On Sept. 23, The LRC hosted a guest speaker event with Nicole Wiley, Senior Engineer with American Water, to provide the LRC FLL team members with an in-depth discussion about the human water cycle. Nicole has over 20 years experience working in Environmental Engineering field with 10 of those years with American Water. Over 30 […]
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Thanks to the BASF Toastmaster Club, 15 kids from 9 LRC FLL teams started an 8-week Youth Leadership Program to hone their presentation and leadership skills. Distinguished Toastmaster Charlie Walter, Vice President Education Bill Davenport, and Yvonne Ferreira (herself a coach for LRC FLL team Dinothunder) ran the first session on September, 21 in the LRC […]
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Thanks to Livingston Water Department, LRC FLL teams Promethio and RoboRocks got a flush-start of the 2017 FLL Hydro Dynamics season on September, 13 with an inside (literally!) look at several of Livingston Township’s water facilities, including a well, barrack, and tanks. Jr. Utility Engineer Nathan Kiracofe and assistant Jessica showed the kids how water […]
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On Sunday, September 10, 2017 several teams from LRC shared their love for robotics at the opening of RWJBarnabas Health new Cooperman Pavilion at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. RWJBarnabas Health Saint Barnabas Medical Center has been a generous sponsor to the LRC so some of the LRC teams came out to celebrate the momentous occasion […]
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Spongebot members who participated in the FLL Global Innovation in the last season as Team A.I.R. brought their invention to inspire other children at World Maker Faire in New York on October 1-2. The team is among more than 950 exhibitors at the event with many thousands visitors. Our members who are also FLL Global Innovation […]
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It was an extremely exciting and busy Saturday across New Jersey where more than 200 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) teams competed in nine different regional tournaments on November 21, 2015. Amongst the ten FLL teams from Livingston Robotics Club, the club took home two Champions Awards (the highest honor), multiple 1st place awards in Robot […]
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Visiting a garbage recycling plant seems to be an unusual field trip designation to many, but on 10/19/2015, six out of ten FIRST LEGO League (FLL) teams from Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) took such tour of a recycling plant in preparation for the 2015 “Trash Trek” research challenge. Each year, as part of the FLL […]
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Exit 5 Robotics recently concluded their 2013/2014 FLL robotics competition season with the FLL NJ State Finals in March and the FLL NAOC (North American Open Championship) in May. The NJ State Finals this year hosted a record 72 teams. Against this tough field, the team walked out with two shiny pieces of hardware, a well deserved Champion’s […]
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LRC’ founding team, Landroids, has retired in June 2014 after 7 years! The team has captured many top national and international awards since 2007 by participate in various robotics and science competitions including FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge, FIRST Robotics Competition, eCYBERMISSION, MoonBots, Google Science Fair, and Lemlson-MIT Invent team. This group of neighborhood […]
On June 24, 2014, Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) organized a post-expo activity in Boston area as a follow up to the LRC Jr.FLL Expo in Livingston which took place back in May. This excursion was led by Spongebots, a FIRST LEGO League team of LRC. The participants were from The Electrons and Robotic Ninjas, Jr. FIRST LEGO […]
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