize-giving ceremony at Legoland Malaysia Resort on Tuesday (Sept 3).
He said the judges were not given any information about who designed the entries.
"Everybody was competing on equal footing," he said.
The Legoland® School Challenge, first launched in 2022, is an annual event encouraging thousands of students to collaborate and harness their creativity, imagination, and construction skills to build extraordinary LEGO® creations.
This year, the competition was expanded to include schools from all across Asia, receiving an impressive response with over 550 entries from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, China, the Philippines, Thailand, and Laos.
