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!

"Dhruv On The Rules"

This is one of the team's most notable parts of our meetings known by the team as: "Dhruv On The Rules"

During this part of our meetings we get caught up-to-date on all of the rule updates and clarifications as they are posted on the web. Dhruv has done an excellent job this season of keeping us informed of any and all updates!

Fun, focused and busy

The past week has been fun and busy. We have been programming our robot to do our missions and we have also been working on our project. We had our group interview and I interviewed someone myself. It was fun talking to someone about our project.

By Lizard

CRUNCH TIME - Preparation for tournaments begins

Things are really coming together!

--ROBOT--
Our programming and robot missions are getting closer with every meeting. We now have a few things fully accomplished and working on more! It seems that we are making great progress and overcoming significant obstacles at each meeting.

--PROJECT--
Having done some interviews and a lot of research is really paying off. We are now working on our project presentation that we will have to give at the tournament. The kids are really having a blast with this portion. This group of kids is really great! It is exciting to see the kids get just as excited about working on the research project as they are about working on the robot!

We have a logo!

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Do you know what this is? Is it a team mascot?

If you think you know what this is, sign our guest book and submit your guess!

Robot Strategy & Project Topic

Tonight we had an wonderful meeting!

Together we:

• Worked with our robot
• Wrote a few programs that will benefit the whole team for the rest of the season
• Narrowed in on our robot strategy for the first combined point mission
• With our research topic chosen (Cardiovascular System) have ALSO identified our 'problem' that we will be studying

These kids continue to impress!!

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.

Trip to FLL Rookie Camp

First we did a continuous line drawing team building exercise. We drew a robot.

Discussed the different types of robots and what they do.

• There are three parts to a robot: Body, programming, purpose
• We built the body of a robot.
• We played Follow the line blindfolded to teach us pseudocoding.
• Then they taught us programming.with our robots that we built.
• They explained to us about all the differnt sensors and how they work.
• They taught us how to program different blocks.

They gave us challenges while we programmed:

• go forward, turn left beep once, backup
• go forward until robot hits wall, back up, turn left, beep
• follow a line

There was a guest speaker Walt H, he reviewed the challenge and what was important.

Completed two robot designs!

Well, the team has been hard at work trying to complete their two robot designs that each provide different, good, options. Tonight the team completed both :)

The kids refused to go home until they were done.

Tonight was also fun on another note. We had two team members that programmed for the first time and completed the task, in a short period of time. They did a wonderful job, communicated extremely well with one another and followed an engineering 'process' in completing the program.

I love the attitude of this team!

Work, work, work!

Tonight the team shared their research with one another and from this they narrowed our topics down to a few. At the next full meeting the team will choose one topic to study for the remainder of the season.

The rest of the meeting was spent working on our two competing robot designs. Making the robot frames stronger, adding critical elements and getting them ready to share with the whole team.

A third group worked on programming and trying to solve one of the missions.

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?