[ February 4, 2012; ] Academies @ Englewood
Dwight Morrow High School
274 Knickerbocker Road, Englewood, NJ, 07031
(20 teams)
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January 19th, 2012
FTC Tune-Up Scrimmage
Posted in Competitions, Events, FTC 
Tags: 2012, Bowled Over, FTC, Landroids, NJ, scrimmage 
Comments OffDecember 19th, 2011
DE FTC State Championship
[ January 28, 2012; ] Delaware FTC State Championship: http://moe365.org/ftc/DSFTC_home.php
Awards:
Winning Alliance:
Tactical Sheep (captain)
Landroids
Charter Impulse
Finalist Allinace:
Say Watt? (captain)
Watts Up
OZONE
Inspire Award:
1st place: Techno Clovers
2nd Place: Landroids
3rd place: Say Watt?
Thnk Award: MFS Foxes
Innovate Award: Landroids
PTC Design Award: Watts Up
Connect Award: Say Watt?
MOEtivate Award: MOE
Attending Teams:
Team #
Team Name
7
Tactical Sheep
61
OZONE
110
MFS Foxes
118
Steel Hornets
204
Bruin Tech
205
Screw Loose
237
MFS Hawks
365
MOE
395
Archmere Robauktics
403
Charter Force
404
Charter Impulse
405
Charter Blue Crew
2897
Grizzl-E
3077
Zinc Iridium
3489
Minds In [...]
Posted in Competitions, Events, FTC Tags: 2012, Bowled Over, Delaware FTC State Championship, Landroids, results, teams Comments OffDecember 19th, 2011
NJ FTC State Championship, 2/12/12
[ February 12, 2012; ] Location: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Attending teams (as of 1/19/12, subject to update based on qualifier results):
Team #
Team Name
110
MFS Foxes
118
Steel Hornets
205
Screw Loose
207
Critical Mass
237
MFS Hawks
248
Fatal Errow
755
Greenwave
2753
Team Overdrive
2825
SWAG
2864
Bounty Hunters
3415
Lancers
3567
Fear the Gear
3568
Ice Wolves
3539
Say Watt?
3774
Hive Voltage
3951
Suffern Cyborgs
4077
M.A.S.H.
4102
CHS Cougars
4220
Landroids
4248
Ionions
4301
Tigers
4311
Watt the Hex
4326
Basement Lions
4347
NanoGurus
4390
FTC Storm Robotics
4486
Mad Science
4500
MFS Falcons
4890
Hive Voltage 2.0
4936
Sparks
5078
Omegatron
5169
Watts Up?
5205
SyBorgs
5212
Megahertz
5354
Oratory Prep
5665
Calaliers
Posted in Competitions, Events, FTC Tags: 2012, Bowled Over, Landroids, NJ FTC, State Championship, teams Comments OffMay 12th, 2011
Landroids featured in Moonbots 2.0 promotion
The 2nd annual Moonbots challenge sponsored by Google, X PRIZE Foundation, Mindstorms and Wire Magazine is now underway!
This new 2011 season is dubbed a the “Moonbots 2.0“. While team Landroids was at the FTC World Championship in St. Louis, the X PRIZE Foundation had interviewed us as the 2010 Moonbots grand prize winner, and also [...]
May 11th, 2011
NJ FTC State “Get Over It” Championship Video
To document the NJ “Garden State Rumble” FTC State Championship for the “Get Over It” challenge, team Landroids and Livingston Robotics Club have produced a video for the off-season FTC outreach and promotions. Thank you to all of the NJ World Championship teams for contributing team photos for this video.
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Posted in Competitions, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2010, 2011, Get over it, Landroids, NJ FTC Garden State Rumble, State Championship Comments OffMay 11th, 2011
Monty Madness “Extreme Game”
[ May 21, 2011; ] Location: Montgomery Township High School, Skillman, NJ.
“Get Over It” game during the morning’s Qualification Matches, with a robot “Skills Competition” to show off what the robot can do, (Balancing, Baton Retrieval, Goal Dragging, etc). Awards are given to the First and Second Place Skills Competition winners.
The “Extreme” version of the “Get Over it” game will not be [...]
May 2nd, 2011
Landroids won Innovate Award at 2011 FTC World Championship
In our rookie FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) season, Landroids has received the prestigious Rockwell Collins Innovate Award, and was nominated for the Think Award at the 2011 FTC World Championship. This event was held at the America’s Center and Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO from April 27-30, attended by the top 128 teams from countries such as [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, FTC, Innovate Award, Landroids, magnet baton, NJ, St. Louis, World Championship No Comments »May 2nd, 2011
Landroids won 1st place State eCYBERMISSION Award
Landroids has won the 2011 1st place NJ State 9th grade eCYBERMISSION award on April 18, 2011. (See eCYBERMISSION Press Release).
This is the 2nd year that the Landroids has participated in the US Army sponsored web-base eCYBERMISSION science competition. In 2010, the Landroids won the 8th grade 1st place National Award. This year, our team [...]
Posted in Competitions Tags: 2011, beach erosion, eCYBERMISSION, Landroids, New Jersey, State winner Comments OffApril 9th, 2011
Google Science Fair Interviewed team Landroids
It seemed like an odd choice for Google to be interested in interviewing the Landroids,…. in addition to talking with several renowned scientists from around the world to promote the Google Science Fair. After all, isn’t Landroids just a neighbor robotics team who plays with LEGO?
Somehow, Google knew that team Landroids is not just about [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC, Journal Tags: 2011, eCYBERMISSION, Google, Google Science Fair, Landroids Comments OffApril 1st, 2011
Google Science Fair Deadline
[ April 4, 2011; ] Submission of Google Science Fair is due 11:59 PM. Good Luck to all who participate.
February 16th, 2011
NJ Garden State Rumble – 2011 FTC Championship 2/19/11
(Excerpt from NJ FTC Press & Media Notice and Release, February 10, 2011)
On Saturday, February 19th, sporting events at the NJIT Fleisher Athletic Center in Newark, NJ will give way to 48 high school robotics teams as they compete at the 2011 New Jersey FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) State Championship.
The event will run from 10 [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, championship, FTC, Garden State Rumble, NJ, results, Team list, winner list No Comments »February 2nd, 2011
Landroids won Think Award at Hudson Valley, 1/30/11
One week after the Delaware Diamond State FTC Championship, Landroids once again competed at another FTC State Championship. This time, it was the New York Hudson Valley State Championship held at Pace University on January 30, 2011.
The Landroids was nominated for the highest Inspire Award, won the Think Award, and ranked #3 out of 36 [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, FTC, Hudson Valley, Inspire Award, Landroids, NY No Comments »January 23rd, 2011
Landroids won Diamond State FTC Inspire Award! 1/22/11
After a grueling week of robot redesign and an extremely competitive tournament at the Delaware Diamond State FTC Championship on 1/22/11, Landroids won the highest award given by FTC, the Inspire Award, which made Landroids the first New Jersey FTC team eligible to compete in the 2011 FTC World Championship in St. Louis, MO at [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, DE Diamond State Championship, FTC, Inspire Award, Landroids No Comments »December 30th, 2010
NJ FTC Snow Day Qualifier #3
[ January 15, 2011; ] Location: Hightstown High School, Hightstown, NJ
Event free and open to public
Applying Teams for the Qualifier
3944
Team Mercury
Hightstown High School
138
Heavy Metal Robotix
Spotswood HS
220
Steinert
Steinert High School
221
Steinert
Steinert High School
609
CJCP cougars
Central Jersey College Prep [...]
December 22nd, 2010
Landroids won NJ FTC Qualifier Inspire Award 12/18/10
Landroids received the Inspire Award and Winning Alliance Award at the NJ FIRST Tech Challenge “Frozen Frenzy” qualify on December 18, 2010, held at our hometown Livingston High School. As a rookie FTC team this year, the journey to get to this point since September, has taken a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication.
Early [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC, Journal Tags: 2010, Frozen Frenzy qualifier, FTC, Landroids, NJ Comments OffSeptember 3rd, 2010
Landroids Won Grand Prize Moonbots Challenge!
After four months of Moonbots competition, on September 1, 2010, the X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group announced team Landroids as the Moonbots grand prize winner, and will be invited to Denmark to visit the LEGO headquarter plus receiving $1,300 for the FTC registration kit!
See here for the 2010 Moonbots winner and award list. [...]
August 23rd, 2010
Moonbots Live Webcast, 8/24/10
Landroids Moonbots robot mission live webcast on August 24, 2010 at 3 PM ET.
A three-minute long, one program, fully autonomous robot mission run, transmitted via Skype to the MoonBots judges at a pre-designated time. Each robot also needs to equip with an on-board camera with time stamp to record the actual run, then upload the footage [...]
August 22nd, 2010
Landroids MoonBots Documentary Submission, 8/22/10
A four months long Moonbots Challenge season condensed down to a 5-minute video. This is part of the MoonBots final challenge: a Documentary Video, Live Robot Mission Webcast and the Website Blog.
For more information about the Landroids’ Moonbots design and competition, see the Lunar Landroids website.
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June 26th, 2010
Landroids won eCYBERMISSION 1st Place National Award!
Landroids is the 2010 eCYBERMISSION National Judging Educational Event (NJEE) 1st place 8th grade National Winner!
This US Army sponsored free web-base science competition has awarded the Landroids $32,000 of EE bond on June 25, 2010.
See our Facebook postings for more event photos and videos and US Army’s press release.
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Posted in Competitions, FLL Tags: 2010, eCYBERMISSION, Landroids, national winner, NJEE No Comments »June 23rd, 2010
Landroids advanced to Moonbots Phase 2!
Landroids is one of the 20 teams selected to proceed to Moonbots Phase 2 challenge!
A total of 212 teams from 16 countries participated in the Moonbots Challenge from April 15 to May 28, 2010, each team was to produce a research video blog, conceptual robot design rendering using LEGO Digital Designer and create a blog [...]
June 9th, 2010
eCYBERMISSION Spotlight on Landroids
Read about Landroids’ team spotlight on the eCYBERMISSION blog and learn about our Deer Avoidance project. See other 2010 regional winners in the May and June issues of the eCYBERMISSION blog.
Posted in Competitions Tags: 2010, 8th grade, eCYBERMISSION, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, northeast Comments OffMay 9th, 2010
Landroids joining the Moonbots Challenge
Better late than never…Landroids has decided to sign up for the international Moonbots challenge with an upcoming Phase 1 deadline of May 28, 2010!
MoonBots is a Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge. It is a joint venture between The X PRIZE Foundation, Google Inc., LEGO Systems, National Instruments, and Wired’s GeekDad, to create an [...]
April 26th, 2010
Landroids won 1st Place eCYBERMISSION Regional Award!
It is not all about robots!
Landroids’ FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Smart Move “Deer Avoidance” research project has won the 2010 eCYBERMISSION 8th grade Northeast Regional 1st place Award!
Landroids will be one of the 16 out of 3,306 (grades 6 to 9) teams in the country to compete at the National Judging & Educational Event (NJ&EE) during the [...]
Posted in Competitions Tags: 2010, Deer Avoidance, eCYBERMISSION, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Smart Move No Comments »April 11th, 2010
FLL Core Value Team Nomination
Landroids was nominated as a FIRST LEGO League Core Value team. Although not attending the 2010 World Festival, our team was recognized as demonstrated FLL Core Values throughout the season and was nominated to attend. However, Landroids coaches and team member will be at the the World Festival as FLL volunteers and FTC team mentors. Look [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL, Journal Tags: 2010, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, World Festival No Comments »April 4th, 2010
Grand Challenge Stories
Team Landrioids’ 2008-09 FIRST LEGO League Climate Connections research project, “Beach Erosion” was nominated for the 2010 Grand Challenge for Engineering Award.
The Grand Challenge stories nomination is opened to all students from middle school to post graduate studies, institutions or organizations, who have made a contribution to, or a part of, one of the 14 [...]
Posted in Competitions Tags: 2009, 2010, beach erosion, Climate Connection, Grand Challenge Stories, Landroids No Comments »December 15th, 2009
Landroids won NJ FLL State 1st place Robot Design, 12/12/09
On December 12th, Forty-six teams from 9 qualifying tournaments throughout the State gathered at the 2009 New Jersey FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Smart Move State Championship tournament at Mt. Olive High School. Five teams from Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) participated in this all-day event. Landroids #109 took the 1st place Robot Design Award while Thunderclan [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL Tags: 2009, Atoms Family, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, Landroids, Mt. Olive, Nano Guru, New Jersey, NJ, Smart Move, State tournament Comments OffDecember 6th, 2009
Montclair and Sparta Qualifiers LRC Results
Four Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) teams attended the Montclair and Sparta qualifying events on 12/4/09 and 12/5/09. The all-girls team Landrias received the Champion’s Award, team SciBotech received a Judge’s Award, while team r2d2 took home the Project Award. All in all, five out of seven Livingston Robotics Club FLL teams (Landroids, Landrias, Alpha Force, [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landrias, Livingston Robotics Club, Montclair, Qualifying, SciBoTech, Sparta, Technophiles Comments OffNovember 23rd, 2009
NJ FLL Qualifying Event Results
NYC/NJ FIRST community has recently revamped its website to post the latest information in JFLL, FLL, FTC and FRC. Therefore, to see a list of participating teams at various qualifying tournaments and the winners from these events, please go to nycnjfirst.org
November 23rd, 2009
Three LRC wins at Hillsborough
Three Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) teams attended the Hillsborough qualifying event on 11/21/09. Landroids #109, Thunderclan #3375 and Alpha Force #3360 each won the Champion’s Award, 1st place research and 1st place technical presentation respectively. These teams also placed #3, #7 and #8 in robot performance out of 23 attending teams.
Landroids had encountered major difficulties [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL, LRC Tags: 2009, Alpha Force, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Hillsborough, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, LRC, New Jersey, NJ, qualifier, Smart Move, Thunderclan No Comments »May 19th, 2009
Landroids’ Press and Photos
It has been an exciting week coming home from Ohio. First, we had to make up all the missing homework, tests and final exam. Then there were many hours spent with the reporters. In between, some of us managed to squeeze in a fishing tournament, while all of us got to munch on the [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL Tags: Alternative Press, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, HCHY, Landroids, Livingston, NJ, Ohio, Star Ledger, US Open Comments Off
