I am so pleased that all three of my FIRST LEGO League teams qualified to move on to the regional qualifier here in Tampa! Not only did they qualify, they’ve all stepped up their game to give their best possible showing at the event! Win or lose, I’m proud of the integrity and dedication they [...]
Linda Chion Kenney from the Brandon Patch interviewed me today at a local FLL tournament. Patch Talk: Bill Shaw on Lego, Kids, Mindstorms, Robotics and MOSI My grammar was really bad but I was between rounds and pretty frazzled. Still, it was a nice piece of press! My teams did really well today. They stepped [...]
We are now just under two weeks away from Florida’s FIRST EVER Jr. FLL Expo at MOSI. Join us on the afternoon of January 8th at MOSI to be part of the Amazing Snack Attack Race! This is where you can see how hard Junior FIRST LEGO League teams worked and what they accomplished with [...]
I have been wondering a lot lately which global issue FIRST would tackle next. With the rapid increase in our elderly population, the challenges faced by seniors as they struggle to make ends meet while living longer than previous generations are unprecedented. From 2012 Jr. FLL Super Seniors Challenge, Can Junior FIRST® LEGO® League teams [...]
I have confirmed a meeting schedule and location for our South Tampa FIRST LEGO League and Junior FIRST LEGO League team meeting! We will have an organizational meeting on Tuesday, September 6th at 6:30 P.M. The meeting will be at 3841 W. Kennedy Blvd. It is on the north side of Kennedy between Dale Mabry [...]
Competition engages students in space exploration by challenging them to simulate Google Lunar X PRIZE missions with LEGO robots PLAYA VISTA, CA (Aug. 31, 2011) – The X PRIZE Foundation and LEGO Group announced today winners of the MoonBots 2.0: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge. The competition challenges teams of students ages 9 [...]
I have confirmed a meeting schedule and location for our North Tampa FIRST LEGO League and Junior FIRST LEGO League team meetings! Our inaugural meeting is this Thursday, August 25th at 6:00 P.M. We will meet at Messiah Lutheran Church located at 14920 Hutchison Road in Tampa. The church is on the left side about [...]
I hope everyone had as much fun as I did this summer! Our robotics summer camp program finished last week and I’m planning a lot of new activities for this school year. As of right now, I have after school programs setup at a couple of locations. I still have Wednesday’s open for one more [...]
During week 3 of the Inanimate Reason Robotics summer camp, a group of campers and counselors took on a four stage LEGO Great Ball Chase contraption. By the end of the week, we had it working (sort of). These videos show some of the work in progress. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be [...]
In our homegrown version of battlebots, I present one of the most popular activities this summer at our Robotics Summer Camps, NXT Battlebots! The rules are simple – the last robot standing and able to move under its own power wins. In the event more than one robot lives, the ref (me) decides which robot [...]
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