FLL “Senior Solutions” 2012-13 Unveiled

The 2012-13 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) “Senior Solution” challenge has been revealed on August 28, 2012.  This is a 3-part competition (Robot Game, Project, and Core Value).  For full challnge detail, see http://firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2012seniorsolutions\
NJ FLL teams have approximately 12 weeks to prepare for the regional qualifiers to be held on November 17, 2012.  Let’s Go teams!
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Official “Senior Solution” Robot Game Video (by Scott [...]

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Exit 5 Robotics @ World Invitational Open (May 3 – 6)

Exit 5 Robotics was honored to represent New Jersey in the FLL (FIRST LEGO League) World Invitational Open held in Florida on May 3 – May 6.  With with ages ranging up to 17, the competition involved 65 top teams from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
With this year’s FLL theme being food [...]

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3rd Annual LRC Jr. FIRST LEGO League Expo 2012

Date: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Location:
Livingston Oval south of Livingston Library (357 South Livingston Ave. Livingston, NJ 07039)
Livingston High School cafeteria (if rain)

Parking:
Livingston Municipal Building across Livingston Ave from the Oval., or
St. Philomenas Church to the south of the Oval, or
Livingston High School parking lot near the football stadium and pool (if rain)

Hosted by: Landroids [...]

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Landroids Won FIRST Tech Challenge Highest Honor at the World Championship 2012

Livingston Robotics Club’ founder team, the Landroids #4220 has took home the #1 Inspire Award at the 2012 FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship on April 28, 2012.  The team also won the Finalist Alliance Award and the Franklin Division Winning Alliance Award as the alliance captain.
The Inspire Award is the highest honor at the FIRST [...]

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2012 Jr. FIRST LEGO League Expo – “Snack Attack”, 5/26/2012

The 3rd annual outdoor Livingston Robotics Club Jr. FIRST LEGO League (Jr. FLL) Expo is here! All 2011-12 registered “Snack Attack” Jr. FLL teams are invited to this largest outdoor Jr. FLL Expo in the nation. (Updated May 21, 2012)
Date: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: Livingston Oval, next to Livingston Library.  The [...]

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2013 LRC Jr. FIRST LEGO League Expo – “Super Seniors”, May 25, 2013

Posted by admin on May 21st, 2013
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The 4th annual outdoor Livingston Robotics Club Jr. FIRST LEGO League (Jr. FLL) Expo is here! All 2012-13 registered “Super Seniors” Jr. FLL teams will present their projects and LEGO models including moving parts and robotics programming.

Come and cheer young children ages 6-9 from 7 NJ Counties: Bergen, Camden, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris and Passaic. This event is open to the public. 

Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM

Where: At the Livingston Oval. Our big white tent will be located near the address “1 Civic Center Road, Livingston, NJ” using Google Map. For GPS, you may use “357 South Livingston Avenue, Livingston, NJ” to get you to the intersection of South Livingston Avenue and Civic Center Road.

Parking: The entire area of Livingston Oval (Civic Center Road and Robert H Harp Drive) will be closed to vehicular traffics on that day. Park your car at the rear parking lot of the Livingston Municipal Building (357 South Livingston Avenue) then walk to our tent location. Please use caution when crossing the South Livingston Avenue as it is a busy roadway. In case the parking lot is full, please use the parking lot behind the St. Philomenas Church to the south of the oval.

The Jr. FLL Expo will include additional free enrichment and outdoor activities:

  • An exhibition from Saint Barnabas Medical Center on the “50 Years of Medical Technology” to look back on how the lives of our seniors have changed in the medical cares.
  • A 45-minute interactive science show related to medicines by “Mad Science” (from 12:30 PM to 1:15 PM)
  • Jr. FLL teams (ages 6-9) presenting their “Super Seniors” projects and LEGO models that incorporate motors and computer programming.
  • “Livingston’s Stuff The Bus” food drive for Livingston’s C.H.O.W. (Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse) of the St. Philomena Church (Each person brings a can if you can!)
  • FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech Challenge robot demonstration by team Landroids, Exit 5 Robotics, Alpha Force and PowerFlow
  • Enjoy many family friendly activities including pony rides, a petting zoo, craft tents, face painters, a giant blow-up obstacle course and slides, fire trucks, adopt-a-pet, and a chalk walk, Go Karts, food and music among others.

Learn about why the Livingston Robotics Club Jr. FLL Expos are so special! http://www.livingstonrobotics.org/expo/

Photos from LRC’s past Jr. FLL Expos can be found here: 2010 Smart Move;  2011 Body Forward; 2012 Snack Attack.

Attending teams (19 teams):

Team# Team Name Town
69 RoboRocker Wayne
79 NJ Robots Wayne
242 The Innovators Harmilton
458 AODs West Orange
623 Chatham Lego Heroes Chatham
1189 Bergen Bot Garfield
1440 DragoBots Old Bridge
1775 Minds on Lego Voorhees
1851 Roboblast Plainsboro
2221 Robotic Ninjas Montclair
2273 Lego Super Starz Parsippany
2661 Lego Friends Parsippany
2941 Legoistas West Orange
3145 The Electrons Livingston
3167 Engineers Livingston
3175 Plainsboro Gators Plainsboro
3395 Super Flaming Bot Builders Livingston
3396 Blue Robot Livingston
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Robotic Ninjas in the Final Stretch

Posted by roboticninjas on April 27th, 2013

Robotic Ninjas is in its final model building stretch and having  lot of fun!photo

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LRC 2013-14 Registration is Opened

Posted by LRC on March 31st, 2013

Individual member application and team registration for the 2013-14 season is now opened. We are accepting individual member application till June 15, 2013 for students seeking a team or would like to form a new team.  Please refer to the “Apply” page for more details. Placement to an existing LRC team is not guaranteed.

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Robotic Ninjas Has Fun With Research

Posted by roboticninjas on March 26th, 2013

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This is our first Junior First Lego League project.  We learned that our challenge was to make a model and do research on a change that has happened from our grandparents time till now.  We bugged our grandparents with a lot of questions and came up with lots of research ideas. We also had a huge box of Legos and at first didn’t really know what to do so we kept playing and built different machines. We’re building our model to show a supermarket from the past and one from now.  We have so many ideas, it’s hard to fit everything into the model.  We think we may make the model in two levels!  Is that allowed even????

Our Super Seniors  project is about how supermarkets and the technology they use have changed since our grandparents time!

We had some fun with our research when we got a tour of our local Shoprite.  We scanned the UPC codes on food items and the price of the item popped up on the computer screen.  It was so much fun!  We learned so much about how technology works in supermarkets and can’t wait to share the info. in our Show Me Poster.

Her are some pictures of our tour………….

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Upcoming Jr. FIRST LEGO League Expos for 2013

Posted by admin on March 12th, 2013

Winter and Spring are the high season for Junior FLL activities. Children ages 6-9 are getting their teams ready to to participate in one of the Expos in New Jersey. The events are open to the public. Subscribe to our blog (upper right corner) to get updates on these events.

Upcoming Jr.FLL Expos:

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Two Time NJ State Champion’s Award Winners

Posted by exit5robotics on February 7th, 2013

For the second time  in a row, the Exit 5 Robotics Team capped a successful calendar year in December with a Champions Award at the NJ State FLL Finals.  To get to this point, they finished ahead of 21 other teams at their November 2012 Hillsborough Regional Qualifying Tournament, winning 1st Place Champions Award as well as a 2nd place robotics performance.   The next stop was the December 2012 NJ State Finals with a field of 48 teams.  Exit 5 Robotics came in with the 2nd Place Champions Award and  just a nanometer out the 1st place spot overall.

Although it’s a tough feat to repeat, this essentially replicates their success at the same point 12 months ago.  In 2011, the team won a regional Champions Award at Liberty Science Center.  At subsequent NJ State Finals, they won the 2nd Place Champions Award.  They were one of 64 top teams out of over 20,000 worldwide, to qualify and compete in the 2012 World Invitational Open in Florida.

The annual FLL competition involves three areas of competition: core values, a research project, and robotics.  This year’s competition them inolves improving the lives of our senior population.  To prepare for the next competition, the team is hard at work researching solutions to keep our senior partners engaged, connected, and independent.  Also during this period the team is staying active in their core values efforts.  And… of course the team is inventively investigating improvements to their robot.

 

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A New Kid (Kit) in Town – LEGO Mindstorms EV3

Posted by LRC on January 15th, 2013

LEGO has just introduced a new Mindstorms EV3 for 2013. The exact shipping date is unknown till around March 2013. Some are speculating this summer, other sources are stating Fall 2013. Teams who are registering for FIRST LEGO League (FLL) starting in May 2013 can pre-order the new EV3 kit and plan accordingly.

To anticipate questions from FLL teams, LEGO Education has published a detailed Q&A. In short, EV3 is allowed for the 2013-2014 FLL season, while the current Mindstorms NXT will be supported by LEGO till 2015.

More reviews and information can be found online.  These video1, video2, recorded at the LEGO EV3 unveiling on Jan. 7, 2013, give a quick overview of the new product.

Basically, LEGO will once again introduce a EV3 Retail kit ($350) and an EV3 Education kit ($435 with software) as it has previously done, where the software for the Education core set ($340) is sold separately.

The EV3 Education software will include many multimedia, user-friendly, short classroom curriculum, which is more suitable for formal instructional use, or for someone who has no prior Mindstorms experience. In-depth Mindstorms instructions was previously supplemented by Carnegie Mellon, now LEGO Education is recapturing that market in its new EV3 product line.

EV3 has a new programming language and is compatible with the NXT sensors, but NXT cannot program the EV3’s sensors or use the newly developed EV3 programming language. The rechargeable battery packs are not interchangeable between the NXT and EV3 bricks, but the charger is. All other LEGO Technic pieces can be used in both sets.

The Retail and Education core sets come with different components as well:

Education Set: 2 large motors, 1 small motor, 2 touch sensors, 1 color sensor, 1 ultrasonic sensor with red LED, 1 gyro sensor, 1 rechargeable battery. Software with multimedia instructional curriculum is not included.

Retail Set: 2 large motors, 1 small motor, 1 touch sensors, 1 color sensor, 1 IR proximity sensor, 1 remote IR beacon. Software is included.

There are definitely many long-awaited new features in EV3, such as the remote control capability using the remote IR beacon or iPhone/iPad/Android interface; the expanded memory with a USB port and a SD memory card reader; 4 motor ports (although FLL still only allows 3 motors for now); Wi-Fi data logging directly to the EV3 brick, and direct simple programming on the EV3 brick, etc.

The new EV3 brick is Linux-based, open source will sure pleased the hacker enthusiasts. It can be still programmed in NXT-G, LabView, RobotC as used in the middle school and high school robotics competitions.

FLL teams who are new in the 2013-14 season are advised to budget for the EV3 product line for fall 2013, but can do pre-season training using Mindstorms NXT if available. Veteran FLL teams has the option of continuing with Mindstorms NXT (since most teams are very familiar with the programming environment, and most bugs have been resolved by now), then phase into EV3 in 2014 or beyond.

As of now, EV3 is not yet part of the 2013-14 FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) season.

Happy New Year!

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NJ FIRST LEGO League State Championship Awards 2012

Posted by LRC on December 10th, 2012

NJ FIRST LEGO League “Senior Solutions” State Championship was held on December 8, 2012 at Mt. Olive High School in Flanders, NJ with 45 teams advanced from 8 regional qualifiers.

Awards Team # Team Name Organization Town
Champion’s Award #1 7824 Cyber Hawks Holdrum Middle School River Vale
Champion’s Award #2 1376 Exit 5 Robotics Livingston Robotics Club Livingston
Champion’s Award #3 10680 Dunkin Dobots American Christian School Succasunna
Project Research #1 3419 Wizards MS 4 Jersey City Public School Jersey City
Project Research #2 3425 Super Heros PS 17 Jersey City Public School Jersey City
Project Innovative Solution #1 2631 Robo Warriors Neighborhood Group Edison
Project Innovative Solution #2 6099 Robodragon Neighborhood Group Westfield
Project Presentation #1 14857 Silvertronics Neighborhood Group Budd Lake
Project Presentation #2 11069 Montville Robotics Neighborhood Group Montville
Core Values Inspiration #1 11677 Nano Gurus Neighborhood Group Morris Plains
Core Values Inspiration #2 8695 DreamChasers Neighborhood Group Plainsboro
Core Values Teamwork #1 2598 Princeton Asimoes Neighborhood Group Princeton
Core Values Teamwork #2 3420 Conti Cougars PS 5 Jersey City Public School Jersey City
CV Gracious Professionalism #1 4672 Tech Benders Neighborhood Group Edison
CV Gracious Professionalism #2 5921 Lego Techs Woodcliff Middle School Montvale
Robot Mechanical Design #1 4255 Mutant Psycho Dolphins Neighborhood Group South Orange
Robot Mechanical Design #2 8615 [untitled-1] Neighborhood Group Port Monmouth
Robot Programming #1 7187 Ex Nihilo Home School Stanhope
Robot Programming #2 8906 RoboCougars Neighborhood Group Chatham
Robot Strategy & Innovation #1 6159 Robo Runners Neighborhood Group Hillsborough
Robot Strategy & Innovation #2 14107 Brickmasters Neighborhood Group Hillsborough
Robot Performance #1 2710 BrainStormers (415) Neighborhood Group North Brunswick
Robot Performance #2 8695 DreamChasers (395) Neighborhood Group Plainsboro
Judges Award 5143 Team Yobotics Neighborhood Group Montclair
Judges Award 31 JDroids Neighborhood Group Wayne
Young Mentor Award 8615 Ian Rios [untitled-1] Port Monmouth
Mentor Award 3340 Dr. Espejo Academy 1 AEPEES Jersey City
Volunteer of the Year Award Marty Baker
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NJ FIRST LEGO League “Senior Solutions” Qualifier Results (12/1/12)

Posted by LRC on December 4th, 2012

 

NJ FLL Senior Solution Qualifers Team # Team Name Organization City
Liberty Science Center 12/1/12 (12 teams)
Champion’s Award 7185* Alpha Force Revolution Livingston Robotics Club Livingston
Robot Design 13774* Ancient Fire Waterfront Montessori Jersey City
Project 7276 Robolympians II St. Helena School Edison
Core Values 14857 Silvertronics Neighborhood Group Budd Lake
Robot Performance #1 3577 Protocol 9 (300) Livingston Robotics Club Livingston
Robot Performance #2 13774 Ancient Fire (280) Waterfront Montessori Jersey City
State 4672* Tech Benders Neighborhood Group Edison
Judges Award 2917 Bionic Bruins North Bergen School District North Bergen
Rising Star Award 6455 Super Solutions Livingston Robotics Club Livingston
Adult Mentor Award 14857 Evelyn Lavin Silvertronics Budd Lake
Future Leadership 7185 Matthew Alpha Force Livingston
Young Leaders Award 13774 Shawn & Hank Ancient Fire Jersey City
Bridgewater 12/1/12 (20 teams)
Champion’s Award 6085* Technomes Livingston Robotics Club Livingston
Robot Mechanical Design 12614 Braves Holy Trinity Interparochial School Westfield
Robot Programming 647 Spark Neighborhood Group South Plainfield
Robot Strategy & Innovation 8870 Bonk a bot Neighborhood Group Princeton
Project Presentation 6099* Robodragon Neighborhood Group Westfield
Project Research 12664* MarlboRobots Neighborhood Group Morganville
Project Innovative Solution 4574* SoMoRoBo South Mountain Robotics South Orange
Core Values Inspiration 2535 Bull Dogs The Center School Foundation Branchburg
Core Values Teamwork 5784 Techzilla Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey Riverdale
Gracious Professionalism 5783 Awesome to the 7th Power Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey Riverdale
Robot Performance #1 6085 Technomes (375) Livingston Robotics Club Livingston
Judges Award 8906* RoboCougars Neighborhood Group Chatham
Sparta 12/1/12 (12 teams)
Champion’s Award 5280* Senior Savers Lafayette Township School Lafayette
Robot Design 8530 Reverend Brown Robotics Reverend Brown School Sparta
Project 2643 RoboGirls GREAT Glen Rock
Core Values 15193*  Robo Trdtlo Geeks  Long Pond School Sparta
Robot Performance #1 4737 Sparta Robotics Blue (250) Sparta Robotics Club Sparta
State 15193 Robo Trdtlo Geeks Long Pond School Newton
State 3147* The Portalz Andover Regional Long Pond School Newton
Jersey City 12/1/12 (17 teams)
Champion’s Award 3440* Academy 1 AEPEES Jersey City Public School
Robot Mechanical Design 3420* Conti Cougars PS 5 Jersey City
Robot Programming 3431 Bears PS 34 Jersey City
Robot Strategy & Innovation 3433 JCPS PS 37 PS 37 Jersey City
Project Research 3430 Patriots PS 27 Jersey City
Project Innovative Solution 3420 Conti Cougars PS 5 Jersey City
Project Presentation 3440 Academy 1 AEPEES Jersey City Public School Jersey City
Core Values Inspiration 3424 Jaguars PS 12 Jersey City
Core Values Teamwork 3435 Mustangs PS 38 Jersey City
CV Gracious Professionalism 3419 Wizards MS 4 Jersey City
Robot Performance #1 3419* Wizards MS 4 J Jersey City
Robot Performance #2 3440 Academy 1 AEPEES Jersey City Public School Jersey City
Robot Performance #3 3425* Senior Heros PS 17 Jersey City
Against All Odds 3422 Eagles PS 11 Jersey City
Outstanding Volunteer 3425 Gissell Lugo PS 17 Jersey City
Adult Coach/Mentor 3430 Alexis Martinex PS 27 Jersey City
Young Mentor 3422 Sean McGee PS 11 Jersey City
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Livingston Robotics Club Teams Qualifiers Results

Posted by LRC on December 3rd, 2012

Livingston Robotics Club teams has an amazing season so far at various qualifiers.  Multiple teams took home the highest honors.  Out of ten teams competed, 9 took home an award. Five teams are advancing to FTC or FLL State Championships (as indicated with “*”). Congratulations teams!

The award list are as follows:

Landroids 4220*: Marlton FTC Inspire Award and Winning Alliance

Technomes 6085* : Bridgewater FLL Champions’ Award, #1 Robot Performance Award (375 points)

Exit 5 Robotics 1376* : Hillsborough FLL Champions’, #2 Robot Performance Award (310 points)

Alpha Force Revolution 7185*: Liberty Science Center FLL Champions’ Award

Protocol 9: Liberty Science Center #1 Robot Performance Award (300 points)

Powerflow 9015: Clifton #2 Robot Design Award

Dark Wolves 7865*: Clifton #3 Robot Design Award

Legobotics 7186: Clifton Core Values Award

Super Solutions 6455: Rising Star Award

Power Legends 5996: ranked #4 in Robot Design out of 12 teams at Liberty Science Center

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