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DE FLL Champs invited to Legoland Invitational

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FIRST LEGO League Team 6361, the Technobots, were named state champions on Saturday, February 20, at the DE FLL Championship event held at DSU in Dover. The team has an opportunity to advance to the LEGOLAND Invitational in California. More than 30 teams from DE, PA, and NJ competed for the title– in timed runs on a challenge-filled field and in three major judged categories:

  • Robot design, including strategy and programming;
  • Project solution, identifying, researching and addressing a real-world problem related to waste and waste management, and sharing it with the community;
  • Core values, that include teamwork and gracious professionalism.

Scenes from the full-day event.

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State Championship events set for this month

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Scenes from two recent FLL qualifying events–

Dover FLL January 30, 2016
Dover FLL January 30, 2016
Salem Community College, FLL Qualifier, January 2016
Salem Community College, FLL Qualifier, January 2016
Salem Community College, FLL Qualifier, January 2016
Salem Community College, FLL Qualifier, January 2016
Dover FLL January 30, 2016
Salem Community College, FLL Qualifier, January 2016
Salem Community College, FLL Qualifier, January 2016
Salem Community College, FLL Qualifier, January 2016

First State Robotics 2015/16 qualification events are wrapping up for FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) and FLL (FIRST LEGO League), so top teams will advance to compete for the regional championship and — for FTC teams— a chance to represent Delaware at the East coast FIRST Super-regional in Scranton, PA this March and possibly move on to the FTC World Championship this April in St. Louis, MO.

You are invited to come see what it’s all about…FSR events are free and open to the public.

Diamond State FIRST Tech Challenge Championship

  • February 9, 2016
  • Doors open to teams 7 am- 6 pm
  • Opening ceremony 10:45 am
  • Memorial Hall Gym, Delaware State University, Dover, DE

More info at www.delawareftc.org

2015/2016 First State FLL State Championship Tournament

  • February 20, 2016
  • Event Start Time: 8:00am
  • M L King Student Center, Delaware State University, Dover, DE

More info at http://www.firststatefll.org

MOE 365 jumps in to meet new challenge

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MOE FRC stategy planning

Here are a few scenes from the FRC team MOE365 meeting last Saturday, January 9 at DuPont’s Chestnut Run work site. Like others around the world, they gathered to view kickoff video from FIRST world headquarters, then jumped in to begin brainstorming potential strategies and robot designs.

  • (Left) MOE students watching a broadcast of the FIRST kickoff, showing Dean Kamen talking with students in Manchester, NH.
  • (Right) MOE students acting out the roles of robots in a simulated match to help the team understand how the game works.

 

The 2016 challenge has a medieval theme and name: FIRST Stronghold, and the kickoff video spoofed genre films and television shows– complete with catapulted “animals” and tower-climbing robots. Learn more about FRC here or watch the same animation video below.