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 [...]
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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 19th, 2012
Liberty Science Center Member’s Night
[ January 26, 2012; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Robot demonstration at Liberty Science Center, for members only.
Posted in Events, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Landroids, Liberty Science Center, member's night, Robot Comments OffJanuary 15th, 2012
Livingston Robotics Club Jr. FLL Expo, 2/26/12
[ May 26, 2012; ] Landroids will host the 3rd annual Livingston Robotics Club Jr. FIRST LEGO League “Snack Attack” Expo. Maximum 24 teams, contact jrfll@livingston.org for registration.
Posted in Events, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2012, Jr. FLL Expo, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, Snack Attack Comments OffJanuary 11th, 2012
Liberty Science Center Board Presentation 1/12/12
[ January 12, 2012; 7:00 am to 8:30 am. ] Landroids presented to the Liberty Science Center Board of Executives to promote FIRST and future FIRST and robotics related activities at the science museum.
January 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
DE FTC State Championship
[ January 28, 2012; ] Delaware FTC State Championship: http://moe365.org/ftc/DSFTC_home.php
Awards:
Winning Alliance:
Tactical Sheep (captain)
Landroids
Charter Impulse
Finalist Allinace:
Say Watt? (captain)
Watts Up
OZONE
Inspire Award:
1st place: Techno Clovers
2nd Place: Landroids
3rd place: Say Watt?
Thnk Award: MFS Foxes
Innovate Award: Landroids
PTC Design Award: Watts Up
Connect Award: Say Watt?
MOEtivate Award: MOE
Attending Teams:
Team #
Team Name
7
Tactical Sheep
61
OZONE
110
MFS Foxes
118
Steel Hornets
204
Bruin Tech
205
Screw Loose
237
MFS Hawks
365
MOE
395
Archmere Robauktics
403
Charter Force
404
Charter Impulse
405
Charter Blue Crew
2897
Grizzl-E
3077
Zinc Iridium
3489
Minds In [...]
Posted in Competitions, Events, FTC Tags: 2012, Bowled Over, Delaware FTC State Championship, Landroids, results, teams Comments OffDecember 19th, 2011
NJ FTC State Championship, 2/12/12
[ February 12, 2012; ] Location: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Attending teams (as of 1/19/12, subject to update based on qualifier results):
Team #
Team Name
110
MFS Foxes
118
Steel Hornets
205
Screw Loose
207
Critical Mass
237
MFS Hawks
248
Fatal Errow
755
Greenwave
2753
Team Overdrive
2825
SWAG
2864
Bounty Hunters
3415
Lancers
3567
Fear the Gear
3568
Ice Wolves
3539
Say Watt?
3774
Hive Voltage
3951
Suffern Cyborgs
4077
M.A.S.H.
4102
CHS Cougars
4220
Landroids
4248
Ionions
4301
Tigers
4311
Watt the Hex
4326
Basement Lions
4347
NanoGurus
4390
FTC Storm Robotics
4486
Mad Science
4500
MFS Falcons
4890
Hive Voltage 2.0
4936
Sparks
5078
Omegatron
5169
Watts Up?
5205
SyBorgs
5212
Megahertz
5354
Oratory Prep
5665
Calaliers
Posted in Competitions, Events, FTC Tags: 2012, Bowled Over, Landroids, NJ FTC, State Championship, teams 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 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.
Posted in Events, FLL, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, Food Factor, Landroids, NJ FLL, State Championship 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 OffNovember 28th, 2011
Liberty Science Center FLL Qualifier, 12/3/11
[ 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 [...]
Posted in Events, FLL, FTC, Journal, Outreach Tags: 2011, Body Forward, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Liberty Science Center, NJ, qualifier, Regional No Comments »November 17th, 2011
Thanksgivings Tinker
[ November 26, 2011; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] An informal, mid-season, robot working session with team Landroids to get the rookie FTC robots functional for the upcoming qualifiers.
Location: Livingston Robotics Club, 464 W. Mt. Pleasant Ave., Livingston, NJ 07039
By invitation only:
4936 Sparks
5005 Carbonauts
5205 SyBorgs
5398 RoboTux
November 13th, 2011
NJ FLL Metuchen Practice Event, 11/13/11
[ November 13, 2011; 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location: St. Joseph High School, 145 Plainfield Ave., Metuchen, NJ
Landroids as the volunteer referees at this “Food Factor” robot performance practice event for 28 FLL teams.
Posted in Events, FLL, Outreach Tags: 2011, Food Factor, Landroids, Metuchen Practice, NJ FLL Comments OffNovember 9th, 2011
“Bowled Over”: Full Speed Ahead
In the past 4 weekends, NJ FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) has already held 5 scrimmages. With the numerous opportunities to test their designs at scrimmages, NJ FTC teams have developed and demonstrated some pretty impressive capabilities to tackle the “Bowled Over” challenge. From different designs for mass-harvesting balls into crates, pushing the 6-pound bowling ball [...]
November 9th, 2011
NJ FTC “Fall Harvest” Marlton Qualifier
[ November 20, 2011; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location:
Cherokee High School
120 Tomlinson Mill Road
Marlton, NJ 08053
NJ FTC Bowled Over Season Marlton Qualifier Results:
Winning Alliance: 4220 Landroids & 4077 MASH
Finalist Alliance: 0110 MFS Foxes & 0755 Greenwave
Inspire Award: 4220 Landroids
Think Award: 3415 Lancers
PTC Design Award: 0118 Steel Hornets
Motivate Award: 2864 Bounty Hunters
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award: 4077 MASH
Connect Award: 0110 MFS Foxes
7 teams have qualfied for [...]
November 3rd, 2011
NJ FTC “Robo CATastophe” Maplewood Scrimmage 11/6/11
[ November 6, 2011; 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. ]
Location:
Columbia High School
17 Parker Avenue
Maplewood, NJ 07040
Results:
Winning Alliance: 4102 Cougars & 5339 Knights
Finalist Alliance: 4220 Landroids & 4923 MicroGears
Motivate Award: 4215 Hypnotic Robotics
Innovate Award: 4102 Cougars
“On the Prowl” (Outreach): 4102 Cougars & 4220 Landroids
“Documenting the Journey”: 4220 Landroids
“Most Impressive New Team”: 4936 Sparks
Posted in Events, FTC Tags: 2011, Bowled Over, Landroids, magnet ball, Maplewood, NJ FTC Comments OffOctober 26th, 2011
NJ FTC Halloween River Dell Scrimmage
[ October 29, 2011; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location:
River Dell High School
55 Pyle Street
Oradell, NJ 07649-2599
Results:
1st: 4220 Landroids
2nd: 4890 Hive Voltage 2.0
3rd: 5354 ORC2
4th: 4102 CHS Cougars
5th: 3415 Lancers
6th: 4086 ORC
INNOVATE: 4102 Cougars
MOTIVATE: 2864 Bounty Hunters
IMPRESSIVE OUTREACH: 4311 Watt the Hex
PIT IN THE PENDULUM: 3724 Bulldogs
ENGINNERING NOTE-BOO-K: 4347 NanoGurus
Judges Nominations:
INNOVATE: 4102 Cougars; 4220 Landroids; 4347 NanoGurus
MOTIVATE: 2753 Team Overdrive; 2864 Bounty Hunters; [...]
Posted in Events, FTC Tags: 2011, Bowled Over, Landroids, NJ FTC, River Dell, scrimmage Comments OffOctober 9th, 2011
Landroids invited to X PRIZE Exploration Prize Group press event, 10/6/11
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, [...]
October 4th, 2011
X PRIZE Exploration Exhibition 10/6/11
[ October 6, 2011; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Location: Explorers Club, NYC
The X PRIZE Foundation, will announce Shell as the exclusive presenting sponsor of the X PRIZE Exploration Prize Group on October 6 at the historic Explorers Club in New York City, where world renowned explorers will share their remarkable achievements and future scenarios for exploration of space, Earth and the oceans that could [...]
Posted in Events, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Exploration Prize Group, Explorers Club, Landroids, NYC, Shell, X PRIZE No Comments »September 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 16th, 2011
Introducing FLL to Orange Schools
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 [...]
Posted in FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, Landroids, Orange Preparatory Academy, Orange Township Comments OffSeptember 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 [...]
September 7th, 2011
NJ FIRST LEGO League Team Directory 2011-12 (updated 10/3/11)
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.
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2011, directory, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Food Factor, Landroids, list, NJ, team No Comments »September 1st, 2011
“MoonBots Reloaded” Video
Capturing Landroids’ 5-week “MoonBots Reloaded” summer robotics outreach, in collaboration with Real World Connections at New Jersey Institute of Technology, here is the documentary video.
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Posted in FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Landroids, Moonbots, NJIT, Real World Connections, Robotics No Comments »August 3rd, 2011
“Moonbots Reloaded” 2011
Summer 2011 has so far been an extremely busy time for the Landroids. Earlier this year, our team has decided to “take the summer off” to recharge, and not compete in the Moonbots 2.0 challenge. Well, the “time off” idea turned out to be a wishful thinking for a short while. Instead, this summer, the [...]
Posted in FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Capstone, GLXP, Landroids, Moonbots, NJIT, Real World Connections No Comments »August 3rd, 2011
“Moonbots” Reloaded Project Showcase
[ August 10, 2011; 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm. ] Where: Student Center Atrium, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Time: 1 PM to 4:30 PM
A “Real World Connections” public project presentation by two middle/high school robotics teams who have participated in a 5-weeks simulated Moonbots competition mentored by team Landroids during summer 2011.
Posted in Events, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Landroids, Moonbots, Real World Connections, Robotics, STEM outreach No Comments »June 27th, 2011
Student Robotics Meets Medical Robotics
More than a hundred thirty members and parents from 17 FIRST robotics teams, with students ranging from kindergarten to high school, coming from Livingston, Short Hills, Cedar Grove, Springfield, Old Bridge, Glen Rock, Morris Plain and Kendall Park, all gathered at the St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ on June 24 for a day [...]
Posted in FTC, Outreach Tags: 2011, Body Forward, da Vinci, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, St. Barnabas Medical Center, surgical robotics No Comments »
