QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Nothing is impossible with inspiration on your side," - FIRST® Robotics Competition Team Scream, who plan to go #allin this year
WHAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
Global Innovation updates
Past Global Innovation contenders from the FLL WORLD CLASSSM have recently weighed in with updates.
Read all about semi-finalists Heschel RoboHawks and what "Tikkun Olam" means to them.
Then catch up with winning team Team Storm, who have been busy learning the lessons of user testing.
Expertise, please
FIRST® is accepting presentation proposals for the 13th annual FIRST Championship Conferences for presentations on topics of interest to all four FIRST program teams, Coaches, Mentors, Students, and prospective leaders. Interested? Get the scoop here and apply before March 4th.
RES-Q me
If you are aging out of FIRST® LEGO® League and/or in 7th grade and looking for a new challenge, think about starting a FIRST® Tech Challenge team so you don't have to give up robots or teamwork! Apply today for a free Robotics Kit to help you get started.
CONTEST CORNER
Oh say can you sing?
The 2016 FIRST Championship is looking for a FIRST team member to perform the U.S. national anthem live and in person at this year's FIRST Championship Welcome Ceremony in St. Louis, Missouri! Got some serious pipes on your team? Check out the details and then just do re mi it.
Sort shorts
Is your local competition over? Looking for a new challenge? Show us how YOUR team solved the sorter mission and unscramble a secret message for a chance to win an EV3 class set and a FIRST goodie bag.
Get out the vote
FedEx, a Strategic Partner and proud Sponsor of FIRST, has submitted a video about FIRST into the Boston College Film Festival at the Corporate Citizenship Conference. Please watch the video and cast your vote here. (FedEx is in the large company category). Voting is open through Feb. 15.
STEM in the NEWS
In news befitting the coming ANIMAL ALLIESSM season, Italian scientists have been modeling robots after our TRASH TREKSM friend, the octopus. Find out why.
CELEBRATION and SHOUT-OUTS
Are you learning new skills to bring to your Robot Game?
Have the presentation skills you picked up in your Project work carried over in other areas of your life?
Are you still applying one of our favorite Core Values -- We have fun -- to your team meetings?
Pat yourself on the back. These are no small accomplishments in the grand scheme of things.
Special shout-out
To the Blue Lightning LEGOBots of Kentucky, who turned their attention to a very popular part of our program this season. Coach Andrew writes:
Our team decided on old LEGO as our piece of trash, so we created a collection campaign to collect as many old LEGO as we could. We created a new LEGO set called "BLLB VMA Imagination Mystery" that is a random assortment of about a pound of LEGO (with 1 mini figure & a set of 4 wheels) that is packaged into a clear plastic container (similar to a peanut butter jar) with a label on it, so that the kids from DCCH Center for Children and Families ( a children's home in the area for kids who are orphans or in foster care) could each have a container to put the LEGO in when they weren't playing with them. We already dropped off 57 of these containers to DCCH, with the help of 51 other Villa students we created a total of about 150 containers. Our goal was to collect enough LEGO to make one container for all 40 kids living there. Since we still had more LEGO, we made more of the containers for other kids that DCCH helps, but who don't live there. We are doing an out-of-uniform day to raise money for the kids at DCCH to receive an EV3 robot. We plan on teaching the kids how to use the robot when we drop it off with an extra field set-up.
Not going to lie... Sharing LEGO love gave us major warm fuzzies.
What is YOUR team up to? Be proud to make it loud and tell us all about what you've been doing with a tweet to @firstlegoleague. Or, shoot us an email at fllt...@firstinspires.org. Then watch this space. Next time, we may be shouting out to YOU!
Thank you, thank you very much
Our FIRST LEGO League Global Sponsors help us bring our program to students around the globe. Hands in the air for 3M, NI, Rockwell Automation, and, of course, LEGO®.
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