Fondy Lego Robotics

Coaches:

-->From the FLL(R) Engineering Department

Game Design Division, 1st floor, (okay - it's Scott's desk)... As of last week, the SENIOR SOLUTIONS(SM) Robot Game is finalized and the 2013 design is in full swing!

-->Team Size & Event Participation

Friendly reminders…

ALL TEAMS - Teams may include up to ten (10) children. This means that only ten (10) children may work on the robot or Project, and only those same ten (10) childre...

Coaches:

-->From the FLL(R) Engineering Department

Game Design Division, 1st floor, (okay - it's Scott's desk)... As of last week, the SENIOR SOLUTIONS(SM) Robot Game is finalized and the 2013 design is in full swing!

-->Team Size & Event Participation

Friendly reminders…

ALL TEAMS - Teams may include up to ten (10) children. This means that only ten (10) children may work on the robot or Project, and only those same ten (10) childre...

Coaches:

-->TeamUp: Improved Search!

Trying to start a new FLL(R)/Jr.FLL(R) team? Or looking for more team members? Try FIRST(R) TeamUp! https://my.usfirst.org/FIRSTPortal/login/fc_login.aspx?s=fc FLL just has launched an enhanced and improved FIRST TeamUp, our community-driven system that allows parents, coaches, and mentors to connect with one another to form teams. Already a TeamUp user? Simply accept...

Coaches: -->FLL(R) Global Innovation Award – 2 Winners!In a surprise decision, the FLL Global Innovation Award judges named two teams as first place winners for their food safety inventions during an awards ceremony at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on June 19th. The winners were each awarded up to $250,000 in services and support from the award's Go-To-Market Sponsor, Edison Nation, to help bring their ideas to market. Both teams will also be featured on the Emmy award-winning...

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--> Which FLL(R) Kid Inventors Will Win the Chance to Bring their Food Factor(R) Project Ideas to Market?

Join the FIRST(R) community as we celebrate the second annual FLL Global Innovation Award ceremony on Tuesday, June 19th at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Our Go-to-Market sponsor, Edison Nation, will offer the winning team the incredible opportunity to work with product development and marketing experts to transform their invention into a product ...

--> To Our Amazing FIRST(R) LEGO(R) League Community As 2011 comes to a close, FLL(R) Headquarters reflects on another record-breaking season. In 2011 we saw our community celebrate successes and learn from failures. Robots ran, projects were impactful and, above all, Gracious Professionalism(TM) was abundant. There were devastating and heartbreaking personal losses of which so many of our community around the world reached out to help where we could, and also momentous and joyous occasion...

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-->Looking for World Festival Volunteers…FLL(R) is on the lookout for volunteers for the FLL World Festival, April 25 – 28, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Register online: http://firstlegoleague.org/worldfestival. Don’t forget, the World Festival is part of the overall FIRST Championship.

--> January 19th, 2012…Have you written it down? Excellent, because….(drumroll please) Jan 19th is when we officially launch the FLL Global Innovat...

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-->New VideosFLL has some great new celebrity chef videos! Chef Duff Goldman (Food Network’s Ace of Cakes, Charm City Cakes) and Chef Wilo Benet (Pikayo Restaurant, Puerto Rico) have food safety tips to share with teams.Chef Duff Goldman - http://bit.ly/v4yYbEChef Wilo Benet - http://bit.ly/rrNxGlAnd, if you haven’t seen it already, be sure to check out the video of our own Scott Evans, FLL Engineer and Robot Game designer, reviewing this years’ Food Facto...

Coaches:

-->Team Size Reminder - IMPORTANT

FLL strives to keep all aspects of the program fair and equitable. It is extremely important to remember that the maximum FLL team size is ten (10) student members. These ten (10) members are the only individuals that can work on the robot and the Project. These same ten (10) members are also the only individuals that can compete and present the Project at an event.

We know that it is hard to keep the team to ten (...

Coaches:

FLL wishes all teams celebrating Thanksgiving a very happy and safe (food handling and otherwise!) holiday.

-->Thinking caps on – 2012 Themes Announced

FLL Senior Solutions teaser and logo - http://firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2012seniorsolutions

Jr.FLL Super Seniors teaser and logo - http://juniorfirstlegoleague.org/2012-super-seniors-challenge.html

-->Lights On for FLL!

Second generation e-watt saver bulbs ...