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 »[ 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 [...]
Posted in Events, FLL Tags: 2010, Engineers Week, Exhibition, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Liberty Science Center, NJ Comments Off[ March 5, 2010 to March 7, 2010. ] NJ FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship
Sun National Bank Center
81 Hamilton Avenue at Route 129
Trenton, NJ 08601
USA
Posted in Events Tags: 2010, FIRST Robotics Competition, FRC, NJ, State Championship, Trenton Comments OffThree 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.
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2008, 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, Smart Move, team, US Open, Video, World Festival Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL Tags: 2009, Atoms Family, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, Landroids, Mt. Olive, Nano Guru, New Jersey, NJ, Smart Move, State tournament Comments Off[ 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!
Posted in Events, LRC Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Livingston Robotics Club, LRC, NJ, Smart Move Comments Off[ 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 [...]
For the season-long newsletter coverages on Livingston Robotics Club, see:
The AlternativePress, November 30, 2009
HCHY of Livingston, LRC news
Posted in Journal, LRC Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, HCHY, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, LRC, New Jersey, news, NJ, The AlternativePress No Comments »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
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 [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL, LRC Tags: 2009, Alpha Force, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Hillsborough, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, LRC, New Jersey, NJ, qualifier, Smart Move, Thunderclan No Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Journal, LRC Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Jr. FLL, Landroids, Livingston, Livingston Robotics Club, Livingston Television, LTV, New Jersey, NJ, r2d2, Spongebots Comments OffSince 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 [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, LEGO, New Jersey, NJ, orientation, presentation, summer, Thailand Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, Eco Fair, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landrias, Landroids, Livingston Mall, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ, presentation, project, Smart Move Comments OffThe 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 [...]
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, New Jersey, NJ, Qualifying Comments Off[ December 4, 2009; 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Montclair (12 teams)
Union Congregational Church
176 Cooper Ave
Montclair, NJ 07043
USA
Posted in Events, FLL Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, NJ, Qualifying, Rowan, Sparta Comments OffThe 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.
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, Chinese, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Mission, NJ, Robot, score sheet, Smart Move, TechBrick Comments OffA new FLL Smart Move mission video has been strung together and posted on YouTube (with narrative).
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, NJ, Smart Move, Video Comments Off[ September 12, 2009; 8:30 am; ] FIRST TECH Challenge at The College of NJ, Trenton
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 [...]
Posted in FLL, Journal Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, LEGO, NJ, Smart Move Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, Add new tag, Judging, kids, Landroids, LEGO, Livingston Mall, Livingston Robotics Club, mentoring, New Jersey, NJ, NJ FLL, orientation, Public Speaking, Smart Move, summer Comments OffPart 4 of the FLL summer orientation “Documentation & Robot Performance” held on 7/30/09 discussed the importance of note taking, how to prepare a team information sheet and team brochure, plus many tips on compiling checklists to be well-prepared for the robot performance competition. Teams got quizzed on how much information they retained by just [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, Docmentation, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston, NJ, orientation, Robot Performance Comments OffPart III of the FLL summer orientation “Teamwork & Robot Mission Strategy” on 7/23/09 was again an interactive evening with team activities. During the first half of the workshop we talked about the importance of teamwork and acted out several common “blamestorming” scenarios, which got some good laughs. Each team then was to build the [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, mentoring, Mission, NJ, orientation, strategy, summer, teamwork, workshop Comments OffThe NJ FLL summer orientation series is on!
Part I for “Robot Design and Programming” was held on 7/9/09. Landroids’s lead designer and programmer, Karlin, prepared and conducted a 2-hr presentation discussing various types of platforms, gears, gear ratios, wheels, and sensors, plus a live demonstration of NXT-G and Robolab programming short cuts and [...]
Posted in FLL, Outreach Tags: 2009, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL orientation, Landroids, NJ, Robot Design & Programming Comments Off[ December 5, 2009; ] Rowan (12 teams)
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro NJ 08028
(for Delaware Championship)
Sparta (12 teams)
Pope John XXXIII Regional High School
28 Andover Rd., Sparta NJ 07871
[ November 14, 2009; ] Metuchen (24 teams)
St. Joseph Regional High School
145 Plainfield Ave.,
Metuchen, NJ
[ November 21, 2009; ] Steinert (24 teams)
Steinert High School
2900 Klockner Road
Hamilton NJ 08690 US
Hillsborough (24 teams)
Hillsborough High School
466 Raider Blvd
Hillsborough NJ 08844 US
Bergen (12 teams)
Emil A. Cavallini Middle School
392 West Saddle River Rd.
Upper Saddle River NJ 07458
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 Off
It has been an exciting week coming home from Ohio. First, we had to make up all the missing homework, tests and final exam. Then there were many hours spent with the reporters. In between, some of us managed to squeeze in a fishing tournament, while all of us got to munch on the [...]
Posted in Competitions, FLL Tags: Alternative Press, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, HCHY, Landroids, Livingston, NJ, Ohio, Star Ledger, US Open Comments OffLandroids’s website and Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) are now linked with HCHY (Healthy Communithy Healthy Youth of Livingston) and Alternative Press (an online community newspaper).
By connecting with the local Youth Organization, Landroids and Livingston Robotics Club can operate as a non-profit organization, develop contacts and communication with local officials, have up-to-date newsblasts on the [...]
Posted in FLL, LRC Tags: Alternative Press, HCHY, Landroids, Livingston, Livingston Robotics Club, NJ Comments Off
[ March 4, 2009; ] Get ready for the new FIRST LEGO League season 2009-10 Smart Move! It is never too early to think about FLL, especially when the FLL team registration starts on May 4.
A FIRST LEGO League (FLL) information session will be held on Saturday, April 18th, 2009 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Livingston Public [...]
Posted in Events, FLL, Outreach Tags: April, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE, FLL, information session, Landroids, Livingston Robotics Club, LRC, NJ Comments Off
