Crushing Techno Tigers Fight Multiple Sclerosis!

Today I was so proud of the Crushing Techno Tigers team!

They spent their time, energy, and wonderful Saturday to "do a good thing".  Today the team, along with many parents, participated in the Walk MS event at Troy High School in Troy Michigan.  One of the kids told me today they felt 'Happy to walk and help people that struggle to do things I can do every day like ride my bike or button my shirt".

At the WalkMS in Troy

The MS walk in Troy was a blast. Although we had fun and got to talk with our friends, we raised a lot of of money for the multiple scleroses society, we also helped many people that have MS. We even brought our parents along to raise even more money, and to motivate us to keep walking.

By M'Ash' Potato

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

Watch the World Festival in St Louis LIVE!

Are you interested in watching the matches for FLL, FTC and FRC? Well, you can :) All of the matches will be broadcast LIVE via webcast on the NASA Science channel.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/

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!!

Happy Holidays!!

Happy Holidays everyone from the Crushing Techno Tigers!

Please note that we have a very important tiger missing from this photo.
We are missing Techno Brick!

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

New YouTube video check us out

Today we posted a new video to our YouTube channel.

The video shows how the Clot-Bot can get 370 points out of 400!!

Click here to take a look........

By M"Ash" Potato

370 in 2 minutes and 24 seconds

Guess what? The Crushing Techno Tigers got 370 in about 2 minutes and 24 seconds out the 2 and 1/2 minutes we had on the robot board at the C.T.T HQ!

by Robotic Robo Rithik

Here is a picture of our robot, named Clot-Bot

POINTS!!!

Robot progress!

As of now we can achieve 330 points!!!!!! However, we have not run them all together yet to see how we are on time.

M"Ash" Potato

Yet another new country

We have a new country that has visited our blog.Its..... Bulgaria!

30 COUNTRIES!!!

That's right, we have now been visited by 30 different countries from around the world!!

The latest countries to be added are:
- Egypt
- Saudi Arabia
- South Korea
- Argentina
- Hungary
- Israel


Congrats to the Tigers for an amazing season and for continuing to work! They have told me that we have more to accomplish :)

Results of the Regional Tournament

We had a lot of fun in our regional tournament and placed pretty high with our robot score. We had some long waits for interviews and it was a really crazy day. In the end the team did amazingly well under some challenging conditions.

I am so amazed at all the tremendously wonderful comments this team has received in our rookie year. The potential of this team will be something to watch!!!

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

Hard work and preparations for the regional tournament

We are working really hard this week and based on the comments received in Flint we have arranged an additional interview with a researcher that studies biomedical physics and nanotechnology. This will help us better understand our innovative idea and let us know if it is really possible.

Our robot runs are getting pretty consistent now too!