For more than 4 years, Landroids has been bringing FIRST teams to Liberty Science Center during the annual Engineers Week Exhibition on President’s Day. With close to a year of planning and discussions, the science center was finally an official qualifier venue for NJ FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech Challenge. Landroids initiated this partnership [...]
Posts Tagged ‘FTC’
January 24th, 2012
Transforming “Bowled Over”
Deep down inside, we knew that one day, robots will morph, grow and expand at will like the Transformers. This year’s FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) “Bowled Over” is just such game, inviting a dramatic transformation from an 18” cube to a 10 feet+ tall crate lifting giant. Perhaps sky (or ceiling) is the limit?
Throughout science [...]
January 19th, 2012
FTC Tune-Up Scrimmage
[ February 4, 2012; ] Academies @ Englewood
Dwight Morrow High School
274 Knickerbocker Road, Englewood, NJ, 07031
(20 teams)
Posted in Competitions, Events, FTC 
Tags: 2012, Bowled Over, FTC, Landroids, NJ, scrimmage 
Comments OffJanuary 6th, 2012
Liberty Science Center Eweek Robotics Exhibition
[ February 20, 2012; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Landroids FTC team#4220 will once again host the 5th annual Liberty Science Center (LSC) robotics exhibition during Engineers Week on President’s Day, where the top 2011-12 award winning NJ FRC, FTC, FLL and Jr. FLL teams are invited.
Attending team list:
All Day
FTC 4420 Landroids (Host)
FRC 11 MORT
FRC 3314 Mechanical Mustangs
FTC: NJ State Inspire Award and Winning [...]
Posted in Events, FLL, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2012, Engineers Week, Eweek, FLL, FRC, FTC, Jr. FLL, Landroids, Liberty Science Center, NJ, President's Day, robotics exhibition Comments OffDecember 19th, 2011
Liberty Science Center FTC Qualifier, 1/7/12
[ January 7, 2012; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location: Liberty Science Center
(16 teams)
Posted in Events, FTC Tags: 2011, 2012, Bowled Over, First Tech Challenge, FTC, Landroids, Liberty Science Center, qualifier Comments OffDecember 19th, 2011
Nourishing Our Roots
Four years ago this month in 2007, team Landroids received our first of the two NJ State FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Champion’s Award as a FLL rookie. In midst of surprise and shock, the words that described a Champion’s Award recipient as the “total embodiment of FIRST” was forever etched in our minds. Ever since [...]
December 16th, 2011
NJ FTC “Robo-Joust” Livingston Qualifier
[ December 17, 2011; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location: Livingston High School Auxiliary Gym, 30 Robert Harp Drive/Madonna Drive, Livingston, NJ 07039
36 teams, 12 slots to qualify to NJ FTC State Championship
Event is free and open to public.
Landroids volunteering as Referee, Field Controls, and Queuers in this qualifier.
Posted in Events, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Bowled Over, FTC, Livingston, NJ, qualifier Comments OffNovember 29th, 2011
Landroids Thanksgiving Tinker, 11/26/11
While most people were carving turkey and shopping for deals during the Thanksgiving weekend, team Landroids spent the Thanksgiving Saturday with a couple rookie teams tinkering with the robots. We put away our robot and focus on making rookie teams’ robots functional and operational for the upcoming FTC qualifiers. Four rookie FTC teams joined us [...]
Posted in FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Bowled Over, First Tech Challenge, FTC, Landroids, NJ, Thanksgiving Tinker Comments OffSeptember 30th, 2011
Bowled Over Season Started
It has been 3 weeks since the FTC kickoff, we are off to a slow start.
After an extremely busy summer, Landroids took a team field trip to visit the NYC World Maker Faire on 9/17/11. It was an inspirational day to see all the different robots, electronics, and 3-D printings. Our team was the first [...]
September 12th, 2011
FTC “Bowled Over”
With much anticipation followed a full day of FTC workshop, the 2011 FIRST Tech Challenge “Bowled Over” was finally revealed on September, 10, 2011.
One of our team member has corrected guessed “bowling”, but certainly not bowling uphill, tripping over 100 racket balls while stacking crates and picking out the magnetic balls. With the new season, a [...]
May 2nd, 2011
Landroids won Innovate Award at 2011 FTC World Championship
In our rookie FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) season, Landroids has received the prestigious Rockwell Collins Innovate Award, and was nominated for the Think Award at the 2011 FTC World Championship. This event was held at the America’s Center and Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO from April 27-30, attended by the top 128 teams from countries such as [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, FTC, Innovate Award, Landroids, magnet baton, NJ, St. Louis, World Championship No Comments »February 16th, 2011
NJ Garden State Rumble – 2011 FTC Championship 2/19/11
(Excerpt from NJ FTC Press & Media Notice and Release, February 10, 2011)
On Saturday, February 19th, sporting events at the NJIT Fleisher Athletic Center in Newark, NJ will give way to 48 high school robotics teams as they compete at the 2011 New Jersey FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) State Championship.
The event will run from 10 [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, championship, FTC, Garden State Rumble, NJ, results, Team list, winner list No Comments »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 [...]
February 2nd, 2011
Landroids won Think Award at Hudson Valley, 1/30/11
One week after the Delaware Diamond State FTC Championship, Landroids once again competed at another FTC State Championship. This time, it was the New York Hudson Valley State Championship held at Pace University on January 30, 2011.
The Landroids was nominated for the highest Inspire Award, won the Think Award, and ranked #3 out of 36 [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, FTC, Hudson Valley, Inspire Award, Landroids, NY No Comments »January 23rd, 2011
Landroids won Diamond State FTC Inspire Award! 1/22/11
After a grueling week of robot redesign and an extremely competitive tournament at the Delaware Diamond State FTC Championship on 1/22/11, Landroids won the highest award given by FTC, the Inspire Award, which made Landroids the first New Jersey FTC team eligible to compete in the 2011 FTC World Championship in St. Louis, MO at [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC Tags: 2011, DE Diamond State Championship, FTC, Inspire Award, Landroids No Comments »December 30th, 2010
Hudson Valley FTC Championship
[ January 30, 2011; ] Location: Pace University, 861 Bedford Rd, Pleasantville, NY 10570
Hudson Valley FTC team list as of 1-20-2011
Event free and open to public
December 30th, 2010
NJ FTC Snow Day Qualifier #3
[ January 15, 2011; ] Location: Hightstown High School, Hightstown, NJ
Event free and open to public
Applying Teams for the Qualifier
3944
Team Mercury
Hightstown High School
138
Heavy Metal Robotix
Spotswood HS
220
Steinert
Steinert High School
221
Steinert
Steinert High School
609
CJCP cougars
Central Jersey College Prep [...]
December 22nd, 2010
Landroids won NJ FTC Qualifier Inspire Award 12/18/10
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 [...]
Posted in Competitions, FTC, Journal Tags: 2010, Frozen Frenzy qualifier, FTC, Landroids, NJ Comments OffSeptember 12th, 2010
Landroids as FTC team #4220
Landroids is now formally a FIRST Tech Challenge team #4220 for the “Get Over It” season. This weekend, we finally opened our FTC kit, got our new team shirts (the FLL shirts are full of holes from the buttons collected), and attended the NJ FTC kickoff party on 9/11/10. We are a rookie FTC [...]
August 1st, 2010
Landroids’ 3rd year Anniversary
Landroids is celebrating our 3rd-year team anniversary on August 1! See our team video.
Exactly 3 years ago on this day, invitation letters from our head coach were sent to a group of 6th grade neighborhood students, who came together to form the FIRST LEGO League team Landroids and Livingston Robotics Club (LRC).
In three years, it [...]
May 21st, 2010
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
April 11th, 2010
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.
Posted in Events, FLL Tags: 2010, FLL, FTC, Jr. FLL, Landroids, Livingston, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, Youth Appreciation Week No Comments »March 14th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in FTC, Journal Tags: 2010, FTC, Inspired Award, Lancers, Landroids, Livingston, NJ, NYC, World Championship No Comments »February 15th, 2010
NJ FTC “Garden State Rumble” Championship
[ 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
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 »September 13th, 2009
FTC Kickoff
[ September 12, 2009; 8:30 am; ] FIRST TECH Challenge at The College of NJ, Trenton
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 OffJanuary 3rd, 2009
2008-09 NYC FLL/FTC/FRC Championship Tournament
[ March 7, 2009; 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. ] New York City Joint FIRST Championship Tournament
FIRST LEGO League, Saturday 3/7/09 (72 winning teams from 5 borough) Additional tournament Info
FIRST Tech Challenge, Sunday 3/8/09
FIRST Robotics Competition, Friday 3/6/09 to Sunday 3/8/09
Jacob Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY
Travel Directions to Javits Center
Posted in Events Tags: 2009, FIRST Championship, FLL, FRC, FTC, Javits, New York City, NYC Comments Off
