We are a 4-H FIRST LEGO League team from Waukesha, WI. Our team and the FIRST organization are for inspiration and recognition of science and technology, driven by gracious professionalism. In our 9-year history, we've been awarded Teamwork, Robot Performance, three Innovative Solutions, three Inspirations, 1st and 2nd place Research, two Champions, two Runners up Champions, 2nd Place Alliance, 3rd Place Core Values, and yes, even Gracious Professionalism. In all things, TEAMwork counts!
Friday, November 15, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
State Results
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.
We now have another trophy built out of Legos to add to the team's trophy shelf in my living room.
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.
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!
Sunday, November 10, 2013
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!
See you at the Saturday, Marquette tournament next weekend when we compete!
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| T.EA.M. volunteers at the Waukesha FLL Tournament. |
Thursday, October 24, 2013
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."
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."
Monday, October 14, 2013
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.
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.
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