Talk about multi-tasking to the max! Somehow, Landroids managed to compete in a FTC Championship, host a robotics exhibition, setup a new clubhouse, on camera for a Google interview, submit for a science competition, participate in a FTC outreach, and be featured in an online magazine, all in two week’s time!
Landroids competed at the NJ [...]
Archive for the ‘Outreach’ Category
March 14th, 2011
Championship, Exhibition, Outreach, Competition
Posted in FTC, Journal, Outreach 
Tags: FTC outreach, Google Science Fair, Landroids, Liberty Science Center Eweek Robotics Exhibition 
Comments OffMarch 12th, 2011
LRC Jr. FLL Expo 2011
[ May 28, 2011; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Livingston Robotics Club Jr. FIRST LEGO League “Body Forward” Expo
The 2nd annual outdoor Jr. FLL Expo hosted by Livingston Robotics Club & team Landroids as part of the Youth Appreciation Week celebration.
16 NJ Jr. FLL teams are attending. For more information, see Livingston Robotics Club website.
For 2010 Jr. FLL Expo photos, see Landroids Facebook.
Location: Livingston [...]
March 5th, 2011
NJ FRC Tournament Exhibition 3/5/11
[ March 5, 2011; 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Landroids FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Exhibition at NJ FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC) Regional Championship.
Location: Sun National Bank Center: Route 129 on the corner of Hamilton Avenue and South Broad Street in the heart of Trenton, NJ.
Time: 9 AM to 3 PM
February 27th, 2011
Google Interview 2/27/11
[ February 27, 2011; 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. ] Location: Livingston Robotics Club, Livingston, NJ
For details, see The Alternative Press
For behind the scenes photos, see Landroids Facebook.
February 14th, 2011
Liberty Science Center Eweek Exhibition 2011
The 4th Annual Liberty Science Center Engineers Week Exhibition, hosted by FTC team Landroids #4220 will be held at Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ on Monday, February 21, 2011, from 9 AM to 4 PM.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Engineers Week, and following the tradition of inviting the top New Jersey FIRST LEGO League, FIRST [...]
January 11th, 2011
Landroids Exhibited at Google Science Fair, 1/11/11
Team Landroids attended the Google Science Fair (GSF) announcement event at the Google’s NYC Headquarter on January 11, 2011. What an exciting and inspiring day!
(For Landroids’ photos, click here; for official event photos, click here; for video interview with Dean Kamen, click here).
Google has partnered with CERN, the LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American [...]
January 1st, 2011
NJ FLL “Body Forward” State Championship Video
A Livingston Robotics Club documentary of the 2010 New Jersey FIRST LEGO League State Championship and Jr FLL Expo held on December 28, 2010 at Mt. Olive High School, New Jersey.
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Posted in FLL, FTC, Outreach Tags: Body Forward, FLL, Jr. FLL, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, State Championship, Video Comments OffOctober 26th, 2010
MoonBots Exhibition + FTC Scrimmage at RoboFest, 10/23/10
Landroids hosted the MoonBots Exhibition at the 1st annual NJ RoboFest as part of the NJ Science and Engineering Festival on October 23, 2010. We also participated in the NJ FTC scrimmage, tested our robot for the first time. Talk about a double duty busy day! (See the LRC documentary video)
On Friday night, the night [...]
September 28th, 2010
Landroids visited the LEGO Group at Denmark
As a part of the 1st place grand prize international Google X PRIZE MoonBots Challenge winner, the Landroids was invited by the LEGO Group to visit the LEGO headquarter at Billund, Denmark. It was a fun-packed, 3-day, 3-night, a chance of the life time trip last week.
Thursday, September 24, 2010
We got out of school [...]
May 31st, 2010
Livingston Robotics Expo Photos & News, 5/29/10
Thank you, all you participants, volunteers and exhibitors who made the Livingston Jr. FLL Expo and Bike Rodeo a success on May 29, 2010! Photos from the event are posted on Landroids Facebook. Be our fan and keep up with the latest news and photos! For Jr. FLL Expo award results, click here, also see [...]
April 20th, 2010
Volunteering at 2010 FLL World Festival
What can be more rewarding than competing at the World Festival? Volunteering of course! (Also see team member’s reflection on this experience).
After attending so many regional, State, national and international tournaments, team Landroids decided to contribute back to the FIRST Community as volunteers at the 2010 FIRST LEGO League World Festival, which was held at [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2010, Atlanta, bridge, championship, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, GA, Landroids, Livingston, NJ, Robot, Smart Move, World Festival No Comments »April 19th, 2010
Monty Madness 5/15/10
[ May 15, 2010; ] Host by Montgomery Township High School, the 5th annual Monty Madness event is a post season scrimmage for the NJ FIRST teams.
When: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Where: Montgomery Township High School , 1016 Route 601, Skillman, NJ 08558-1799
NJ FRC & FTC post season scrimmage 8AM – 5 PM (Lancers)
NJ FLL Exhibition 11 AM – 3 PM (Landroids, [...]
Posted in Events, FLL, Outreach Tags: 2010, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Lancers, Landrias, Landroids, Livingston, Montgomery, Monty Madness, NJ No Comments »February 11th, 2010
Liberty Science Center Eweek Robotics Exhibition 2010
The 3rd annual Liberty Science Center Engineers Week Robotics Exhibition host by the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team Landroids #109 will be held on President’s Day, Monday, February 15, 2010, 10 AM – 3 PM.
See Team Landroids Facebook and nycnjfirst.org website for event photos.
This event showcases the top NJ teams from the 2009/10 season. [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2010, Engineers Week, Exhibition, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, FTC, Jr. FLL, Landroids, Liberty Science Center, LSC, New Jersey, NJ Comments OffFebruary 10th, 2010
NJ FTC State Championship Volunteer, 2/7/10
Team Landroids spent the Super Bowl Sunday (2/7/10) volunteered as queuers and field re-setters at the New Jersey FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) State tournament. Our team had fun watching the Livingston high school FTC team Lancers compete in their first official FTC tournament, and say hi to some of the FLL veteran teams such as [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2010, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, First Tech Challange, FLL, FTC, Hot Shot, Landroids, Livingston, NJ 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 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 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 OffFebruary 17th, 2009
FIRST LEGO League at Liberty Science Center 2/16/09
How do you get six NJ top FLL teams in one room for an all-day play date?
At Liberty Science Center FIRST LEGO League Exhibition on 2/16/09, these teams were proud to present their Climate Connections research projects to hundreds of visitors, and had multiple aliance races.
(2009 FLL photos, Eweek volunteers photos, Legomaster photos).
Granted, it usually took more [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, Landrias, Landroids, Liberty Science Center, Roboinvaders, Robot Rangers, Say Watt?, SciBoTechs Comments OffJune 3rd, 2008
Livingston Town Council Presentation, 6/2/08
[ June 2, 2008; 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Landroids Power Puzzle project presentation and robot performance demonstration for the Town Council. Landroids was presented by the Mayor a Citation/Proclamation recognizing the team’s achievement at the 2008 World Festival.
March 3rd, 2008
NJ Regional FRC – FLL Exhibition, 3/1/08
FLL team Landroids was at the NJ FIRST Robotic Competition (FRC) Regional at the Soveriegn Arena Bank in Trenton on 3/1/08. We demonstrated our robot and presented the Power Puzzle project to the visitors. It was an honor to have the President of US FIRST and the NJ General Assembly Deputy Speaker, as well as many [...]
February 19th, 2008
Liberty Science Center Eweek Exhibition, 2/18/08
The 1st annual FIRST Lego League (FLL) Exhibition during Engineers Week at Liberty Science Center was a great success! Several NJ elite FLL teams joined the Landroids for a day of project presentation, robotic demonstration and alliance races.
Renewable Robot Rangers, Nano Gurus, Say Watt, Energy Fusion, MORS and “Legomaster” Eric Sophie were all there to help [...]
