NYC Teams as of Sept. 28, 2012

Team#	School Number
382	PS 15K
519	Brics-2-Bots
533	MS 67Q
671	St. Edmunds Elementary School
883	PS 76X The Bennington School
926	IS 24 SI
927	IS 24 SI
928	IS 24 SI
929	IS 24 SI
1231	IS 119 Q
1233	IS 119 Q
1235	CS 66 X
1318	PS 195X
1403	PS 71Q
1423	Metropolitan Montessori School
1489	IS 318K
1497	IS 318K
1698	Packer Collegiate Inst.
1702	Packer Collegiate Inst.
1749	RMS @ I. S. 192
1917	Salve Regina Catholic Academy
1979	PS 148Q
1990	PS 148Q
2048	IS 383 K Philippa Schuyler MS
2216	PS 11 M
2331	PS 8 K
2332	PS 8 K
2518	Eltingville Lutheran School
2612	LREI Little Red School House
2707	MS 137Q
2713	MS 216Q George Ryan
2801	PS 166M
3447	NYC Parks Dept. Cromwell Center
3448	NYC Parks Dept. Cromwell Center
3449	NYC Parks Dept. Cromwell Center
3515	The Garden School
3516	The Garden School
3541	PS 94 K
3542	Cambria Center
3543	PS 94 K
3732	Frederick Douglass Academy
3916	PS126/Manhattan Academy of Technology
3967	IS 27 SI
3969	IS 27 SI
3970	IS 27 SI Prall
4094	Forest Hills Robotics
4095	Forest Hills Robotics
4096	Forest Hills Robotics
4097	Forest Hills Robotics
4113	NYC Parks & Recreation - Bronx Division
4191	Dalton
4192	Dalton
4194	Dalton
4195	Dalton
4289	PS 1 M
4442	RoboMindTech
4443	RoboMindTech
4603	Hunter College Campus
4604	Queens Robotics Club
4605	Hunter College Campus
4712	Riverdale Country School
4739	Resurrection Ascension
4865	Say Yes to Education, Teachers College
5027	PS 94Q
5028	IS 75 SI
5030	IS 75 SI
5042	East Fordham Academy for the Arts
5086	Brics-2-Bots
5908	St. Clare School
5909	St. Clare School
5910	St. Clare School
5911	St. Clare School
6225	PS 28M Wright Brothers
6387	Counseling In Schools, Inc. IS 303M
6387	Counseling In Schools, Inc. IS 303M
6481	PS154 After School Program
6488	University Settlement Beacon Program
6635	Blue Devils
7191	The Trinity School
7398	PS 399 K Stanley Eugene Clarke
7401	PS 21K Crispus Attucks School
7404	PS 233K  Langston Hughes
7405	PS 11K  Purvis J Behan School
7406	MS 113K Ronald Edmonds Learning Center
7407	PS 636 K Young Scholars’ Academy for Discovery and
7408	IS 318K
7409	Urban Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young Women
7410	PS 9K Teunis G. Bergen
7411	Mott Hall Bridges Academy
7412	PS 3K The Bedford Village School
7413	PS 256K Benjamin Banneker Elementary
7414	PS 5K
7415	MS 366K
7416	PS 628K Brooklyn Brownstone
7419	PS 270 K The Dekalb School
7420	Community Partnership Charter School
7424	Ron Brown Academy MS 57
7425	The New Lots Schools PS 213K
7427	Madiba Prep MS
7553	Riverdale MS Robotics
7559	Community Roots school
7756	Good Shepherd Services
7844	PS 321K
8110	Horace Mann School
8135	Horace Mann School
8314	Bronx Charter School for Excellence
8432	The Chapin School
8434	The Chapin School
8539	PS 155k Robotics
8793	PS 57 SI
9392	IS 49Q
9591	Home School
10103	Petrides School
10452	IS 98 X Herman Ridder
10461	Manhattan Youth @IS 289 M
10464	Manhattan Youth IS 276
10467	Manhattan Youth @IS 289 M
10468	Manhattan Youth @IS 289 M
10623	Riverdale Country School
10651	Immaculate Conception School
10652	NYC Lab  Middle School
10656	NYC Lab  Middle School
10773	PS 92K Adrian Hegeman
11810	Family Life Academy Charter School
11993	MS 442 New Horizons
12177	Packer Collegiate Inst.
12179	Packer Collegiate Inst.
12428	St. HOPE Leadership Academy Charter School
12434	St. HOPE Leadership Academy Charter School
12505	Genesis at Xaverian
12735	Genesis at Xaverian
12831	The Young Womens’ Leadership School TYWLS BK
12834	NYC Center for Space Science Education
13048	New World Prep
13263	Dwight School
13273	Sunset Park Prep MS 821K
13305	Graham WIndham -
13309	Edward Bleeker JHS 185
13469	RoboMindTech
13518
13561	IS 131 X
13665	PS/MS 194
13665	British International School of NY
13778	Inwood Academy for Leadership
13780	Inwood Academy for Leadership
13794	Counseling In Schools, Inc. IS 303M
13859	Fort Greene Prep Academy
14067	Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School
14535	Genesis at Xaverian
14617	The Trinity School
14753	PS 128Q Juniper Valley
14793	PS 256K Benjamin Banneker Elementary
14806	Friends Seminary FSNYC
14856	Hunter College Campus
14859	PS 128Q Juniper Valley
14887	PS 89 The Williamsbridge School
15040	MS 50 Williamsburg Middle School
15100	Synchronicity / SynchroNYCITY
15139	Riverdale Country School
15149	Louis Armstrong IS 227 Q
15153	Louis Armstrong IS 227 Q
15247	The Gateway School
15362	Forest Hills Robotics
15364	Bronx Park MS
15551	Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School
15573	Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School
15636	Genesis at Xaverian
15752	IS 49 SI

FLL Kickoff Schedule - Saturday September 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM-2:00

Hello All,

You are cordially invited to join us at this upcoming weekend FLL Kickoff Event at POLY UNIVERSITY in BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Below is the day’s schedule.  I strongly urge VOLUNTEERS to join our VOLUNTEER WORKSHOP in which we will be giving more in depth volunteer description opportunities for all FIRST Programs and how you can join in early in the season.  Also, if you have any friends/work colleagues/family members, etc that are interested, bring them along.  Apart from this workshop, this season’s FLL game will be presented in detail and many other great things you can participate in.

Hope to see you all there.

NYC FIRST LEGO League Kickoff

Saturday September 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM-2:00 PM

Polytechnic Institute of NYU

6 Metrotech Center Brooklyn, NY 11201

Agenda:

10:00-10:20 AM: Welcome & Introductions (Pfizer Auditorium, 5 MetroTech Center)

10:25-10:40 AM: Senior Solutions Challenge Overview (Pfizer Auditorium)

10:40-11:15 AM: Judging Rules Overview (Pfizer Auditorium)

11:15-1:15 PM: Rookie Team Workshop (How to organize your team, project overview; game strategies, robot design, & NXT software tips) (JAB - Room 474)

11:15-12:15 PM: Jr. FLL Workshop Super Seniors (How to register, run and prepare for the JrFLL Expo) (JAB - Room 475)

11:15-12:15 PM: Volunteer Workshop (What is FIRST, volunteer position descriptions) (Pfizer Auditorium, 5 MetroTech Center)

11:15-2:00 PM: Game Overview (All Teams) (Rogers Hall [RH] - Room 116)

If any questions, please feel free to contact me at email below.

Elizabeth Almonte

NYC FIRST Volunteer Coordinator

Email: ealmonte311@gmail.com

 

FIRST in the News

TechScape: Dean Kamen & FIRST ... Perhaps His Greatest Invention

Huffington post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

billrobinson/techscape-dean-
kamen-firs_b_1632659.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false  



http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/

video?id=8751722

NXT Error Code 1003 Patch

We are getting an error code on the computer for the NXT. It is error code 1003. I reinstalled everything and it it still coming up. 


Have them try this:

http://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/1015/how-to-fix-mindstorms-error-code-1003


Here is a link to the patch.


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2012 SENIOR SOLUTIONS Challenge

Coming August 28, 2012
See full schedule (US/CAN)

Can FIRST® LEGO® League teams improve the quality of life for seniors by helping them continue to be independent, engaged, and connected in their communities? In the 2012 SENIOR SOLUTIONS^SM Challenge, over 200,000 children ages 9 to16* from more than 60 countries will explore the topic of aging and how it may affect a person’s ability to maintain his or her lifestyle – solving issues like getting around, keeping in touch, or staying fit. Teams will research obstacles and then suggest ways to improve the quality of life for the seniors affected. Teams will also build, test, and program an autonomous robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS® robot to solve a set of missions on an obstacle course.  Throughout their experience, teams will operate under FLL’s signature set of Core Values.

*9-14 in the US, Canada, and Mexico

Download the SENIOR SOLUTIONS logo

NYC Champs at FLL World Invitational Open Florida

by Veryl Greene, coach of roboGbots


May 9, 2012

Hi Norm,

Sunshine, palm trees, interesting folks and robots; what a great combination! "Robots in Paradise" - The FLL World Invitational Open in Florida was FANTASTIC! It took place at the All Saints Academy in Winter Haven, Florida with the Opening Ceremony taking place outside on the athletic field; where we also had a teams dinner and dance under a clear sky and the SuperMoon on the last night. The Closing Ceremony took place at LEGOLAND; how kool is that!

Sixty-three teams came from all over the U.S. and the world. The spirit of Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition was everywhere as teams networked, exchanged ideas, exchanged e-mails for e-pals, joined facebook pages, even played soccer and dodge ball together on the football field.

The robots were AWESOME and research projects were OUTSTANDING!

One of the highlights of games was the Blind Pirate's Challenge where teams were randomly paired as alliance teams to run the robot performance game together on the same table - two robots on the table at the same time!!! Talk about Coopertition and fun. There was also an impromptu Robot Derby to honor the running of the Kentucky Derby that Saturday.

Though the roboGbots didn't win anything (this time)...

Core Value 5: "What we discovered was more important than what we might have won."

because...

Core Value 4: "We all honored the spirit of friendly competition."

Core Value 6: "We shared our experience with so many others."

and

Core Value 8: "We had FUN!"

The roboGbots

V. "L3Go-Bots Lady" Greene

You're Invited to the 2012 FIRST Championship

Making a Quiet Idea Loud Two decades ago, FIRST® began as an idea in the mind of Founder Dean Kamen. It was a big idea, but it was a quiet idea. Since then, that idea has grown not only in scope but also in volume, and has exploded into one that is loud enough for all the world to hear. Indeed, they are listening. Although that idea and its message have increased in volume, it is still the same: to help young people transform our culture by discovering the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and apply what they learn as future science and technology leaders.  Thanks to a diverse group of dignitaries and luminaries in the arenas of government, media, entertainment, literature, and business, this important message is now being heard around the world. Among those making sure the message is loud and clear are music mogul, tech entrepreneur, and The Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am; Academy Award-winning actor, director, and narrator Morgan Freeman; respected CNN journalist Soledad O’Brien; Neal Bascomb, author of “The New Cool” — an inspiring book about FIRST; and U.S. President Barack Obama, who recognized our efforts at the annual White House Science Fair. In addition, three out of every five of America’s Fortune 500 corporations now support or sponsor FIRST teams and events.  While we deeply appreciate all that these folks have done on behalf of FIRST, our goals would not be attainable without the help of the hundreds of thousands of participants, Mentors, Coaches, Sponsors, parents, teachers, and Volunteers who have helped our organization grow from its original 28 teams in 1992, to the more than 26,000 teams from over 60 countries around the world today. Indeed, they are our loudest advocates and we encourage them to keep talking. Because of their tireless efforts, nearly 300,000 kids have an opportunity to transform their ideas — big or small — into reality. We are extremely proud of all that has been accomplished and, in fact, surpassed in the past twenty-plus years and invite you to celebrate with us at the annualFIRST Championship, which will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, April 25 - 28, 2012. More than 12,000 team members will participate in the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) Championship (400 teams); FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®) World Championship (128 teams); FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) World Festival(78 teams); and the Junior FIRST® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL®) World Festival Expo(40 teams). As always, our teams are invigorated, energized, and inspired to meet the challenges of this year’s games.              FRC teams will take to the field to compete in Rebound Rumble℠, where fast robots score basketballs in hoops and balance on bridges in the grand finale of the match. In the FTC BOWLED OVER!℠ game, robots must be robust enough to push a bowling ball uphill, yet sophisticated enough to pick up racquetballs and place them into crates, and stack the crates to score points. In the FOOD FACTOR®Challenge, FLL teams build, test, and program an autonomous robot to solve a set of food safety missions and improve the quality of food by finding ways to prevent food contamination. Our youngest scientists explore where food comes from and what it takes to keep our food safe, fresh, and healthy in the Jr.FLL SNACK ATTACK℠ Challenge. As we head into our 23rd year, we know there will always be more work to do, but we are heartened by the groundswell of support we continue to receive. While we welcome the competitive challenges ahead, we know that FIRST is about more than just competitions. It is also about the critical life skills our team members learn — such as creative problem solving, collaboration, and teamwork — that will guide them in their mission to transform the world through innovation, science, and technology.  Please join us as we listen to what they have to say — and discover what all the noise is about. Click on Championship links to the left for additional event details.See you there! The FIRST Staff THANK YOU! To our 2012 FIRST Championship Sponsors...  Official Championship Sponsor: Qualcomm Foundation; Lead Championship Sponsors: Abbott, Autodesk, The Boeing Company, SAIC, Saint Louis Science Center, Siemens, U.S. Air Force, and United Technologies; FIRST Championship Sponsors: Coca-Cola and National Defense Education Program (NDEP); FIRST Shipping Sponsor: FedEx; Machine Shop & Satellite Broadcast Sponsor: NASA; FIRST Safety Partner: UL; FIRST LEGO League World Festival Pit Sponsor: Intel; FIRST Event Sponsor: Google Inc.; FIRST Robotics Conference Sponsor: Rolls-Royce; Championship Supporters: Army’s Rapid Equipment Force, Avnet, Central Intelligence Agency, and International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)Our Founding Sponsors... Boston Scientific Corporation, Baxter International Inc., The Chrysler Foundation, DEKA Research & Development, Delphi, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Motorola, Inc., and Xerox Corporation And our Strategic Partners... BAE Systems, The Boeing Company, DEKA Research & Development, FedEx Corporation, General Motors Corporation, jcpenney, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola Solutions Foundation, NASA, National Instruments, PTC, Rockwell Automation, Rockwell Collins, and Time Warner Cable FIRST • 200 Bedford St., Manchester, NH 03101 • (800) 871-8326 • www.usfirst.org Our Vision: "...to transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders." Dean Kamen, Founder.

April 2012 FIRST Notes FIRST Championship April 25-28, 2012 St. Louis, Missouri Join us! Free event Spectators welcome Spectator schedule St. Louis visitors' info FIRST on social media Mobile resources coming soon... watch for details on the Web, Twitter,  Facebook, and blogs Can't Attend? * View NASA Webcast via link from FIRST homepage Championship Highlights * FLL Friendship Day, hosted by the Saint Louis Science Center... teams from 30+ countries  to be greeted by St. Louis  FLL teams * Scholarship Row featuring 40+ schools  and organizations * FIRST Sponsor &  Alliance exhibits * Supplier Showcase exhibits by 15+ FRC Kit of Parts Suppliers * Hall of Fame display of FRC Chairman's Award teams * Dozens of workshops at the  FIRST Robotics  Conference * FIRST Event at the Ballpark* FIRST Night Out in St. Louis * Commemorative  merchandise Volunteer Opportunities Are Still Available! Sign up today Volunteer Orientation * Virtual/Webinars Tuesday, April 10  at 7:00PM EST Wednesday, April 18  at 8:30PM EST * Onsite Wednesday, April 25  at 6:00PM CDT More info and recordings of Virtual Orientation Webinars Making a Quiet Idea Loud Two decades ago, FIRST® began as an idea in the mind of Founder Dean Kamen. It was a big idea, but it was a quiet idea. Since then, that idea has grown not only in scope but also in volume, and has exploded into one that is loud enough for all the world to hear. Indeed, they are listening. Although that idea and its message have increased in volume, it is still the same: to help young people transform our culture by discovering the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and apply what they learn as future science and technology leaders.  Thanks to a diverse group of dignitaries and luminaries in the arenas of government, media, entertainment, literature, and business, this important message is now being heard around the world. Among those making sure the message is loud and clear are music mogul, tech entrepreneur, and The Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am; Academy Award-winning actor, director, and narrator Morgan Freeman; respected CNN journalist Soledad O’Brien; Neal Bascomb, author of “The New Cool” — an inspiring book about FIRST; and U.S. President Barack Obama, who recognized our efforts at the annual White House Science Fair. In addition, three out of every five of America’s Fortune 500 corporations now support or sponsor FIRST teams and events.  While we deeply appreciate all that these folks have done on behalf of FIRST, our goals would not be attainable without the help of the hundreds of thousands of participants, Mentors, Coaches, Sponsors, parents, teachers, and Volunteers who have helped our organization grow from its original 28 teams in 1992, to the more than 26,000 teams from over 60 countries around the world today. Indeed, they are our loudest advocates and we encourage them to keep talking. Because of their tireless efforts, nearly 300,000 kids have an opportunity to transform their ideas — big or small — into reality. We are extremely proud of all that has been accomplished and, in fact, surpassed in the past twenty-plus years and invite you to celebrate with us at the annualFIRST Championship, which will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, April 25 - 28, 2012. More than 12,000 team members will participate in the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) Championship (400 teams); FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®) World Championship (128 teams); FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) World Festival(78 teams); and the Junior FIRST® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL®) World Festival Expo(40 teams). As always, our teams are invigorated, energized, and inspired to meet the challenges of this year’s games.              FRC teams will take to the field to compete in Rebound Rumble℠, where fast robots score basketballs in hoops and balance on bridges in the grand finale of the match. In the FTC BOWLED OVER!℠ game, robots must be robust enough to push a bowling ball uphill, yet sophisticated enough to pick up racquetballs and place them into crates, and stack the crates to score points. In the FOOD FACTOR® Challenge, FLL teams build, test, and program an autonomous robot to solve a set of food safety missions and improve the quality of food by finding ways to prevent food contamination. Our youngest scientists explore where food comes from and what it takes to keep our food safe, fresh, and healthy in the Jr.FLLSNACK ATTACK℠ Challenge. As we head into our 23rd year, we know there will always be more work to do, but we are heartened by the groundswell of support we continue to receive. While we welcome the competitive challenges ahead, we know that FIRST is about more than just competitions. It is also about the critical life skills our team members learn — such as creative problem solving, collaboration, and teamwork — that will guide them in their mission to transform the world through innovation, science, and technology.  Please join us as we listen to what they have to say — and discover what all the noise is about. Click on Championship links to the left for additional event details.See you there! The FIRST Staff THANK YOU! To our 2012 FIRST Championship Sponsors...  Official Championship Sponsor: Qualcomm Foundation; Lead Championship Sponsors: Abbott, Autodesk, The Boeing Company, SAIC, Saint Louis Science Center, Siemens, U.S. Air Force, and United Technologies; FIRST Championship Sponsors: Coca-Cola and National Defense Education Program (NDEP); FIRST Shipping Sponsor: FedEx; Machine Shop & Satellite Broadcast Sponsor: NASA; FIRST Safety Partner: UL; FIRST LEGO League World Festival Pit Sponsor: Intel; FIRST Event Sponsor: Google Inc.; FIRST Robotics Conference Sponsor: Rolls-Royce; Championship Supporters: Army’s Rapid Equipment Force, Avnet, Central Intelligence Agency, and International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)Our Founding Sponsors... Boston Scientific Corporation, Baxter International Inc., The Chrysler Foundation, DEKA Research & Development, Delphi, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Motorola, Inc., and Xerox Corporation And our Strategic Partners... BAE Systems, The Boeing Company, DEKA Research & Development, FedEx Corporation, General Motors Corporation, jcpenney, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola Solutions Foundation, NASA, National Instruments, PTC, Rockwell Automation, Rockwell Collins, and Time Warner Cable FIRST • 200 Bedford St., Manchester, NH 03101 • (800) 871-8326 • www.usfirst.org Our Vision: "...to transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders."Dean Kamen, Founder.