These are a few snapshots of 2011 Northside Xtreme Team FLL competition. They didn't go on to State, but were on the wire to go. They placed 5th on the robot competition and did very well in all other sections and interviews. For being a first time team that is amazing!
For those who don't already know, this is an intense competition for 9 - 14 year olds. The challenge was only announced 8 weeks ago. Our team had several changes out of their control and ended up starting from almost scratch just 2 weeks ago. They had a large research project, a timed, judged skit to create and perform, robot to design, build and program to perform specific timed, judged tasks. Each of these had timed interviews by a panel of judges along with 2 other judging sessions on the bot design and "Core Values". The competition day itself lasts all day. Their first panel of judges interview was at 9 a.m. an their last robot run was after 3 p.m. awards started around 4:30.
Imagine going for a job interview on your ideal job that you really want, having to write a skit to perform, present your best research project; design and build a robot to do a specific job at that company and even with all that, you still have to prove how well you can do the job through 4, panel style interviews too!
These 5 kids were great. The adrenalin was running high all day. They had a great time and are already planning next year. The challenge for 2012 is going to be something related to senior citizens.
2013 Meetings are Wednesdays from 2-4pm Hopefully, this will help for those coming out for Lego Club at the library. We will have our first
meeting on 8/15, and meet weekly through competition in November. I hope you can join us. For more information please contact Dawn Fisher at [email protected].
For this season there will be $100 registration fee, per child, due by September. This will be used for ordering the kit, batteries, supplies etc. We will try to keep all costs down and will look into fund raising. Please note there will be additional expense above the initial $100. I think last year was about $160 per person.
We are working on fund raising to assist with the expenses but cannot determine how much we will be able to contribute as yet.
Team Members
We need two more students to join the team, possibly three.
Coaching
If you are interested please contact Dawn as there is a need for team members and coaches for the 2013 year.