Landroids was nominated as a FIRST LEGO League Core Value team. Read more »
Lancers won NYC FTC Inspire Award!
March 14th, 2010
Lancers FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) team from Livingston High School, NJ won the NYC FTC Inspire Award on 3/13/10 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Read more »
NJ FRC Tournament 3/7/10
March 8th, 2010
For pictures from the New Jersey FIRST Robotics Competition 3/7/10, visit Landroids’ Facebook for our photo collections and team updates.
NJ FTC State Championship Volunteer
February 10th, 2010
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. Read more »
Liberty Science Center Eweek Robotics Exhibition 2010
January 24th, 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.
Landroids FLL Team Video (8/07 – 12/09)
December 21st, 2009
Three seasons (2-1/2 years) of FIRST LEGO League, a life time of best friends since kindergarten. Year-round of hard work, research, playing, exhibitions, competitions and FLL outreach.
NJ FLL State Tournament 12/12/09
December 15th, 2009
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 #3375 from LRC covered the 2nd place Robot Design Award. Read more »
LRC in the News
December 2nd, 2009
For the season-long newsletter coverages on Livingston Robotics Club, see:
The AlternativePress, November 30, 2009
HCHY of Livingston, LRC news
Three LRC wins at Hillsborough
November 23rd, 2009
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 with the overhead flood lights which had severely affected the robot light sensor readings and navigation onto the bridge. Nevertheless, the team managed to make some last minute robot and program modifications to gain some scores back in the last round.
(l to r) Alpha Force, Landroids, Thunderclan at Hillsborough Qualifier 11/21/09
These winnings at the Hillsborough tournament have been a great season opening for Livingston Robotics Club. Three other teams — r2d2 #436, SciBotech #2385, and Landrias #3724 — will compete at Montclair Qualifier on December 4th; and Technophiles #3088 will compete at Sparta Qualifier on December 5th. Winning teams from these regional qualifying tournaments will advance onto the New Jersey State Championship Tournament at Mt. Olive High School in Flanders on December 12th. Our LRC Jr. FLL team, Spongebots, will be joining everyone there for a “Smart Move” exhibition.
For Hillsborough FLL event photos, click here.
LRC on LTV
November 2nd, 2009
Livingston Robotics Club teams will be seen on Livingston Television on November 15, 2009.
Livingston Television (LTV) will produce its second annual LIVE telecast, “A Celebration of Livingston,” on Sunday, November 15 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Senior/Community Center and will air LIVE. Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) has been invited to be interviewed during this live broadcast. Representing our Club for this event will be our youngest teams, the Spongebots and r2d2.
Spongebots is the only Junior FIRST LEGO League (Jr.FLL) team in LRC, consists of three kindergarteners and three first graders from Harrison School. The team has been working on demonstrating how a computer and a cat would move from one place to another, and they build models and write robotics programs using the LEGO WeDo robotics platform.
r2d2 is made up of six 4th grade boys, and it is coached by a group of team moms. The team has been working on “Walk 4 GREEN & B Fit” as their research project, and received extensive robotics training from Storming Robots Center. r2d2 will be providing a live demonstration of this year’s Smart Move robot missions.
The LTV broadcast can be seen on Comcast Channel 34 and Verizon Fios Channel 26, and will feature many other Livingston community members and organizations, with a live studio audience of Livingston residents.
“Gearing Up”
October 14th, 2009
Watch this one-hour documentary chronicles behind-the-scenes drama and excitement leading up to the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition. Teams receive identical robot kits with no instructions and have just six weeks to build a robot capable of performing specific tasks.
The documentary follows four teams through their regional competitions. Miss Daisy is a seasoned team from Ambler, Pennsylvania. RoboDoves is a small, all-girl rookie team from Baltimore, Maryland. Rambotics is a team of teenagers incarcerated at the Ridge View Academy correctional facility for boys in Watkins, Colorado. And Ratchet Rockers is a group of suburban kids from Wentzville, Missouri, near St. Louis.
All of the young people and their mentors demonstrate the ingenuity, determination and teamwork required to compete in FIRST Robotics – “the varsity sport of the mind.”
For New Jersey viewers, this documentary will be shown on NJN on November 2, 2009, 9:00 PM, and repeat on NJN2 for the remainder week, check local listing and time.
NJN1 Verizon Fio channel 515 or Comcast channel 261
NJN2 Verizon Fio channel 476 or Comcast channel 262
For airing schedule outside of NJ, see listing and time.
Collaboration and Mentoring Thailand FLL
October 7th, 2009
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 and students to develop programming and other non-technical skills with integrated subject areas in one program. In April 2009, Thailand signed an agreement to be one the latest FLL international partners with a planned national tournament to be held in Bangkok on December 12, 2009. The Champion’s Award winner will represent Thailand in FLL Open International Championship which will be held on May 6, 2010 in Taiwan. The organizer, Gammco (Thailand) Co., Ltd., anticipates having 20 FLL teams in 2009 as a pilot year and more than 50 teams for next year.
Upon learning of the first FLL tournament in Thailand, Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) started a collaborative project with FLL Thailand organizer in June 2009 to provide assistance in organizing the first FLL tournament in Thailand. With many new FLL teams that need to learn different aspects of FLL competition in a relatively short period of time, there is a need to provide teams with as much additional training resources as possible. With this collaboration, the 2009 1st place US Open Champion’s Award team Landroids has agreed to offer the training materials that were used in the 2009 New Jersey FLL summer orientation sessions for the Thailand teams to use as a platform to jump start the team training. These training materials were compiled by the five Landroids members based on their experience and specialties, in a “Kids teaching Kids” format to prepare the new FLL teams for the competitions.
LRC member, Surasit Nithikasem, painstakingly translated over 300 slides of PowerPoint presentations from English to Thai; and edited them to overcome the language and cultural differences. These training materials cover both technical and non-technical aspects of FLL competitions, which will be beneficial to the teams in Thailand (as well as all other new FLL teams), not only to get an overall picture of FLL, but also on how to excel in the competitions and to attain important life-skills from participating in FLL.
For more information, see Landroids’ FLL team training web page dedicated to the Thailand teams and also the official Thailand FLL site.
