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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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 [...]
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 »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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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 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 »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 »Hailed by the judges at the 2011 FTC FIRST World Championship as the “Alphabet Soup of Innovations”, the Landroids’ robot won the 2011 Rockwell Collins Innovate Award for its innovative and creative design in the ”Get Over It” season.
Since day one of our rookie FTC season, Landroids has decided to set our goal on actively detect, [...]
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After months of planning, a late night packing followed with an early morning setup, team Landroids has successfully hosted the 2nd annual Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) Jr. FIRST LEGO League Expo on 5/28/11. This is the largest outdoor Jr.FLL Expo in the nation, held under a 60’ x 40’ tent, took place alongside with the [...]
Posted in FTC, Outreach Tags: Body Forward, Jr. FLL Expo, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, St. Barnabas Comments OffTo 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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Posted in Competitions, FTC, Outreach Tags: 2010, 2011, Get over it, Landroids, NJ FTC Garden State Rumble, State Championship Comments OffIn 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 »
[ May 7, 2011; 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Landroids annual fishing derby, robot will also attend.
Grover Cleveland Park, Caldwell/Essex Fells
(for age 15 and under)
Landroids has won the 2011 1st place NJ State 9th grade eCYBERMISSION award on April 18, 2011. (See eCYBERMISSION Press Release).
This is the 2nd year that the Landroids has participated in the US Army sponsored web-base eCYBERMISSION science competition. In 2010, the Landroids won the 8th grade 1st place National Award. This year, our team [...]
Posted in Competitions Tags: 2011, beach erosion, eCYBERMISSION, Landroids, New Jersey, State winner Comments OffIt seemed like an odd choice for Google to be interested in interviewing the Landroids,…. in addition to talking with several renowned scientists from around the world to promote the Google Science Fair. After all, isn’t Landroids just a neighbor robotics team who plays with LEGO?
Somehow, Google knew that team Landroids is not just about [...]
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Hi-Robot! The Landroids robot was a hit at Liberty Science Center!
The claw-waving, light blinking, sound chattering, wheel spinning Landroids-bot was invited back to Liberty Science Center for a visit on Saturday, 3/26/11. For those who missed it during the Eweek robotics exhibition, this award winning FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) robot spent a day playing with the [...]
Talk about multi-tasking to the max! Somehow, Landroids managed to compete in a FTC Championship, host a robotics exhibition, setup a new clubhouse, on camera for a Google interview, submit for a science competition, participate in a FTC outreach, and be featured in an online magazine, all in two week’s time!
Landroids competed at the NJ [...]
Posted in FTC, Journal, Outreach Tags: FTC outreach, Google Science Fair, Landroids, Liberty Science Center Eweek Robotics Exhibition Comments Off[ May 28, 2011; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Livingston Robotics Club Jr. FIRST LEGO League “Body Forward” Expo
The 2nd annual outdoor Jr. FLL Expo hosted by Livingston Robotics Club & team Landroids as part of the Youth Appreciation Week celebration.
16 NJ Jr. FLL teams are attending. For more information, see Livingston Robotics Club website.
For 2010 Jr. FLL Expo photos, see Landroids Facebook.
Location: Livingston [...]
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 [...]
[ April 27, 2011 to April 30, 2011. ] America’s Convention Center
St. Louis, MO
http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/content.aspx?id=4378
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Team Landroids attended the Google Science Fair (GSF) announcement event at the Google’s NYC Headquarter on January 11, 2011. What an exciting and inspiring day!
(For Landroids’ photos, click here; for official event photos, click here; for video interview with Dean Kamen, click here).
Google has partnered with CERN, the LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American [...]
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 Off[ February 21, 2011; ] The 4th Annual Engineers Week Robotics Exhibition hosted by FTC team Landroids #4220 will be held at Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ.
Exhibitors by invitations, are the winners of 2010-11 NJ State FLL and FTC Championships.
Morning Exhibition Session (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM)
FLL #9610 Jaguars (1st place State Champion’s Award & 1st place Robot Performance [...]
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As a part of the 1st place grand prize international Google X PRIZE MoonBots Challenge winner, the Landroids was invited by the LEGO Group to visit the LEGO headquarter at Billund, Denmark. It was a fun-packed, 3-day, 3-night, a chance of the life time trip last week.
Thursday, September 24, 2010
We got out of school [...]
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 [...]
After four months of Moonbots competition, on September 1, 2010, the X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group announced team Landroids as the Moonbots grand prize winner, and will be invited to Denmark to visit the LEGO headquarter plus receiving $1,300 for the FTC registration kit!
See here for the 2010 Moonbots winner and award list. [...]
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 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 [...]
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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