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December 21st, 2009
Landroids FLL Team Video (8/07 – 12/09)
Posted in FLL, Journal 
Tags: 2008, 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, Smart Move, team, US Open, Video, World Festival 
Comments OffDecember 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 8th, 2009
NJ FIRST LEGO League “Smart Move” State Championship Tournament
[ December 12, 2009; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Mt. Olive High School
18 Corey Road, Flanders, NJ 07836
Tournament Schedule
8:00 AM Pits Open & Team Registration
9:00 AM Judging starts
9:30 AM Practice round signups required
11:45 AM Team meeting
12:00 PM Lunch break
1:00 PM Opening ceremonies
1:15 PM Seeding matches begin
4:30 PM Closing ceremonies and trophy presentations
The morning judging sessions (for Robot Design, Research Project and Teamwork) are [...]
December 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 »October 7th, 2009
Collaboration and Mentoring Thailand FLL
Since 2002, K-12 curriculum standards in Thailand have continued to be modernized with a goal to include extra-curricular activities to encourage hands-on learning experience that can be related to real-life situations. One of the objectives is to enhance technology education
FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotics program had been considered for Thailand in order to encourage teachers [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, LEGO, New Jersey, NJ, orientation, presentation, summer, Thailand Comments OffOctober 6th, 2009
Livingston Eco Fair Project Presentation, 10/4/09
Representing the Livingston Robotics Club, Landroids and the sister team Landrias had presented their Smart Move projects to the community as a part of the October 4, 2009 Livingston Eco Fair exhibition. At this town-wide event, both teams showcased their past and present research projects, demonstrated that the FIRST LEGO League is not just about [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, Eco Fair, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landrias, Landroids, Livingston Mall, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, presentation, project, Smart Move Comments OffOctober 1st, 2009
NJ FLL Qualifying Event Registration is now opened
The NJ FLL qualifying event registration is opened from 10/1/09 to 10/16/09.
To register a qualifying event, go to https://gofll.usfirst.org/ to log in your team.
Then click the upper left tap “Events”
On the My Events page you just opened, scroll all the way down to find the NJ event group in the left column, click on “New [...]
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, New Jersey, NJ, Qualifying Comments OffSeptember 30th, 2009
NJ Qualifying Event (Montclair – on Friday night)
[ December 4, 2009; 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Montclair (12 teams)
Union Congregational Church
176 Cooper Ave
Montclair, NJ 07043
USA
Posted in Events, FLL Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, NJ, Qualifying, Rowan, Sparta Comments OffSeptember 22nd, 2009
Smart Move Score Sheet in Thai
As part of the continue and collaborative effort to translate Techbrick‘s Smart Move score sheet to different world languages, Surasit Nithikasem from Livingston Robotics Club and FLL Thailand (they translated the rules) had translated the score sheet in Thai for the 30 some start up FLL teams in Thaland .
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, LRC, score sheet, Smart Move, TechBrick, Thai, Thailand Comments OffSeptember 20th, 2009
Chinese Robot Mission Score Sheets
The TechBrick FLL Smart Move Robot Mission Worksheet has now been translated to traditional and simplified Chinese. Thanks to the Landroids parent William Dong for making the translations. The worksheet can help the Chinese speaking teams to quickly track and tally up the robot scores. For more TechBrick FLL resources, click here.
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, Chinese, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Mission, NJ, Robot, score sheet, Smart Move, TechBrick Comments OffSeptember 13th, 2009
Smart Move Mission Video
A new FLL Smart Move mission video has been strung together and posted on YouTube (with narrative).
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, NJ, Smart Move, Video Comments OffSeptember 3rd, 2009
Smart Move Challenge Release
Smart Move: Transforming Transportation
The waiting is over! The FIRST LEGO League Smart Move challenge release: September 3, 2009, at 12 noon Easter Time.
Can FIRST LEGO League teams transform the way we look at transportation? The key to the 2009 “Smart Move” Challenge is accessing people, places, goods and services in the safest, most efficient [...]
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, LEGO, NJ, Smart Move Comments OffAugust 7th, 2009
FLL Oreintation – Part V Public Speaking & Preparing for Judging Sessions, 8/6/09
Part 5 and also the final NJ FLL orientation workshop,”Public Speaking and Prepare for Judging Sessions”, was held on 8/6/09. It covered the importance of practicing speaking and presenting in public, and provided tips on preparing for the judging sessions. Various participants had to think on their feet to come up with some clever answers [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, Add new tag, Judging, kids, Landroids, LEGO, Livingston Mall, Livingston Robotics Club, mentoring, New Jersey, NJ, NJ FLL, orientation, Public Speaking, Smart Move, summer Comments OffAugust 5th, 2009
FLL Orientation – Part IV Documentation & Robot Performance, 7/30/09
Part 4 of the FLL summer orientation “Documentation & Robot Performance” held on 7/30/09 discussed the importance of note taking, how to prepare a team information sheet and team brochure, plus many tips on compiling checklists to be well-prepared for the robot performance competition. Teams got quizzed on how much information they retained by just [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, Docmentation, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston, NJ, orientation, Robot Performance Comments OffJuly 29th, 2009
FLL Orientation – Part III Teamwork & Robot Mission Strategy, 7/23/09
Part III of the FLL summer orientation “Teamwork & Robot Mission Strategy” on 7/23/09 was again an interactive evening with team activities. During the first half of the workshop we talked about the importance of teamwork and acted out several common “blamestorming” scenarios, which got some good laughs. Each team then was to build the [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, mentoring, Mission, NJ, orientation, strategy, summer, teamwork, workshop Comments OffJuly 21st, 2009
FLL Orientation – Part II Project Research, 7/16/09
Part II of the FLL summer orientation “Project Research” covered 10 steps on how to do a research project, from pre-season all the way to the competition. In a fun and interactive way, teams learned to understand the FLL requirements, brainstorm and summarize findings, and
develop an innovative solution and create their own presentation styles. [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, New Jersey, orientation, project research, summer Comments OffJuly 10th, 2009
FLL Orientation – Part I Robot Design & Programming, 7/9/09
The NJ FLL summer orientation series is on!
Part I for “Robot Design and Programming” was held on 7/9/09. Landroids’s lead designer and programmer, Karlin, prepared and conducted a 2-hr presentation discussing various types of platforms, gears, gear ratios, wheels, and sensors, plus a live demonstration of NXT-G and Robolab programming short cuts and [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL orientation, Landroids, NJ, Robot Design & Programming Comments OffJuly 1st, 2009
NJ Qualifying Events (Rowan, Sparta)
[ December 5, 2009; ] Rowan (12 teams)
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro NJ 08028
(for Delaware Championship)
Sparta (12 teams)
Pope John XXXIII Regional High School
28 Andover Rd., Sparta NJ 07871
July 1st, 2009
NJ Qualifying Event – Metuchen
[ November 14, 2009; ] Metuchen (24 teams)
St. Joseph Regional High School
145 Plainfield Ave.,
Metuchen, NJ
July 1st, 2009
NJ Qualifying Events (Hamilton, Hillsborough, Bergen)
[ November 21, 2009; ] Steinert (24 teams)
Steinert High School
2900 Klockner Road
Hamilton NJ 08690 US
Hillsborough (24 teams)
Hillsborough High School
466 Raider Blvd
Hillsborough NJ 08844 US
Bergen (12 teams)
Emil A. Cavallini Middle School
392 West Saddle River Rd.
Upper Saddle River NJ 07458
June 27th, 2009
Livingston FTC Scrimmage, 6/27/09
It was great fun today at the Livingston FTC Scrimmage to meet up with the FTC mentoring teams, the FTC new comers and our old friends from FLL. Landroids spent the day volunteering and participated in the FTC alliance games, going head-to-head with the FLL graduates such as RoboInvaders and Nano Guru. Special thanks [...]
June 12th, 2009
FLL Promo Videos
Check out Landroids in these latest FLL Promo videos (on vimeo.com)
FLL 2009 Promo 001, FLL 2009 Promo 002
June 8th, 2009
Attention all recent FLL Graduates:
NJ FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) will be hosting a series of summer Outreach Scrimmages. First stop, the northern region event will be held at Livingston High School on June 27, 2009.
For those FLL teams who are ready to start an FTC team, this “Outreach Scrimmage” is a perfect pre-season opportunity to learn what FTC [...]
Posted in FLL, FTC Tags: 2009, First Tech Challenge, FTC, Landroids, Livingston High School, NJ, outreach, scrimmage Comments OffJune 7th, 2009
FLL Orientation 2 – Project Research
[ July 16, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] How to conduct project research, read through the FLL resources, understand background information, select team topic, interview experts, writing essays, ways to present, compiling information into a script, footnote, practice, design bulletin board and props.
Location: Livingston Community Center (lower level), 204 Hillside Ave., Livingston, NJ
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 OffMay 11th, 2009
Landroids won 1st Place Champion’s Award at 2009 FLL US Open!
Team Landroids, represented New Jersey, competed in the 2009 FIRST LEGO League United States Open Championship held in Dayton, Ohio from 5/7/09 – 5/9/09 (results, 5 pages), winning teams. With 9 months of hard work and dedication, our team of five 7th graders took home:
Landroids at 2009 FLL US Open
1st place Champion’s Award, which is the most prestigious [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL Tags: Battelle, beach erosion, Champion, Dayton, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, Founders Award, Iolani Roboraiders, Landroids, Livingston, New Jersey, Ohio, robot alliance, US Open, Wright Paterson Air Force Base Founder's Award, ZBOTs Comments OffMay 2nd, 2009
Community Links
Landroids’s website and Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) are now linked with HCHY (Healthy Communithy Healthy Youth of Livingston) and Alternative Press (an online community newspaper).
By connecting with the local Youth Organization, Landroids and Livingston Robotics Club can operate as a non-profit organization, develop contacts and communication with local officials, have up-to-date newsblasts on the [...]
Posted in FLL, LRC Tags: Alternative Press, HCHY, Landroids, Livingston, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ Comments OffApril 2nd, 2009
Livingston FIRST LEGO League Information Session, 5/4/09
[ March 4, 2009; ] Get ready for the new FIRST LEGO League season 2009-10 Smart Move! It is never too early to think about FLL, especially when the FLL team registration starts on May 4.
A FIRST LEGO League (FLL) information session will be held on Saturday, April 18th, 2009 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Livingston Public [...]
Posted in Events, FLL, Outreach Tags: April, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, information session, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, LRC, NJ Comments Off
