St. Mary Academy Bay View won the Champion’s Award at the FIRST LEGO League state championship on Saturday at Roger Williams University in Bristol. As the winners of the state championship, each student on the team, including Gabriella Osorio-Palo of Cranston, and Isabella Heffernan of Warwick, received a $20,000 scholarship, ($5,000 a year, renewable for four years) from Roger Williams University. In addition to building and programming a robot to score points on a game table, the S.M.A.R.T. 2.0 team completed a project related to the FIRST LEGO League Animal Allies theme. They created a dog harness system to make it easier for people who are blind to communicate with their seeing-eye dogs. Once an address was spoken into the person’s phone, an app would transmit the directions via bluetooth to the dog’s vest. The dog would be trained to turn left or right when it felt a vibration on the left or right shoulder, making it easier for the team to navigate to their destination. S.M.A.R.T. 2.0 will spend the next several months preparing to compete in the FIRST World Festival in St. Louis, Missouri from April 26-29, where they will be one of 108 teams from more than 20 countries vying for awards in their project, robot design and programming, and core values.