Watching the World Festival

Congrats to Lego's in paradise for making it to the world festival. We wish you good luck in St Louis!

The Crushing Techno Tigers hope we can both go to the World Festival together for the Food Factor season!!

Your friend M'Ash' Potato

To all 2011 World Championship FIRST teams JrFLL, FLL, FTC & FRC

On behalf of FLL Team 2562 - Crushing Techno Tigers...

Good luck to all teams that earned the opportunity to attend the 2011 World Festival in St Louis and don't let the competition make you forget to simply enjoy the World Festival experience!!

Congratulations so the Crushing Techno Tigers!

Congratulations so the Crushing Techno Tigers on a fabulous season!

Last Lego blog update of the year.

In their very first year the Crushing Techno Tigers accomplished the following:

• Created a robot from a few buckets of individual legos
  
• Programmed the robot to successfully complete an impressive set of tasks
  
  • Many of these programs used complex code
• Gained the respect of many FLL teams through what their performance!
  
• Created a WILDLY successful blog!
  
  • 2,500 blog views
    
  • From 32 different countries
    
  • Learned what a blog was
    
  • Learned how to post to a blog
    
  • Learned a some fun information about the countries that viewed our blog
• Won 4th place overall in Flint (out of 56 total teams)
  
• Won a 1st place trophy for Innovation and Strategy
  
• Learned a TON while completing their research project
  
  • About the body, its functions and systems
    
  • About blood clots
    
  • About how to conduct an interview with professionals in the workforce
• Have programmed the robot to achieve 395 out a possible 400 points

This is merely a partial list!

The kids had my respect right from the very first meeting and I could not ask for a better crew to work with

Simply OUTSTANDING!!


- Coach Daddio

FLINT!

At Flint we got a 1st place trophy for our robot design and strategy!

For most of the day we were in 4th place with our robot score and then at the end we were tied for 9th place out of 56 teams! We were close to 200 points in robot score.

That's what happened in Flint.

Written by,

Northbound

M"Ash" Potato's thoughts on our first tournament - Flint Michigan, November 6th

On November 6th, 2010 we went to our first tournament! At the end we all got to dance. Soon the host said "TEAM 2562" to let us know we had won FIRST PLACE out of 56 teams for Innovation and Strategy for the robot! We went wild!!

Written by M"Ash" Potato

Lizard's thoughts on our first tournament - Flint Michigan, November 6th

Our team did a very good job at the Flint tournament.

For the robot challenge we finished tied for 9th place out of 56 teams and we won FIRST place for Innovation and Strategy. We were so excited!!

- Written by Lizard

Creature Man's thoughts on our first tournament - Flint Michigan, November 6th

It was sweet!

The pit area was cool... how all the teams were cheering and you could see all the team boards. People came around and gave candy, stickers, and 'suns'. The interviews were fun because the judges were funny. One judge saw the back of my t-shirt and he called me Creature Man.

My favorite interview was the technical one, because we were able to talk about how we built the robot, the attachments and the programming. Also the dancing part was a lot of fun especially to the song "Cotton Eyed Joe" at the end. It was awesome hearing our number called and going to slap all of the judges hands.

Written by Creature Man

A YouTube Channel is born.

There are a few videos on the YouTube Channel. One from the kids working over the summer and one that I was playing around with to tell friends an family about FLL without sound.

Click here! - View the Crushing Techno Tigers' YouTube Channel

Not much there but we're working on it :)

Adjustment to the attachment.

Today Lizard and I made an adjustment to the attachment on the robot to get even more points. We had to find the correct angles to make the new Lego's we added to the attachment fit. It took a while but we figured it out.

by M"Ash" Potato

More points !

Well, a CTT member came over to CTT-HQ the other day and made some LARGE strides with things that have been troubling the team. We now have a redesigned attachment, a different attachment 'adjusted' and a few programs worked on.

This work brings the probability of many more table points with the robot.


GREAT JOB TEAM!

brainstorming for the project

First we checked out our blog and saw pictures of us doing activities. Plus 565 people have visited our blog!

Then we brainstormed body parts, systems and functions. After listing the body parts, etc. each team member picked their favorite two items from the list.

Next Coach Daddio quizzed us on how many points each mission is worth. Then he placed mission pieces in various places on the challenge board and asked if we would get the points that the mission was worth.

Then we revealed our two favorite items from the list to the team. We were then split into different groups by Coach Daddio to share our ideas and study each others choices.

written by, Robotic Robo Rithik

A CTT Celebration - Body Forward Challenge Release Party

Well Tonight we partied... CTT style.

The team was anxiously awaiting the release of the challenge and we decided to have a party to celebrate the release of the 2010 Body Forward challenge. While we enjoyed some fun snacks and drinks we also explored:

- The field setup
- The rules
- The points

We also discussed:
- Robot and field strategy
- The details of the project

I am really impressed with the questions that this rookie team asked and the strategies that are already being discussed. The entire team is VERY excited and ready to get moving on the challenge!


The challenge release party begins.

The Crushing Techno Tigers explore the Robot Game Rules

Now this guy knows how to party eh?

Interview with Multiple Sclerosis Society - More Body Forward Research

Today the Crushing Techno Tigers and the Robo Hippies met with three wonderful people from the Multiple Sclerosis Society. The representatives from MS did a wonderful job explaining:
- What MS is
- Describing the how it is diagnosed
- Describing the many ways that it can affect people

The kids really enjoyed and learned a lot from the interview. A big hit with the kids was the "Try it on" program that was brought in by Tammy, Bris and Lennie. This consisted of four stations, that the kids rotated through, that enabled them to learn what it might be like to accomplish 'every day' tasks if they were to have MS. It is one thing to discuss what the symptoms are it is another to really try simple things like buttoning up a shirt when you can't feel the buttons with your fingers or how tiring it can be to walk 10 feet when your fighting to keep your balance and your ankles feel like they weigh 10 pounds each.

Simply a wonderful experience.