Posts Tagged ‘2010’

Landroids invited to X PRIZE Exploration Prize Group press event, 10/6/11

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On 10/6/11, team Landroids was invited to attend the X PRIZE Foundation press conference held at the historic NYC Explorer’s Club, as the 2010 MoonBots champions and young ambassadors of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. (For more event photos and details, see Landroids’ Facebook).
In this press event, X PRIZE announced their new three-year, [...]

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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Landroids won NJ FTC Qualifier Inspire Award 12/18/10

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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 [...]

Landroids Moonbots Exhibition 10/23/10

[ October 23, 2010; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Where: Clifton High School, 333 Colfax Ave., Clifton, NJ

Landroids will display our grand prize winning Moonbots Robot during the RoboFest as part of the 2010 NJ Science and Engineering Festival.  The limited edition Moonbots field will be opened to all autonomous or Bluetooth controlled Mindstorms NXT robots to roam this simulated lunar surface.  You can also just [...]

NJ FTC Workshop 8/14/10

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It wasn’t easy, but we managed.  It was the first time this summer when we were able to round up most of the team members (except for Brian who is out of the country) to attend the NJ FTC workshop. Everyone has either been on vacation, attending summer schools or summer camps, or taking turn [...]

Landroids won eCYBERMISSION 1st Place National Award!

Landroids at eCYBERMISSION NJEE 2010 Award Ceremony

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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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 [...]

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.

New Lunar Landroids Website

Lunar Landroids is a special Landroids blog released on May 28, 2010, dedicated to the 2010 Moonbots Challenge.  Our team documented all the sensor testings (Gyro, EOPD, Compass, Accelerometer, IR Link, Ultrasonic, etc.), robot design, LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) renderings, and the process of making our video essay during our 5 weeks of Phase 1 design. [...]

NJ FTC Livingston Outreach Scrimmage

[ June 12, 2010; 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Livingston High School, Livingston, NJ (free and open to all)
An info session on starting an FTC team and mini-competitions using Tetrix training robots and full-scale FTC robots. Topics covered include: Benefits of a Robotics Program, How to Gather School Support, Team Formation, Fundraising, and How to be Coach/Mentor. For more information, contact Vince Frascella @ Vincent.Frascella@baesystems.com

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 [...]

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 [...]

Volunteering at 2010 FLL World Festival

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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 [...]

Monty Madness 5/15/10

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[ 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, [...]

Livingston Jr. FLL Expo

[ May 29, 2010; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Livingston Robotics Club is hosting a Jr. FLL Expo as part of the Livingston Youth Appreciation Week celebration.
Location: Town Oval, 357 South Livingston Ave., NJ 07039
Date: Saturday, May 29, 2010
Time: 10 AM to 3 PM
For more information, click here.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lancers won NYC FTC Inspire Award!

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.  Lancers is a second year team but competed for the first time in the official tournaments this year. Congratulations to Lancers who is eligibled to go to the FIRST Tech [...]

NJ FTC “Garden State Rumble” Championship

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[ February 19, 2011; ] Location: Zoom Fleisher Athletic Center, NJIT, Newark, NJ

Time: 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM (Opening ceremony at 10:30 AM)

Parking: Raymond Blvd/Warren Street Parking Lot

Event is free and open to public.  Total of 48 teams will be attending:

NJ FTC Championship Team List 2011

Liberty Science Center Eweek Robotics Exhibition 2010

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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. [...]

NJ FTC State Championship Volunteer, 2/7/10

Head Referee briefing the Landroids on field resetting

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 [...]

Liberty Science Center Eweek Exhibition 2010

[ February 15, 2010; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] The 3rd annual Liberty Science Center Engineers Week Exhibition

A joint robotics exhibition showcasing the top NJ FLL from the 2009/10 season.  This year will also include representing teams from FTC and Jr. FLL.
Hosted by FLL team #109 Landroids
Sponsored by American Society of Civil Engineers,

Location:
Liberty Science Center
222 Jersey City Boulevard * Jersey City, NJ [...]

NJ State FRC Championship

[ March 5, 2010 to March 7, 2010. ] NJ FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship

Sun National Bank Center
81 Hamilton Avenue at Route 129
Trenton, NJ  08601
USA

FLL Open International Championship

[ May 6, 2010 12:00 pm to May 8, 2010 4:00 pm. ] FLL Open International Championship (OIC)

Kaohsiung, Taiwan