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!

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!!!

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.

progress

The Crushing Techno Tigers are making progress. I am having so much fun getting ready for the tournament. We have a lot to do but time is running out.

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:)

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!

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 :)

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 :)

"i.am FIRST - Science is Rock and Roll" to air August 14 on ABC

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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

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!

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!