St. Louis World Festival: Day 2
At 8am, we went to America’s Center (where the FLL and FRC tournaments are held) to meet and eat breakfast with the FedEx team that organized our stay. They are …
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St. Louis World Festival: Day 1
We left for St. Louis at around 2:20pm after having some fun in the airport. We landed an hour and a half later, unprepared for what was about to happen. …
Anoka-Hennepin LEGO Robotics Challenge
Today, Rose and Nancy went to a mini FLL tournament to volunteer. This mini FLL tournament was called the Anoka-Hennepin Lego Robotics Challenge and at this tournament teams would compete …
FLL Q&A Twitter chat!
On March 17th, we were invited by FIRST to join a Twitter chat for FLL teams, which took place on April 15th. The theme was “Winding down and gearing up …
Pancake breakfast at Magenic
Magenic, a software development company, has been very supportive of us since our days in FLL. So, to raise funds for the 2015-2016 season, we hosted a pancake breakfast at their …
WE WON THE FEDEX CONTEST!
As you may know from our past Facebook and YouTube entries, we participated in the Fedex Innovation Challenge. There were four entries that we had to enter to be eligible …
FedEx Innovation Challenges
Each month, FedEx posts a series of challenges for FIRST robotics teams to complete. This may be things like take a themed photo, make a certain video, or solve a …
Volunteering at the Turtle Lake Carnival
We arrived at Turtle Lake Elementary school at 11 AM on March 7th. A couple of our team members had gone to school there, so we were excited to volunteer …
Volunteering at the FLL state tournament
We’ve never had the chance to volunteer at the Lego League state tournament because we’ve always been competing instead. State is almost five times bigger with a excitement level to match. …