Our team will also be partaking in other events throughout the year. Such as a 4-H LEGO tournament, the Waukesha JanBoree, and the county and state fairs.
What a wonderful end to a great FLL season!
Avery
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!
Saturday, December 15, 2012
State
As you know our team made it to state and we had two weeks to prepare for the tournament. Well now the tournament is over and we all had a lot of fun and enjoyed every moment of it. We finished the day with a second place award in research with seventeen types of research! After the tournament we all hung out and talked about how the tournament went and ate dinner and some ice cream.
Our team will also be partaking in other events throughout the year. Such as a 4-H LEGO tournament, the Waukesha JanBoree, and the county and state fairs.
What a wonderful end to a great FLL season!
Avery
Our team will also be partaking in other events throughout the year. Such as a 4-H LEGO tournament, the Waukesha JanBoree, and the county and state fairs.
What a wonderful end to a great FLL season!
Avery
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
State Preparations
Okay, the state tournament is just a hop, skip, and a jump away. We can't wait!
Guess what, we've had some thrilling recent developments for our project! Andrew Isham, an expert we contacted earlier in the season, has some connections that are interested in learning more about our project. Perhaps we'll actually get our idea implemented. Isn't that exciting?
This year, the state tournament is doing something a little different that they've never done before. They added a poster presentation for the Core Values interview and a Robot Executive Design Summary which is a short presentation for the technical interview. That means we have our work cut out for us.
We've completed the Core Values poster tri-fold board and we've made a presentation board for the technical interview, too. Now we just have to rehearse these two new presentations and the skit as well.
We're nearly ready!
Guess what, we've had some thrilling recent developments for our project! Andrew Isham, an expert we contacted earlier in the season, has some connections that are interested in learning more about our project. Perhaps we'll actually get our idea implemented. Isn't that exciting?
This year, the state tournament is doing something a little different that they've never done before. They added a poster presentation for the Core Values interview and a Robot Executive Design Summary which is a short presentation for the technical interview. That means we have our work cut out for us.
We've completed the Core Values poster tri-fold board and we've made a presentation board for the technical interview, too. Now we just have to rehearse these two new presentations and the skit as well.
We're nearly ready!
Sunday, November 18, 2012
We Did It!
Regional was awesome! We had so much fun. There were so many top-notch teams there.
All three interviews in the morning went smoothly and many judges visited our pit. We even got to help a rookie team that had no programming for their robot. We got programs working for them and they were able to score as highly as our robot for the first round!
...Not everything was perfect though... We lost our robot jig, download cable, and some of the attachments we use. Because of that, our robot was unable to score as highly as we had hoped. After all three robot rounds, we slipped from ranking 9th to 11th place. Not too bad, ehh?
Then finally came the awards ceremony! We were nominated for several awards and won....... the RUNNER'S-UP CHAMPIONS award!!! Afterward we headed to Culver's to celebrate.
Now we have 3 weeks to prepare for state.
All three interviews in the morning went smoothly and many judges visited our pit. We even got to help a rookie team that had no programming for their robot. We got programs working for them and they were able to score as highly as our robot for the first round!
...Not everything was perfect though... We lost our robot jig, download cable, and some of the attachments we use. Because of that, our robot was unable to score as highly as we had hoped. After all three robot rounds, we slipped from ranking 9th to 11th place. Not too bad, ehh?
Then finally came the awards ceremony! We were nominated for several awards and won....... the RUNNER'S-UP CHAMPIONS award!!! Afterward we headed to Culver's to celebrate.
Now we have 3 weeks to prepare for state.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Just Two Days Left
Can you believe it? The competition is TOMORROW! We are Ready! Our team name is #1544 T.E.A.M. Dose-E-Dough! Our innovative project for Senior Solutions is completed, and our team slogan is completed as well!
Our team has been working hard and is ready for the competition. Everyone is anxious as the day draws near. The preparations are nearly there and the robot just needs a little fine tuning.
T.E.A.M. Dose-E-Dough is getting ready to hear all those cheers for teams from all over the region! All the teams have worked hard and while we can't wait to tell the judges about our innovative solution, we can't wait to see what the other teams came up with too!
It will be a long, tiring, yet, exciting day and T.E.A.M. Dose-E-Dough is hoping to hear our name be announced over that huge, blaring speaker announcing the names of the teams that won various awards.
Tonight, we have one team meeting left to go over our lines for our skit, practice our interview skills, work on some team building exercises, and to fine tune our robot. Our team meeting tonight will be extra fun because we get to have a PIZZA party! Who doesn't get excited about that?
Avery
Our team has been working hard and is ready for the competition. Everyone is anxious as the day draws near. The preparations are nearly there and the robot just needs a little fine tuning.
T.E.A.M. Dose-E-Dough is getting ready to hear all those cheers for teams from all over the region! All the teams have worked hard and while we can't wait to tell the judges about our innovative solution, we can't wait to see what the other teams came up with too!
It will be a long, tiring, yet, exciting day and T.E.A.M. Dose-E-Dough is hoping to hear our name be announced over that huge, blaring speaker announcing the names of the teams that won various awards.
Tonight, we have one team meeting left to go over our lines for our skit, practice our interview skills, work on some team building exercises, and to fine tune our robot. Our team meeting tonight will be extra fun because we get to have a PIZZA party! Who doesn't get excited about that?
Avery
Thursday, October 11, 2012
At This Week's Meeting...
Our team has decided on our project. We are going to be working on the details and the skit/presentation too. We hope to settle in and get busy now that we have decided on our project.
Our team is also working hard on the robot and the mission strategy for the robot competition and the technical interview at the tournament. We have programmed some of the missions and are working on others. We have decided also on the body of the robot and have some really good ideas for the attachments on the robot.
We are still accepting survey entry's. The survey takes about five minutes to fill out and is just some basic questions. The link for the survey was posted in a previous entry.
Thank you.
Our team is also working hard on the robot and the mission strategy for the robot competition and the technical interview at the tournament. We have programmed some of the missions and are working on others. We have decided also on the body of the robot and have some really good ideas for the attachments on the robot.
We are still accepting survey entry's. The survey takes about five minutes to fill out and is just some basic questions. The link for the survey was posted in a previous entry.
Thank you.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Fieldtrip to Oak Hill Terrace
Here are some pictures of our recent fieldtrip to Oak Hill Terrace in Waukesha. While we were there, we met with some senior residents and also had a tour of the assisted living style facility.
https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/OakHillTerrace
Upon arriving at Oak Hill Terrace, the team first went to talk to the seniors who live at Oak Hill to help us determine what some existing problems the seniors are experiencing or have experienced. The team then went on a tour of the building compliments of Robert Best.
When we were talking to the seniors we asked them a lot of questions. They told us the many reasons why they moved to Oak Hill Terrace, why and how they need help. The seniors were very happy to answer all of the questions we asked and we got a lot of information from them. Some of the things we learned were that seniors are very afraid of falling and so a lot of them moved in to the building because they are scared and they feel safer there where they can get help 24 hours a day. Some of the seniors also live there because they felt that they could no longer keep up with the house work or because their husband/wife needed the assistance so they moved in together. Some of the seniors also admitted to moving to an assisted living facility because their children had requested the move feeling that their parents would be safer and better looked after there.
All of the residents indicated that they were happy living at Oak Hill Terrace and appreciate the variety and extensive list of daily assistance available to them.
We all learned a lot of helpful information from the seniors at Oak Hill Terrace and now feel like we have a better understanding of the trials seniors face as it relates to mobility, staying fit and staying connected.
Thank you again Robert Best and the Residents of Oak Hill Terrace.
Avery
https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/OakHillTerrace
Upon arriving at Oak Hill Terrace, the team first went to talk to the seniors who live at Oak Hill to help us determine what some existing problems the seniors are experiencing or have experienced. The team then went on a tour of the building compliments of Robert Best.
When we were talking to the seniors we asked them a lot of questions. They told us the many reasons why they moved to Oak Hill Terrace, why and how they need help. The seniors were very happy to answer all of the questions we asked and we got a lot of information from them. Some of the things we learned were that seniors are very afraid of falling and so a lot of them moved in to the building because they are scared and they feel safer there where they can get help 24 hours a day. Some of the seniors also live there because they felt that they could no longer keep up with the house work or because their husband/wife needed the assistance so they moved in together. Some of the seniors also admitted to moving to an assisted living facility because their children had requested the move feeling that their parents would be safer and better looked after there.
All of the residents indicated that they were happy living at Oak Hill Terrace and appreciate the variety and extensive list of daily assistance available to them.
We all learned a lot of helpful information from the seniors at Oak Hill Terrace and now feel like we have a better understanding of the trials seniors face as it relates to mobility, staying fit and staying connected.
Thank you again Robert Best and the Residents of Oak Hill Terrace.
Avery
Teamwork
Our team has some pictures from our teamwork exercises and from building the mission board. The links for them follow:
This is the link for Building the field elements. https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/2012BuildingTheFieldElements
This is the link for some of our teamwork fun. https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/TeamworkFun
And this is the link for teamwork exercises. https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/TeamworkExercises
We have a lot of fun on our team but we also are serious when we need to get stuff done. Even though we have more experienced members they don't do everything. The new team members are a large part of the operation also. We enjoy working and playing together and we also enjoy completing the tasks that are before us.
Avery
This is the link for Building the field elements. https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/2012BuildingTheFieldElements
This is the link for some of our teamwork fun. https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/TeamworkFun
And this is the link for teamwork exercises. https://picasaweb.google.com/112785021053295249322/TeamworkExercises
We have a lot of fun on our team but we also are serious when we need to get stuff done. Even though we have more experienced members they don't do everything. The new team members are a large part of the operation also. We enjoy working and playing together and we also enjoy completing the tasks that are before us.
Avery
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