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!

Flint Tournament Pictures - From Nov 6th, 2010

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