New Team Video Introduction for the FLL World Invitational Open

Check out our cool video introduction submitted to the FLL World Invitational Open and meet the 4th & 5th graders getting ready to take on the world down in Florida in less than 11 days! - Cool video!!!

Check out FLL in a new & fun way!

Use this new and fun tool to show off FIRST and what it can do.

To explore this cool tool, once you follow the link just click on the dark gray arrow!


Cool FLL Explanation!! <--- Click on me:)

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!

A shot of pure excitement that only FLL can bring!

This is just one of the amazing wild and exciting times that get to be experienced at an FLL tournament.

We love our Crushing Techno Tigers!!!

...Can't wait until the State Tournament in Flint :)

Dhruv on the rules!

Even though it is a new season we are going back to one of our favorite meeting segments...

Yep, you guessed it...  "Dhruv on the rules"

We'd be lost without this segment!

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 :)

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

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

We are learning and having fun!

So far we have been learning about the cardiovascular system and heart, programming on our robot 'spencer' and building our robots. Right now we have 779 views of our blog!!! Crushing Techno Tigers also have chosen our unique Lego names: M"Ash"Potato, Bob-E-Bob, Northbound, Banana Pop, Robotic Robo Rithik, Techno Brick, Creature-man, Lizard and Coach Daddio. We plan to continue researching, learning and working with Legos to complete the challenges and research project.

Study, Practice & Review

Tonight we had a great time doing some internet studying, teamwork practice & review of all things FLL. I am very impressed with this crew of amazing kids!

More Body Forward Research - Biomedical Lab Tour

Today we our team got the opportunity to go on another interview/tour. This was to a biomedical lab where we were exposed to MANY different types of experiments, physical models and technology. We are really ready for the challenge to be released!

Body Forward Research Interview

This week we went on our first research interview. It was a very interesting tour/interview!! We toured a facility that builds prosthetic limbs and got to see and explore the entire process from raw materials all the way through the patients working hard with physical therapy. What a wonderful experience for the kids (and the coach)!

pool party meeting - by Crushing Techno Tiger Daniel

We reviewed the core values.

Talked about strategies with a lego car.

We talked about stories that we thought of.

We did a team work exercises.
we went swimming.