Thank you Bill Welch!

A HUGE thank you from the entire CTT team to Bill Welch, the tournament director for the Flint State Tournament for making this opportunity possible for us. It is just amazing all that he has done for so many teams and specifically kids!

Down to the wire!

OK, we are down to 2 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes. Almost game time for these incredibly talented and impressive kids! Boarding the plane in less than 1 day! Bring on Florida :)

33 days

There are 33 more days until our tournament in Winter Haven, Florida! We are very excited but falling behind. We have to do a lot of work but we are getting there. Good luck to all the other teams attending the tournament.

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Pack your bags ctt members, were going to Florida. The crushing techno tigers did not win the state tournament but did receive a beautiful yellow trophy. I thought our season was over .................. but it's not. We received an invitation a world tournament in Winter Haven, Florida!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Mr. Welch for supporting our team, and recommending us for such a big tournament, our season would be over if it weren't for you:)

FLL World Invitational Tournament!!

Congratulations to the entire Crushing Techno Tiger team on their well deserved invitation to the FLL World Invitational Tournament in Winter Haven, Florida!

Happy Holidays!

Hi Everyone,


Happy Holidays to all from the Crushing Techno Tigers!

Fun time at Flint

I had a fun time at flint yesterday we watched teams compete and have a great time. Congratulations to the Sharks for winning the FLL state tournament and making it to the World Festival!! Good luck in St. Louis and have fun.

Also congratulations to The Force for earning runner up!


- M'Ash' Potato

Good luck!

Good luck to all teams at the Flint State tournament!!

We are very excited and can't wait :)

We're going to state

Yesterday was amazing !!!!!!! As our team cheered and chanted throughout the day, we really worked hard. From interviews to robot runs to wishing teams good luck in the hall. When we saw multiple callbacks in the coaches hands, we were going nuts. Watching rookie teams have a great day, and watching one of the few get second place. It felt outstanding winning a trophy for our robot design. Best of all hearing our name ( crushing techno tigers)get called, and we ran up to get the certificate to state, was breathtaking. December 10th is going to be the second best moment of the season. The first was having our start of the season party(with Coach Daddio's cool hat) and seeing the team together for the first time this season. Also seeing my brothers team succeed and make it to state, and win the tournament. I'm so glad our teams season did not end this early in the year. State here we come.

By M'Ash' Potato

Andover high school practice tournament

I had a great time at the Andover high school practice tournament yesterday. I was glad to see all of the teams having a great time. I especially enjoyed seeing the Bearded Dragons doing great robot runs as a rookie team. I even forgot they were a rookie team! I am so glad my teammate Northbound and I could make it. Because we had a blast with everyone. Good luck at regional.

-M'Ash' Potato

Teamwork Challenges !!!

To get ready for the upcoming tournament season we are engaging in various 'teamwork' activities.  It has been a while since we had one and at this meeting the team quickly demonstrated to me why we had such a great first season.  To coin a known FLL phrase...   "We are a TEAM" :)


While there is certainly things we can and should improve upon, the kids did a wonderful job handling the 'monkey wrenches' i threw at them.

I am really lucky to be working with these kids!

THEY are teaching ME a lot!

Hey out there....

Want to give a big shout out to some of our FLL friends. Some by team name others by team number :)

• Robo Hippies (Troy, MI) - Team 466
• Bearded Dragons (Commerce, MI)
• SnackTech (Philadelphia, PA) - Team 4453
• Funky Foodies (Philadelphia, PA) - Team 4455

Good luck this season we look forward to hearing about all your successes!

Signed...   The entire Crushing Techno Tigers team!

Food Factor Is Here!

We had a blast at our release party celebration!

The board looks challenging & fun. The project seems really interesting and the kids are off checking out their kitchens, refrigerators and pantries :)

Good Luck to everyone this season!

Food Factor challenge release is almost here!!

So, the release is in a few short days and the Crushing Techno Tigers are EXCITED!

We have our release party all set and can't wait to discover what the full challenge contains. I'm not sure what the kids are more excited about the robot or the project :)

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Food Factor season is here!!

Our 'special package' arrived!!

Last night we gathered, talked, laughed and kicked the 2011 Food Factor season into gear. We opened that box, unrolled the mat and assembled this year's course in record time.

Now we are ready to pick up right were this smart and talented left off last season.


- Coach Daddio

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