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 [...]
Update #1: Realizing this is pretty short notice, I’m going to open a session just for kids ages 6 to 8 in Riverview. This will be a three hour camp running from June 27th to July 1st. Pricing is the same as the other camps. I’ve update the Camp Page with the registration details. I [...]
I approved the final shirt design yesterday for all of the camp shirts. The screen printer will be starting on them Monday so that I’ll have them for the first week of camps. Tell me what you think!
This being our first year hosting a summer camp program, I have to say the approach to the start of summer was very different from what I expected. Finding locations, setting up activities, constructing camp materials, advertising, organizing the camp shirts, finding camp counselors and “other related activities” proved to each have their own unique [...]
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