Posts Tagged ‘New Jersey’

May 2nd, 2011

Landroids won 1st place State eCYBERMISSION Award

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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 [...]

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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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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 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

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 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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August 7th, 2009

FLL Oreintation – Part V Public Speaking & Preparing for Judging Sessions, 8/6/09

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Part 5 and also the final NJ FLL orientation workshop,”Public Speaking and Prepare for Judging Sessions”, was held on 8/6/09. It covered the importance of practicing speaking and presenting in public, and provided tips on preparing for the judging sessions. Various participants had to think on their feet to come up with some clever answers [...]

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July 21st, 2009

FLL Orientation – Part II Project Research, 7/16/09

Part II of the FLL summer orientation “Project Research” covered 10 steps on how to do a research project, from pre-season all the way to the competition.  In a fun and interactive way, teams learned to understand the FLL requirements, brainstorm and summarize findings, and
develop an innovative solution and create their own presentation styles. [...]

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May 11th, 2009

Landroids won 1st Place Champion’s Award at 2009 FLL US Open!

Team Landroids, represented New Jersey, competed in the 2009 FIRST LEGO League United States Open Championship held in Dayton, Ohio from 5/7/09 – 5/9/09 (results, 5 pages), winning teams.  With 9 months of hard work and dedication, our team of five 7th graders took home:
Landroids at 2009 FLL US Open
1st place Champion’s Award, which is the most prestigious [...]

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August 11th, 2008

NJ FLL Grants for new FLL teams

A Hardship Grant is available through New Jersey FIRST LEGO League to a limited number of new FLL teams in New Jersey for the “Climate Connections” season.  Funded by Sanofi-Aventis, application for this grant must be completed and submitted via email by September 15, 2008 to NJ FLL for review and approval.  For more information [...]

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