Mock Judging the Motorbits
A fellow FTC team, the Motorbolts, have been mentoring a second-year FLL team called the Motorbits since last year. This year, after hearing about their team, we offered to visit …
Mock Judging the Screaming LEGO People
The Screaming LEGO People, a third-year FLL team in our neighborhood, asked us to visit their meeting for a mock judging session a week before their first competition of the …
Mock Judging the Dots
Since the beginning of this year’s FLL season, we have been mentoring our coach’s second-year team The Dots. The week before their first qualifying competition, we had an hour long …
Mock Judging the Coding Queens
A couple weeks before our first qualifier, we were invited to a meeting with the Coding Queens, a rookie FLL team from the elementary school we attended. During the meeting, …
Middle School Robotics Club Meeting
Back in July, we did a presentation for the principal of our old middle school (along with other principals from the district). We were happy to hear a couple months …
RES-Q Eagan Qualifier
We got up bright and early on a Saturday morning to head to Eagan High School for our first tournament of the 2015-2016 RES-Q season. The night before, we had …
Magenic Demo 2015
As we have for the past several years, we woke up early one morning to drive to Magenic and set up this year’s demo. Magenic has been a sponsor since …
October Twitter Chat
A few weeks before the event itself, the official FTC Twitter account tweeted asking for FTC teams who had been in FLL. We sent them an email and were invited …
GOFIRST FTC Workshop presentation
This year, we had the opportunity to give a presentation about branding for the first-ever GOFIRST FTC workshop. The mission of this event was to teach younger teams about some …