Posts Tagged ‘FIRST LEGO LEAGUE’

December 6th, 2011

NJ FIRST LEGO League State Championship, 12/10/11

[ December 10, 2011; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location: Mt. Olive High School, Flander, NJ

Landroids volunteering as referees and floor robot judges at NJ State FIRST LEGO League Championship Tournament.

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November 28th, 2011

Liberty Science Center FLL Qualifier, 12/3/11

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[ December 3, 2011; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] FTC team Landroids #4220 is hosting the pilot NJ FIRST LEGO League “Food Factor” qualifier at Liberty Science Center on Saturday December 3, 2011!

Our sister FLL team Landrias #4282 will also be on hand as the ambassador of FLL in this event.

The 12 participating New Jersey FIRST LEGO League teams are:

977    The Inators (Teaneck)
1884    RoboCougars (Chatham)
4144    [...]

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September 16th, 2011

Introducing FLL to Orange Schools

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Team Landroids recently kickoff the FIRST LEGO League program in Orange School district.
In collaboration with Real World Connections of NJIT, and with the support and approval from the Orange School Superintendent and the town Mayor, our team went to Orange Preparatory Academy (OPA) to present FIRST and robotics to students during their back to school orientation.
The 8th and 9th grade [...]

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September 7th, 2011

NJ FIRST LEGO League Team Directory 2011-12 (updated 10/3/11)

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The 4th annual unofficial NJ FLL Team Directory 2011-12 is now available. A total of 163 New Jersey FIRST LEGO League teams had signed up to compete in the “Food Factor” season as of 9/30/11.
Anyone who wishes to find a team, networking, recruiting or mentoring, can now utilize the official FIRST TeamUp weblink.
If you need further assistance, please contact coach@landroids.org.

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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 [...]

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April 20th, 2010

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 [...]

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April 19th, 2010

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, [...]

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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 [...]

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February 11th, 2010

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. [...]

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February 10th, 2010

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 [...]

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January 11th, 2010

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 [...]

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December 30th, 2009

FLL World Festival

[ April 14, 2010 to April 17, 2010. ] FIRST LEGO League World Festival

Atlanta, GA, USA

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December 30th, 2009

FLL Open International Championship

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

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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December 21st, 2009

Landroids FLL Team Video (8/07 – 12/09)

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.

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December 15th, 2009

Landroids won NJ FLL State 1st place Robot Design, 12/12/09

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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 [...]

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December 8th, 2009

Livingston Robotics Club Party

[ December 17, 2009; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Where: Livingston Hillside Community Center

It’s the LRC End-of-Season Party!

Come celebrate our “Smart Move” season of hard work, FLL experiences and memorial team moments.  This is a social gathering of our club members, coaches, parents, siblings and friends.  Let’s relax, unwind, and eat more pizzas!

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December 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 [...]

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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, [...]

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December 2nd, 2009

LRC in the News

For the season-long newsletter coverages on Livingston Robotics Club, see:
The AlternativePress, November 30, 2009
HCHY of Livingston, LRC news

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November 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

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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 [...]

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November 2nd, 2009

LRC on LTV

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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October 6th, 2009

Livingston Eco Fair Project Presentation, 10/4/09

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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 [...]

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October 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 [...]

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September 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

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September 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 .

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September 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.

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September 13th, 2009

Smart Move Mission Video

A new FLL Smart Move mission video has been strung together and posted on YouTube (with narrative).

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September 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 [...]

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