Marquette Regional

Our Marquette Regional pictures are now online!

Our skit is uploaded to our YouTube Channel.

Put on some headphones or use some good speakers and enjoy some fun music while you watch this short video of us building the Nature's Fury field elements.

Thanks for your help!

We had 245 survey respondents. Thank you!

State Results

TEAM Temp-Assure's FLL state tournament experiance -  64 teams, stiff competition, robot troubles, teamwork...... and 2nd place INSPIRATION AWARD!!! (one of the three kinds of teamwork awards). The judges thought our team was inspiring to other teams and to each other. We were nominated for the fallowing 3 awards:

1. Gracious Professionalism
2. Research
3. Inspiration

We are thrilled to have the judges recognize the work our team has been doing in the community to start, support, and inspire other FLL teams. We are all very happy to have received one of the top nine kinds of interview awards, and to have ranked 15th in robot scoring.
 

It was a long and exhausting day, but we all had thrilling time! The teams at the FLL State Championship were all excellent teams with engaging projects and remarkable robots. The team did very well in their interviews and obviously had some tough competition. In the end, we were all quite surprised with our second place
We now have another trophy built out of Legos to add to the team's trophy shelf in my living room.

TEAM Temp-Assure is still in surprised and excited shock, smiles everywhere. What an inspiring, and satisfactory day!

Team Survey

Our team is preparing for the upcoming tournament on the 16th at Marquette Highschool. Our team has published our teams survey and have already gotten a lot of respondents.

You can take our team survey by clicking on this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M6HCCXY  Our team hopes that you will fill out this quick survey to help our team in our final stages of research.

More volunteering at the Waukesha FLL Tournament

Past and current team members helped at the FLL tournament in Waukesha.

 Pictured: Hannah (past member), Jessica, Avery, Spencer, and Andrew (past member).

Pictured: Daniel was one of the founding members of the team. He graduated from the team a few years ago and is now a student at MSOE. At the tournament he was a Core Values judge. 

Pictured: Tyler was a founding member of the team. He graduated from the team a few years ago and is now a Senior at MSOE. He's been judging at tournaments for a few years now as a Technical judge.

Pictured: Curtis was a founding member of the team. He is currently a youth mentor on our team. He is also on the CORE 2062 FRC team and has a lot of fun as a ref at tournaments. He needs a silly hat, though, don't you think? Refs all need silly hats!

Pictured: Madeline was a founding member of the team. She is currently a youth mentor on our team. Here Madeline smiles at Ruth, another 4-H FLL graduate from the former team Legonauts, as Ruth takes a rest on Madeline's shoulder while standing in the line up of judges, refs and volunteers to congratulate teams.

Come on down to Marquette High School this Saturday and check out the tournament. It's sure to be a lot of fun!

Volunteering at the Waukesha FLL Tournament

Today we volunteered at the Waukesha FLL Tournament. So did our coach and both of our youth mentors. Also four graduates from our team volunteered. It was a fun day helping at the tournament. We did score running, field resetting, queuing, and escorting. Our youth mentors did queuing, escorting, coordinating queuers, and referee. Graduates from our team included queuers, Core Values judge, and Technical judge.

See you at the Saturday, Marquette tournament next weekend when we compete!

T.EA.M. volunteers at the Waukesha FLL Tournament.

Team Meetings

       Our team is working hard and doing well. We are nearly done working out the final kinks in our project and starting to work on a skit to present to the judges. The Robot design is going great and the programmers are doing their "thing". We will be putting up a survey shortly and we are still researching to find more information before the upcoming tournament.

       Our team has done tons of research and are still researching and learning more and more. We have found great facts and amusing statistics. Such as that thirty to thirty nine was the most common age for fatalities during a flood or that 71% of fatalities were male and only 29% were female. Plus lots of other fun finds.

       Epic Robi is rockin' the field and we have him programmed to do one and a half out of the five total missions we strategically chose for him to do. The technical goals are being met and the guys are having fun programing Epic Robi. The attachments are nearly done and are in the final stages.

       Our team is practicing teamwork exercises and making up team cheers. We are rehearsing tournament skills like crazy and learning what the core values are and how they apply to our own lives. We still don't know our official team name but we will decide at our next meeting on Wednesday.

       Fingers are crossed and we are doing our best. Like coach always tells us, "If you work hard and do your best, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. You know you did your best and you know that even if you feel bad at first that feeling is only temporary because you couldn't have done any better and you will have no regrets."

This Years Team Name

       At a recent team meeting this week our team brainstormed team name ideas and polled to pick our team name. We had tons of great ideas but eventually narrowed it down and decided on... T.E.A.M. Flash Drivez!!! The reason for this is because of our choice in project.

       Also at the meeting we started to write our project skit and we are using the basic idea from one of the previous years skits but changing it a lot to fit this year's theme. Our team will be presenting our skit at a 4-H meeting coming up in a few weeks.

       As far as the robot goes we are still working on the programming and perfecting attachments and robot design. For the past few meetings we have been dividing into two main sub-teams, skit writing and technical, and we have had groups of team members practicing interview prep and skills.

Getting Started

We have a new EV3 robot!

It's been challenging for us with the new EV3 robot, because we have had this robot design for 4 years now, and we are going to change it this year. We have to get the robot to be short enough, because there is a string going across the robot field. With the new EV3, we have to learn a new programming language. it is pretty much the same just some thing are in different places

So far we have had 3 field trips,

• Ham Radio
• 911 Dispatch Center
• Sullivan Weather Station

We still have a couple more to go.

We have had a couple really good projects, but then we found that they were already patented, but now thankfully we were able to think of a new project that looks like it might have some hope! We are still trying to find a technology that will work, we have found a few things that might work, but we will have to research some more to see if they will work.

We have been having lots of fun with teamwork exercises that our coach thinks of. Some of the teamwork exercises that we have done are, passing a ball one person over around in a circle facing backward, getting a big blue ball from one side of the yard to the other, with out using our arms or feet, and we had to do it while we were crab walking, another one that we did was where we only had 9 balls, and and 4 pieces of cardboard. We are getting pretty good at them now, we still need some work though.

The Beginning of Nature's Fury

We wrapped up the end of last years FLL season on Senior Solutions with a follow up presentation to a senior book club. We had previously presented to them at the beginning of the season and enjoyed our time with them. They even helped us with our research by taking surveys we created! We were glad to be back for the follow up presentation and look forward to possible further presentations in the future.

Nature's Fury is this year's FLL topic. Though we don't know yet what the full challenge will be, we can get started on general research. We've begun looking at a wide verity of natural disasters to have a general knowledge of many areas so we're ready to dive in when the full challenge is released. Each team member is researching a few topics and reporting their findings to the rest of the team. Natural disasters are fascinating and we expect this year's FLL challenge to be exciting!

Where will our team be in the community next? At our county fair, we plan to set up our robot and talk about FLL with the general public. We have done this every year since the beginning of our team. This is a great way to introduce FIRST to hundreds of people! We have even inspired people to start their own teams after talking with us at the county fair! We were also at the state fair last year and hope to present there again this year.

Thanks for reading!

Team Number!

We have our team number for this coming year already! ...It's the lowest number we've ever gotten, that's exciting.  :D

We are team number 244!


Below is a list of all the team numbers we have had so far:

• #2659  -  (Year 2007, team name: Solar Revenge)
• #4184  -  (Year 2008, team name: Solar Revenge)
• #4801  -  (Year 2009, team name: T.E.A.M.)*
• #3176  -  (Year 2010, team name: T.E.A.M. F.I.R.S.T. Aid)**
• #4877  -  (Year 2011, team name: T.E.A.M. Temp-Assure)*
• #1544  -  (Year 2012, team name: T.E.A.M. Dose-E-Dough)*
• #244  -  (Year 2013, team name: T.E.A.M. Flash Drivez)*

*T.E.A.M. stands for Tackling Everything And More
** Our F.I.R.S.T. stood for Frequent Information Response and Safety Team