We have a NEW YouTube Video

The team has worked hard all season and now we have a new YouTube video!

Watch it, you'll like it.

CLICK THIS LINK: http://www.youtube.com/user/CrushingTechnoTigers

Good luck at Thunder Quest!!!

Wishing good luck to our friends the Bearded Dragons, Jalapeño Hippies & Thunder Stalions at their regional tournament today!!


From the entire Crushing Techno Tiger team

New friends !

Met some cool new friends this weekend @ the Andover Practice Tourney.

Team 8236 - The Jalepenio Hippies

I wonder if they are related to the Robo Hippies?????

Congrats again to the Bearded Dragons. Fabulous job, really cool attachments and great robot score!

Interesting distraction during our meeting :)

Tonight we had an interesting distraction during our team meeting.  This distraction was particularly interesting since our research this season started with venison :)

PRACTICE TOURNAMENT IN FLINT

Boy, last Saturday sure was fun! I especially liked the dancing. The whole team had gotten up very early and we very tired at the end of that fun day. I can't wait for the regional tournament!!!

Andover high school practice tournament

I had a great time at the Andover high school practice tournament yesterday. I was glad to see all of the teams having a great time. I especially enjoyed seeing the Bearded Dragons doing great robot runs as a rookie team. I even forgot they were a rookie team! I am so glad my teammate Northbound and I could make it. Because we had a blast with everyone. Good luck at regional.

-M'Ash' Potato

this years teamwork challenges

This years teamwork challenges have been very fun.

we all work together, we do different challenges, he times us. we've done things without talking like ordering ourselves from our birthdays, getting ourselves out of a knot, coach says, building specific things with legos and watching parents do them too.

Go Dragons!

We're @ Andover to root on our friends the Bearded Dragons from Commerce in their practice tourney. Go Dragons!

robot, robot, robot....

Our one team member 'not' at 5th grade camp this week made some HUGE progress last night on the robot!  Techno-Brick Rocked!

Great work!

The numbers are in! Crushing Techno Tigers Donate to MS Society

Well, the final numbers are in and the Crushing Techno Tigers are responsible for raising $285 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.  The team walked in the Walk MS event earlier this year in Troy MI.

The team showed up on a cool windy morning and walked the route a nice size crowd!  We all wore our CTT shirts and got a nice response as we did our team "HOO-HAH" cheer :)

This is a great group of kids and giving back to in this way shows their heart & spirit.

Congratulations team!


P.S. It should be noted that we had a few 'Hippies'
join us too!  ;)

Robots, projects & teamwork!

I am really proud of these amazing kids. Great work last night & more showed up tonight @ CTT HQ to continue the effort. Our season is starting to really progress in all areas.

In what I consider to be the most challenging robot course to date we are on the cusp of pulling in a good amount of points. What a productive two nights!


Great kids, amazing team, impressive results.

- Coach Daddio

Tournament prep!

So much to do and so little time to do it!

Today a few of the CTT members came over to play LEGO's with me :)

Made some progress on the robot and some things are starting to come together.  However there a long way to go before tournament day.

Looking forward to tomorrow's meeting :)

More Friends :)

Want to give a big shout out to our new FLL friends.

• BRICKSofBedford (Nova Scotia, Canada) - Team 6744

Good luck this season!

Signed...   The entire Crushing Techno Tigers team!

Teamwork Challenges !!!

To get ready for the upcoming tournament season we are engaging in various 'teamwork' activities.  It has been a while since we had one and at this meeting the team quickly demonstrated to me why we had such a great first season.  To coin a known FLL phrase...   "We are a TEAM" :)


While there is certainly things we can and should improve upon, the kids did a wonderful job handling the 'monkey wrenches' i threw at them.

I am really lucky to be working with these kids!

THEY are teaching ME a lot!

Project Progress

Well, all the research is starting to make a difference.

We have a topic, researched it a lot, have a possible innovative solution and an interview set up to discuss it :)

The kids are feeling more confident as we move along :)