FIRST Lego League
FIRST Lego League
This Year's Challenge
2004 No Limits
Many people have difficulty moving or walking, or trouble reading a distant sign or climbing stairs. In NO LIMITS, FLL teams will find ways to help people with different levels of physical ability. This year students will have to design and program a robot that can do such everyday activities as picking up a CD, retrieving a pair of glasses, feeding the pets, and negotiating a set of stairs.
For more information on the challenge visit the FLL 2004 No Limits web site.
What We're Doing
November 3, 2003
5th Grade
Our class is working on the FIRST Lego League. Our name is CrazyBots2004. Some of our robots are finished. We have to program the robots to do the certain things that we need them to do for the competition. Most people know how to program the robot, but some do not know how yet.
-- By Diamond U., Amanda M. and Maria C.
The 5th Grade Robot (so far)
6th Grade
Our 6th grade class is building robots for the FIRST Lego League competitions. We are putting the robots on the challenge board to see if they can complete the tasks they are supposed to do. The robots have to push the chairs in, go up stairs, open a gate and try not to run over the pets when the robots feed them. Our class is divided into six groups. Each group has a programmer, builders, web masters, and graphic designers. Everyone is working on the challenge. For the tournament competition our class is divided in half. One group will be the tournament team and the other will be the support team. We are learning to cooperate, work as a team, and listen to each other. Those are also included in the scoring at the competition. --By Katie W. and Shaunte C.
The 6th Grade robot on November 4, 2004
2004 Tournament Results
On December 10 & 11, 2004 the Prince of Peace teams went to the Regional FLL tournament at iSpace (located at Scarlet Oak) and competed against 45 other teams. Teams were graded in 4 major areas: Teamwork, Technical Presentation, Research Presentation, and performance on the playing field. Both Teams did a wonderful job, with the 5th grade CrazyBots scoring very well on the Teamwork portion of the judging, and 6th grade RoboPanthers coming in 16th with a table score of 158. While this year we did not take home any awards, we had a great time. Students were able to actually see an iBot wheel chair, and several of the students were participants in the wheel chair football exhibition. Prince of Peace will probably be best remembered for the RoboPanthers choice to distribute pudding cups to the entire cafeteria as their treat to the other teams. We already know that next years challenge will be about underwater exploration, and are already talking about just what kind of robot we will need to design for those tasks.