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Last weekend the Crushing Techno Tigers volunteered at the MS Bike Event. The bikers ride over 150 miles in two days. Day one starts in Fenton, MI and finishes at the Michigan State University campus. The riders spend the night on campus, get up the next morning and then ride back to Fenton. We volunteered at the finish line in Fenton where the kids and parents set-up the decorations, organized and handled the riders luggage, and handed out metals to the riders as they crossed the finish line.

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Note from the Multiple Sclerosis Society:
Bike MS is for cyclists and all those seeking a personal challenge and a world free of MS. Bike MS is the premier fundraising cycling series in the nation. With a choice of over 100 extraordinary rides nationwide, including four right here in Michigan, the Bike MS experience is the ride of your life.

pool party meeting - by Crushing Techno Tiger Daniel

We reviewed the core values.

Talked about strategies with a lego car.

We talked about stories that we thought of.

We did a team work exercises.
we went swimming.

"The Package" has arrived!!!!

We had an impromptu meeting tonight to see what was in "The Package". It was our course for the 2010 robot challenge. Had a lot of fun watching the team work together to assemble the pieces using the instructions. This was truly a teamwork challenge! Now the course is fully set up and ready to tease us all until September 3rd when the full challenge is released. We can't wait until September 3rd!!!

Thinking about what it will all look like.

Looking at the mat and setting a 'build plan'.

Sorting and building sure seemed like a big teamwork exercise.

Volunteering at the MS Bike charity event

We had a GREAT time volunteering at the MS Bike charity event today. The team and parents volunteered at finish line. We helped set everything up, move and organize the riders luggage and hand out metals to the riders as they crossed the finish line. What a wonderful event - Thank you everyone!

notes from our third meeting - by Crushing Techno Tiger Nathan

First, we did a word search that used words that were about core values. Then, we talked talked about what a core value is. Next, we talked about different Lego pieces. For example one of the pieces was a beam. Next, we talked about robot safety. Part of robot safety is to be careful about not dropping your team's robot. Lastly, we talked about how this year we will be interviewing people. That's what we did at the meeting. We also wrote our first program making the robot move around using the move block.


The coach guides us.

The kids do the work (programming).

Our second meeting - by Crushing Techno Tiger Ashley

What we did in the last Lego meeting.

We started out with a word search. The list of words for the word search were the real names of the Lego bricks. Next we did a teamwork exercise. It was called the human robot!!! We took turns being the programmer and the robot. The programmer had to tell the robot how to get from place to place and how to move around.

After that we got to look at our new robot kit and all the Legos from the kit. We also learned what the Lego brick names were. Lastly we interviewed each other and then got to introduce our partner to the parents.

Our robot kit arrives.

Title says it all. Our season is now moving forward... Body Forward that is.

We are now registered with FIRST and have a team number!

We are registered with FIRST, have a team number & our robot kit should be on it's way soon... The coach is getting excited! :)

Our First Meeting

Summary created by an anonymous Crushing Techno Tiger :)

The beginning of our first meeting was spent introducing and getting to know everyone. We talked about what the season would be like, what we will get to do and how we get to do everything ourselves. One of the important things we did was create a code of conduct.

We got to see the robot and watch it move around. We talked about teamwork and played a few fun teamwork games. Some of the games were with legos and some games weren't. It was a lot of fun.



First team meeting



Kids attack a teamwork challenge



Now the Kids get to see if the parents can do better ;-)

We have a team!

As of today we officially have a team!

We now know that there are enough interested families to form a team. This is going to be a fun season and I can not wait to get things moving. It will be my pleasure to watch how these eight wonderful kids will grow and enjoy the FLL experience.