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2010 Kickoff Jan 9th, Huntington University

Published by Chris on January 9, 2010 in Information. 0 Comments

img_1179bTomorrow marks the start of our SIXTH season as Huntington County 4-H Robotics. Another exciting year none the least. We’ve had some wonderful sponsorships again this year from BAE Systems, NASA, Henline Towing, United Technologies, Indiana Workforce Development, National 4-H Council, United REMC Operation Round Up, PHD, Inc. and Huntington University. Thank you sponsors for making this possible to grow our students in our own community.

Kickoff will be held at Huntington University Science Building.
The agenda can be downloaded here if you can join us.
http://huntingtonrobotics.org/downloads/

Or you can watch it LIVE from home or your computer.

Saturday morning 10:00-noon EDT.

Watch it live on NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
or via webcast on http://robotics.nasa.gov/

Inspiration from a LEGO Student

Published by Chris on January 5, 2010 in Information. 0 Comments

This came into my inbox today, an article written by a LEGO student, Henry Easley.

http://huntingtonfreepress.com/living/people/lego-robotics-competition-held-2.html

I was inspired for two reasons:

1. Kudos to Henry for taking the time to write up a nice article about his experience.
2. That our Huntington Community has some great people over at Huntington Free Press.com to allow students to express themselves. Take special note to the “editors note”.

Thanks to both Henry and Rick from Huntington Free Press

Chris Elston

Thunderbirds FLL bring home 2nd Place for Championship Teamwork!

Published by Chris on December 12, 2009 in Information. 0 Comments

Quick post….

We had a great time today, though we don’t have the final “rankings” we did win 2nd place for Teamwork! We also ran three rounds with the robot.

Round #1, ranked 29th

Round #2, ranked 13th

Round #3, ranked 13th

All the above rounds where out of 48 teams total. Our highest match was round #3 at 285 points out of 400 possible. More to come later…

Thunderbirds 2nd Place Teamwork

Thunderbirds FLL LEGO League SmartMove AutoConveyor Project

Published by Chris on November 13, 2009 in Information. 0 Comments

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Welcome Team #3669 LEGO League!

Published by Chris on September 12, 2009 in Information. 0 Comments

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Well what a FUN day! We kicked off our LEGO season today. First we introduced ourselves and then we did a Spaghetti and Marshmallows team building activity. (see pictures). Later on in the morning, after we reviewed mission videos, and broke up into three smaller teams. The students called themselves: Star Wars, PSI, and Super Gold teams. We ranked the missions from hardest to easiest then each team took the top three hardest ones and so on until all the missions where broken up among the three smaller groups. We started assembling the field together as another team activity and Monday night we will start rotating through our groups of build table, project table, and field. All and all the team did an awesome job today and it was allot of fun! See you guys Monday night for more fun finishing up the field and building our robot! Go Team #3669!!!