World Maker Faire at the NY Hall of Science

Jeanne Boyarsky and I are attempting to pull together a coalition of FIRST FRC Teams for the World Maker Faire at the NY Hall of Science at the end of September. Please read the email below and forward it far and wide. I would definitely be interested in getting the FLL and FTC teams on board, but wanted to start small with the FRC teams.

Warm regards,

Norm Sutaria

5/6/10

Dear FRC Teams,

As volunteers at the 2010 NYC Regional, it was a pleasure meeting and helping each and every one of your teams as your robots, drivers, spotters and human players made their way onto the competition field.

We're writing to let you know that the World Maker Faire (http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2010/callformakers/) is taking place on September 25th and 26th, 2010 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY and guess what? The event organizers are looking for participants.

This event could serve as a wonderful community outreach project/recruitment tool for FIRST teams from across the tri-state area.

We would like to see if your team is interested in participating and, if so, we would enjoy coordinating a coalition of teams to introduce the general public to FIRST and FRC. (Imagine having a Breakaway field and teams scrimmaging against one another in addition to information stations and activities for spectators.)

The "Call For Makers" is already underway and, with the end of the school year rapidly approaching, time is of the essence.

Fill out this Google Form to let us know if your team is interested and to provide us with contact information. We're looking to set up a wiki and/or a meeting to generate some ideas once we determine which teams would be interested in taking part.

Please feel free to forward this email to any teams you think might be interested and contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Warm regards,

Norm Sutaria

Jeanne Boyarsky

Norm Sutaria
Lead Team Queueing Volunteer, FRC
NYC Regional 2009, 2010
normsutaria@gmail.com
(201)401-9475

Jeanne Boyarsky
Java Programming Mentor
Team 694 - Stuy Pulse
nyjeanne@gmail.com

Registration is OPEN for the 2010-11 Season

Registration

Reminder: FLL registration opens May 3rd (that’s this Monday!) at 12:00pm EST –
https://gofll.usfirst.org/

World Festival

World Festival was a huge success thanks to the many wonderful volunteers and
teams. A special thank you from FLL Engineer, Scott Evans, can be found here:
www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/fll/content.aspx?id=17092

Also, check out the awesome photos (www.usfirst.org/fllwf) and relive some of
the excitement by viewing past tweets on our Twitter account.

More than Robots

FIRST is “more than robots”. Find out what Dean has to say -
www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/fll/content.aspx?id=17057


May Video Call-out

We want to know what YOUR LEGO minifigs do at night! Check out the call-out
video on www.youtube.com/fllglobal and post a video response.


Technical Difficulties

Anything sent to the fllteams@usfirst.org since last Thursday should be resent
if you have not already received a response. We were experiencing technical
difficulties with our email system.


Twitter

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for the latest and greatest from FLL HQ:
www.twitter.com/firstlegoleague



With High 5's and Admiration,

FLL Team Support

Photos from tournaments in Spain this past year

David Serra, a teacher in Barcelona who runs the tournaments in Spain (I worked with him at the tournament in Tokyo 2 years ago), sent these along. David will be in Atlanta with the Spanish champion next week for the World Festival.

Ibiza




Madrid

Museum of Natural History Robotics for Kids April 11, 18, & 25th, 2010 from 11:00am - 1:00pm

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The Adventures of Robo-Jones…

The AMNH (American Museum of Natural History) in NYC is having a parent & child (3^rd-5^th graders) workshop to learn about the cultures of the ancient Mayan, Aztec, & Olmec cultures; and then each Parent-child team collaborates in designing, building, & programming NXT robots to simulate exploring an ancient temple on an archaeological dig to collect artifacts.

The instructor, Veryl Greene – former FLL coach, has been teaching “Robots in Space” at the museum, where kids learn about the Rovers that explored the Moon & Mars, then they design, build, & program their own robots with Mindstorms NXT kits.

The workshop is scheduled for April 11, 18, & 25th, 2010 from 11:00am - 1:00pm. Space is limited. To learn more about the workshop & sign-up contact Siva Ramakrishnan:

http://www.amnh.org/education/students/offering.php?id=526

NYCFIRST FLL Award Winners Championship 2010 at Javits

Schedules for Javits- Click to enlarge

Pit Tables for Javits on Mar. 14

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80 FLL Teams for Javits, March 14, 2010, Sorted by Borough

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Team#	School Number	Team Name
77	PS/IS 123 X	Robowaves
291	Pablo Casals MS 181x	Climate Crusaders
968	CS 66 X	CS66 B.R.A.T.S
1670	PS 76X The Bennington School	76ers
2562	IS 98 X Herman Ridder	Ridder Kids
2637	Pelham Academy	Eagles
3074	IS 125 X Henry Hudson	Henry Hudson Lego Explorers
4161	Bronx Latin MS	Architecti
6498	Archimedes Academy for Math, Science & Technology	The Boogie Down Bots
7721	PS 103 x	RoboBeez
7722	PS 103 x	Robo Stingerz
7752	The Urban Institute of Mathematics	XLR8RS
8197	PS 121 X	Storm Throopers
9320	PS 153 x	Robotronics
2637	Pelham Academy	Eagles
111	St. Edmund Elementary School	Nerd Herd
316	MS 51K	Area 51
462	PS 94 K	PS 94 Robotics
471	PS 94 K	PS 94 Knights
528	Genesis at Xaverian	Genesis at Xaverian
1381	Bedford Academy	Bedford Bots
2012	IS 318	Blood, Sweat, and Gears!
2223	PS 58 The Carroll School	Team 1
2488	Packer Collegiate Inst.	Bob 2
2677	Academy for College Preparation and Career Exploration	Team Cobra
2776	PS 21K Crispus Attucks School	The Crispus Attucks' Panthers Robotics Team
2875	PS 8 K	8-bots
3151	Sunset Park Prep MS 821K	Lego My Eggo
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5973	PS 11K Purvis J Behan School	Mission 11
6505	PS 636 K Young Scholars’ Academy for Discovery and	YSADE Boogie Bots
6513	MS 88 K	Masterminds
6539	PS 233K Langston Hughes	The Golden Legolites
6754	MS 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center	Falcon Robotic All-Stars
7601	Benjamin Banneker Academy K	Warrior Bots
8451	PS 399 K Stanley Eugene Clarke	PS 399 Gear Hawks
9817	IS 318	Nano Knytes/IS318
9846	Packer Collegiate Inst.	Bob 4
1417	Dalton	Duallock Destroyers
2653	Trevor Day School	The Little Dragons
3431	Dalton	NXT Angels
3432	Dalton	Roaring Robots
3433	Dalton	District 89
3895	Think Robot, LLC	Yipbotics
6244	The Gateway School	The Inside Bots
6362	Dwight School	Dwight School Robotics
7717	East Harlem Tutorial	Little Warriors of EHTP
8653	LREI Little Red School House & Elizabeth Irwin HS	LREI Knights
8654	LREI Little Red School House & Elizabeth Irwin HS	LREI Squires
9031	The Anderson School PS 334M	Anderson Dragons
9057	Manhattan Youth @IS 289 M	Cougars
9498	PS/MS 108 Angelo Del Toro	Robotransfusion
9587	Dutchman	Dutchman
10204	Frederick Douglass Academy	FDA LEGO Raidaz
344	PS 148Q	Mission Masters 2
733	MS 67Q	Boggie Bot
876	Forest Hills Team	Mindstorm Mechanics
1732	Cambria Center	Cambria Warbots
2280	IS 119 Q	TopGearz
2283	IS 119 Q	SuperBotz
2320	IS 125 Q	Mr. Roboto
2382	MS 216Q George Ryan	Ryan Lions
3241	PS 128Q Juniper Valley	Zwicker
3348	Resurrection Ascension	RA Tech Titans
3644	Edward Bleeker JHS 185	Bleeker Techies
3734	The Garden School	Roboneers
9325	Forest Hills Team	Robo Squad
9370	Louis Armstrong IS 227 Q	LAMChops Old Schoolers
9514	Planetary Forces	Planetary Forces
67	IS 24 SI	Blast Bots
1496	IS 72 SI	Bulldogs
1851	Staten Island Tech HS	Tech Knows
2497	IS 49 SI	Drefus Seekers
2823	Coen	Micro Bots
2831	IS 75 SI	Lady Robo-Panthers
3396	PS 57 SI	PS 57 Robotics Team
4803	St. Clare School	Transformers 1
4814	St. Clare School	Transformers 1
4825	St. Clare School	Transformers 1
8689	St. John's Lutheran School	Lego Leaders
8693	NYC Parks Dept. Cromwell Center	Parks Wizards

St.Clare's of Staten Island Holds Public Forum on Smart Moves Research

Hi Norm,

St. Clare's School held a public forum at its Great Kills (Staten Island) school in late January to present its Smart Move research to the community. Below is a link to an article on the FLL team's segment that appeared in the Staten Island Advance. The event drew over 200 guests and featured a special guest speaker, Mary Mattingly from the Waterpod Project.

Our four FLL teams focused on transportation options for our school, ranging from a bike program for older students, to cars with hybrid or air compression engines, and solar-powered buses with improved seat belts. The story deals exclusively with the bike proposal but each team focused on a specific idea.

We also had our new Jr. FLL teams there (eight teams) showing all kinds of projects like solar powered kiddie cars, tree houses that could accommodate special needs children, new safety features for ferries, special emergency devices to help people exit from buildings on fire, and more.

Our older FTC students were helping oversee the younger teams for me and assisting with all technical aspects of the presentation. It was a true collaborative effort!

Here is the link to the story:

http://www.silive.com/southshore/index.ssf/2010/02/techno-take_on_school_traffic.html

Mary Lee

St. Clare's School, Staten Island

NYCFIRST FLL Regional at Javits Basic Information

Posted at: http://nycnjfirst.njit.edu/nyc_fll.html

2009 - 2010 New York City FIRST LEGO League

This year’s New York City FIRST LEGO League Championship is being held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on Sunday, March 14 as part of New York City’s FIRST Mega-Celebration.

Eighty winning teams selected from among nearly 200 that competed at five borough FLL qualifying tournaments will be in-line for New York City’s top honors.

The 2010 New York City FIRST LEGO League Championship is free and open to the public. Bring family and friends and be part of the New York City’s celebration of kids working smart in science and technology!

Venue Address:

Jacob Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001

Need directions to the venue? Click here
For parking information Click here
For public transportation information Click here

Event Schedule

8:00 AM - FLL Pits Open - FLL Teams Arrive - Robot Inspections Begin

8:30 AM - Jr.FLL Pits Open - Jr.FLL Teams Arrive

8:30 AM - Judging begins for teams in pits 1-32

8:50 AM - Coach's Meeting

9:30 AM - FLL/Jr.FLL Opening Ceremonies

10:10 AM - Competition rounds begin

12:10 PM - FLL Lunch / Jr.FLL Closing ceremonies

12:50 PM - Competition matches resume

3:30 PM - FLL closing ceremonies

*These times are approximate, depending on how quickly we progress through the matches. Announcements will be made throughout the day to keep you informed.

Food Services:

A public café will be set up within our New York City FIRST hall at the Javits Center. Vendors and seating will be available in the café area. Food may be brought into the venue.

For a list of food concessions with the Javits Center, please click HERE.

For a list of local restaurants, please click HERE

Contact:

For additional information, please contact Mark Sharfshteyn at msharf@optonline.net or (347) 739-1836.