Food Factor FLL Challenge release Sept 2, 2011
Welcome to the Wasatch Jr HS Robotics Club and FLL team site. FLL (First Lego
League) is an international competition using Lego Mindstorms robots to
complete missions that reflect the year's research challenge. This year's
theme is "Food Factor". Teams are raising money to pay for team
registration. There are currently 3 teams of Wasatch students registered and
hoping to qualify and make it to the big show at the University of Utah
in January 2012.
We will be trying out a new format to introduce new students to FLL this
coming year because of the incredible interest in robotics. Listen and stay tuned.
FLL
Check out the NinjaOwls' website, a group of Wasatch JHS students who
qualified for the FLL state tournament at the University of Utah Saturday, Jan
28, 2012. Go NinjaOwls!
The NinjaOwls Website
This is a great link to get quick overview of the First Lego League(FLL) from
the University of Utah. This is an international program that has been around
for 20 years. The "U" brought an official regional FLL tournament to Utah
last year(2010) and there are over 100 teams now competing to qualify for a
spot in the regional tournament at the "U" at the end of January, 2012. Check
it out!
Welcome to FLL in Utah at the University of Utah
This site provides general info about FLL
FLL has 2 major components: the 'Project' and
Robot game('missions'). But, the heart of FLL is about the core values and
"gracious professionalism". See the link below for this year's Challenge!
Fisrt Lego League(FLL)- What is it??
Do you like to eat safe food? Check out this year's challenge. All of the
information for the challenge, missions, project for this year will be
available on the web once
released on September 2, 2011. You will be able to link to the site from here.
Food Factor Challenge for FLL 2011-2012 to be released Sept 2!
Great site to teach engineering, programming of NXT robots-that's Mindstorms
used in FLL competitions. Great place to learn about working on projects,
creativity, programming ideas, the math behind programming!!
Fire Project of the Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Academy
Tutorials for Middle School Robotics includes NXT. The tutorial can be
downloaded from this site.
http://inside.catlin.edu/site/msrobotics/html/downloads.html
Cool animation of last year's Body Forward missions. The characters are great!
Good look at missions and how points are earned in the robot game.
Body Forward video: how to get points for different missions
Don't know if they are using the same software to run this robot...
Absolutely Awesome look at robot design and accomplishing all tasks for Body Forward!
Other links
There are lots of links available on YouTube that illustrate past competitions
and even some info about this year. You can get a quick idea about what
MindStorm robots can do. Keep checking and let us know if you find something
that we should know about.