Fundraising

We have great news! GE is going to sponsor our team again this year! This a huge development for our team as it costs quite a bit of money to buy LEGO NXT equipment and enter our team into tournaments, etc. We are thankful to GE for once again sponsoring us.

We are still looking for more sponsors to help fund our team. We have completed a fundraising letter and are sending out to grandmas and grandpas and other businesses too.

Avery

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Inspiration at the County Fair

A smiling little girl, with her eyes brightening, exclaimed, "I like Mindstorms now!" Though the girl had watched her brother on his robotics team before, she had seen little that held her interest. Moments before announcing her new-found fascination to her mother, she approached our team's robot, pressed the orange start button, and ran the LEGO NXT robot herself. She discovered the fun that FIRST LEGO League has promoted since 1999.

This was at the Waukesha County Fair where our team was privileged to bring that inspiration to her during our interactive demonstrations over the weekend. Young and old alike learned the benefits of being on an FLL team. From fun, to innovation, to teamwork and gracious professionalism, we shared how being on the T.E.A.M. helps young minds grow. Introducing robotics to fascinated youth and adults of all ages, and enlightening many to the world of robotics, our team looks forward to our next opportunity to share our passion for science, technology, engineering and math at the Wisconsin State Fair.

-Madeline

End of Season. . . But wait, there's more!

Our 2011 season has now officially ended. Since the state tournament we have continued being active in 4-H by:

• presenting our project and the spirit of FLL at the Waukesha Janboree.
• scoring blue ribbons at our 4-H County Fair judging.
• helping a Girl Scouts FLL team hone their skills in design, presentation, and organization.

Though three of our team members graduated from the team this year, we hope to see them return in a new role -- this time to mentor the TEAM. Now we move into our off-season meetings to learn, prepare, and share as much as we can. It's not too early to get ready for the fall 2012 season!

~Madeline

State Tournament Results

The teams at the tournament were all excellent, top-notch teams with engaging projects and remarkable robots, so we had stiff competition.

  

TEAM Temp-Assure's FLL state tournament experience -  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 following three awards as well:

1. Gracious Professionalism
2. Research
3. Inspiration
4. (Another team also nominated us for the Against All Odds award, but in the awards ceremony, we were not officially nominated for it)

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

  

Now we have another Lego trophy to add to our collection. TEAM Temp-Assure is still in surprised and excited shock, smiles everywhere. What an inspiring, and satisfactory day!

~Madeline

STATE!

State!!! We're a day away from the state tournament now! Oh so excited! Pack up the robot, gather the boards, ready your smiles, and all the rest, let's do our best! Ready? Can't wait to go, awards or no! Fun, fun, look out state, here we come!

-Madeline

Regional Tournament 2011

At the tournament yesterday our team had fourth place in robot score and we did great in the interviews.  Our team got the CHAMPIONS AWARD!  (That means that of the 30+ teams in attendance yesterday that we had the best overall team score).   And, we were nominated for robot design, project presentation, and core-values.  To say that we are excited, is a bit of an under-statement.  A lot of hard work and dedication, especially in the past 2 weeks, has really paid off.

We are moving on to the state competition in 3 weeks!  We want to have fun more than anything else, but we are going to keep working hard to improve our robot scores and we will continue to work on core values and teamwork.  We hope that the other teams have fun at state too and wish them the best of luck as well.

Good job to all the other teams, they did great.

Thanks for reading,

Avery

Click here for more pictures of our tournament.