Volunteering at our local qualifier

Last weekend, we went to one of our local qualifiers and volunteered.  We were referees, field resetters, announcers and helped queue the teams.  It was a lot of fun and nice to help out all the teams that were there.

Preparing for the state competition

We had a brainstorming session last night to see what, if anything, we want to change.  Everyone decided that we had changes to make in all 3 areas based on the judges comments.

Now we get to work!

Qualifier Results!

Congratulations to all of the teams at the Dragon qualifier today!  We were very excited to win the robot performance award with 305 points, and to win the 2nd place Championship Award!

We will see everyone at the state competition!

Sharing our ideas

On Monday, we went and shared our research ideas with two members of the community that we thought would benefit:  Dr. Thomas Hickey, a pediatrician with Liberty Pediatrics, and Eileen Osborne, and emergency room nurse with P.G. Hospital.  They both thought our ideas were great!

Qualifier date 12/15!!!

Well, it's a little sooner than we thought it would be, but we're getting ready for our qualifier date of 12/15. We've been focusing on teamwork and the research project lately and have some great ideas!  Our robot game is coming along too!

We're BACK!!!

We're back for the new season, Nature's Fury.  We have reviewed all of the missions and started working on our project.  We're going to be using the EV3 so we have a lot to learn.

We also have added a new member to our team.  Welcome Tyler!

FLL Global Innovations

Well, the season is over, but we're still going!

On Thursday, we are going to start teaching programming to two local Jr. FLL teams.

We also just posted our senior solutions product idea - LIFS (The Lifesaving Insert for Seniors) to the FLL Global Innovations site.  If you like our idea, please vote for us!

Good luck to everyone today!

We just want to wish everyone at the State competition good luck!  We've all worked hard and now it's time to have some fun!

The Robotic Alliance

Results of the Qualifier

We went to the qualifier at Marriott's Ridge High School yesterday and got the 3rd place Champion's award!  We are going to the state competition!!

Everyone did really great...and we had a great feedback for robot design, core values, and project judging.  We met today to see if we're going to make changes and we'll be meeting a couple of more times before Saturday.  Now we're off to work!

Good Luck Everyone!

Well, we're off to our qualifier tomorrow morning at MRHS.  Good luck to all the teams that will be competing!

Meeting at Fairhaven

We went to Fairhaven last night and met with Ms. Elise and the residents of the assisted living facility.  We shared our research project and product idea with them.  They were a great help.  Ms. Elise brought up questions that we hadn't even thought about, but her feedback was very positive.  And meeting the residents was great too!

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