Ms. Joyce

Ms. Joyce came over last week before Christmas and we talked about our research concept with her.  And she brought us a box of homemade chocolate.  What a great senior mentor!

Meeting at Copper Ridge

Today we met with the research coordinator at Copper Ridge, Larry Burrell.  We told him about our research product idea, and he had a lot of great suggestions about how our product could be used, and maybe improved.  We were really encouraged by what he had to say.  Thanks Mr. Burrell!

Our live moonbot outreach event is complete!

Today we completed our live outreach event at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center.  We will be uploading our final video soon, but special thanks to Michelle & Umar (pictured below) who helped get us setup in the conference center, as well as all of the people who stopped by to watch.  We had a great time.  All of our missions didn't work the first time, but we were able to show the kids who stopped to watch our programs how the robot works, and we even had someone ask how to get involved in FLL.  That's awesome!

Building our moonbot table

Today we were working on building our board for moonbots. We can't wait until we get to start programming!   ~Nathan

Our Senior Mentor - Ms. Joyce

Today we met with our senior mentor for the first time - Ms. Joyce.   We interviewed her about what she did as a child, things that might be harder for her now that she is older, and any advice she had for us.

Working on missions

We've been working on building our new robot.  The missions have been divided up, and each of our team members are going to take two missions to program.  We've also started working on the research project.  Each of our team members has come up with questions to ask our Senior Mentor - Ms. Joyce.  We're going to meet with her next week and hopefully come up with our topic for the research project.

Visit to Goddard Visitor Center!

Nathan and Brendan went to Goddard Visitor Center today to do a site visit.  It was cool.  The rocket garden and the auditorium would both be great places to hold our live webcast.

Starting Phase 2

Today we started learning about our lunar landscape .

 We also had a fun time together while enjoying our relaxing time .

  We sketched out our design on the tiles

We just started making our moon bots project so we can make it to Hawaii .We talked about the missions, where to put them and how many points they're worth .

 Will

We made it to Phase 2!!

We are so excited!  We checked the website last night and we made it to Phase 2 for the moonbot competition!  

Next we get to create our lunar landscape design and make up a mission for our robot.  We can't wait to get to work!

Moonbot Meeting

Today we had our last moonbot meeting to work on our video.   We are finally ready, consent forms are in, and hopefully we will make it to the next round!

June 27, 2012

Our New Website!

The Robotic Alliance is moving on to middle school, so we have to change our website.  No more Carrolltowne Elementary.

You can continue to see our travels during the 2011 FLL season at http://carrolltownefll.wordpress.com

But all of our future posts will be here, at our new home!

MoonBots 2012

5 of our 6 team members are participating in MoonBots 2012!  The boys are all excited to learn more about the Google LunarX challenge (and to win a trip to Hawaii!)

See more about Moonbots 2012 at http://www.moonbots.org!