FLL Teams
FIRST LEGO League (ages: 9 – 14 in the U.S.)
The LRC 2017-18 FLL teams are as follow:
(LRC application completed)
Exit 5A Robotics #2228 (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018)
Team Type: All-girls. Competitive
Coaches: Bill Lam, Carmen Yung
Members: Eight (8) girls: 8th grade
Location: Livingston, NJ
Spongebot #6963 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017). aka Team A.I.R.
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Surasit Nithikasem
Members: Eight (8) 5th to 9th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
RoboRocks #23702 (2016, 2017)
Team Type: Competitive (LRC Jr FLL Graduate)
Coach: Geoffrey Zheng, Jim Wang
Members: Five (5) 5th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
Power Star Robot #23782 (2016, 2017)
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Xiaole (George) Shen, Laijun Xie
Members: Seven (7) 5th and 6th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
Robot Nation #24309 (2016, 2017)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Alissa Getts, Jim Bender
Members: Six (6) 5th graders
Location: Florham Park, NJ
Promethio #25320 (2016 – 3Engineers, 2017)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Jay Slavin, Sachin Sawant
Members: Five (5) 6th to 8th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
V-Bots #23361 (2016 – Minionbots, 2017)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Tracy Yu, Linda Zhang
Members: Five (5) 3rd to 6th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
Dino Thunder #32374 (new 2017)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Yvonne and Manuel Ferrerira
Members: Two (2) 4th and 6th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
VenumBots #32581 (new 2017)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Ariel Zhang, Kate Chang
Members: Five (5) 4th to 7th graders
Location: Millburn, NJ
Adroit Robotics #15878 (2014, 2015, 2016 RoboDevils, 2017)
Team Type: All-girls. Competitive
Coaches: Nikhil Dhurandhar, Sona Ahlawat
Members: Four (4) 6th to 8th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
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Former LRC FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Teams:
Teknado #17011 (2015, 2016)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Alissa Getts, Kelly Winters
Members: Five (5) 7th and 8th graders
Location: Florham Park, NJ
Robobuilders #16822 (2015, 2016)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Steve Raz, Yivonne Ferreira
Members: Five (5) 5th to 8th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
Lego Super Starz #15853 (2015, 2016)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Nanda Kumar, Arvinth Narayanan
Members: Six (6) 5th to 7th graders
Location: Parsippany, NJ
RoboDevils #11301 (2014, 2015, 2016)
Team Type: All-girls. Competitive
Coaches: Nikhil Dhurandhar, Ravi Chiplunka
Members: Seven (7) 5th to 8th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
HIPE Robotics #15651 (2015, 2016)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Jingru Wang, Elaine Howe
Members: Seven (7) 5th and 7th graders
Location: Ridgewood, NJ
Lego Engineers # (2015)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Siva Vaithiyalingam, Sujatha Panda-Jothiraman
Members: Five (5) 4th to 7th graders
Location: Parsippany, NJ
Robostorms # (2015)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Raminder Ahlawat, Nikhil Dhurandar
Members: Four (4), 4th to 6th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
Mindstormers # (2015)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Chan Lin, Hong Gao
Members: Five (5), 4th graders
Location: Livingston, NJ
Power Legends (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Team Type: Enrichment
Coach: Dorian Bailey
Members: Nine (9) 5th and 6th graders
Awards:
2011 Liberty Science Center Qualifier Judges Award
2013 Hillsborough Qualifier Robot Design Award
Location: Florham Park, NJ
Robrostorms #3830 (2014)
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Olga Pylypovych
Members: Six (6) 5th and 6th graders
Location: Glen Rock, NJ
Award: FLL Global Innovation Award Finalist
Super Solutions (2012, 2013, 2014)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Eric Jacobowitz, Laurie Rubenstein
Members: Eight (8) 7th graders
Award: 2012 Liberty Science Center Qualifier Rising Star Award
Location: Livingston, NJ
Gigabots (2014)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Jason Zweig, Ming Shih
Members: Eight (8) 4th to 5th graders
Location: Essex Fells, NJ
Exit 5 Robotics (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) – Transitioned to FTC 2015 and VEX in 2015
Team Type: All-girls. Competitive
Coaches: Bill Lam, Yitao Yu, Holly Lam
Members: Ten (10) girls: 4th to 8th grade
Location: Livingston, NJ
Awards:
2010 Bergen Qualifier: #1 Robot Performance
2010 NJ State Championship: Judges Award, #3 Robot Performance
2011 Liberty Science Center Qualifier: Champion’s Award, #1 Robot Performance
2011 NJ State Championship: #2 Champion’s Award, #4 Robot Performance
2012 World Invitational Open in Florida LEGOLand: Participant
2012 Hillsborough Qualifier: Champions’ Award, #2 Robot Performance
2012 NJ State Championship: 2nd place Champion’s Award, #5 Robot Performance
2013 North American Open Championship: 2nd Place Gracious Professionalism Award
2013 Sparta Qualifier: 1st Place Project Award, #1 Robot Performance
2013 NJ State Championship: 3rd place Champion’s Award, #2 Robot Performance
2014 North American Open Championship: 2nd Place Gracious Professionalism Award, Honorable Mention Research Project
2014 Google Lunar XPrize Moonbots Finalist
Alpha Force (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) – aged out in 2014
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Janea Agbayani, Jojo Agbayani
Members: Seven (7) 4th to 8th graders (co-ed)
Location: Livingston
Awards:
2009 Hillsborough Qualifier #1 Robot Design
2011 Bergen Qualifier #1 Robot Design
2012 Liberty Science Center Qualifier: Champion’s Award
Technomes (2011, 2012, 2013)
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Liyan Cao, Susan Ye
Members: Six (6) 6th and 7th graders
Award: 2012 Bridgewater Qualifier Champion’s Award, #1 Robot Performance
Location: Livingston
PowerFlow (2012, 2013)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Jia Fang, Cindy Wang
Members: Four (4) 6th to 8th graders
Award: 2012 Clifton Qualifier Robot Design Award
Location: Livingston
Protocol 9 (2012, 2013)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Jessica Tang, Jennifer Chen
Members: Eight (8) 4th to 7th graders
Award: 2012 Liberty Science Center Qualifier #1 Robot Performance Award
Location: Livingston
Dragobots # 8382 (2013)
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Marilou Geverola
Members: Three (3) 4th and 5th graders
Location: Old Bridge
Monsterbots #2943 (2013, 2014)
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Neetu Salhotra
Members: Six (6) 3rd to 5th graders
Location: Short Hills
MEGAMotors #9173 (2013)
Team Type: Competitive
Coaches: Sunil Gaglani, AJ Chen
Members: Five (5) 3rd to 5th graders
Location: Livingston
Legobotics (Jr FLL graduate, 2012)
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Bonnie Spring
Members: Nine (9) 4th and 5th graders
Award: 2012 Clifton Qualifier Core Values Award
Location: Livingston
Dark Wolves (2012)
Team Type: Competitive
Coach: Mujia Chen
Members: Five (5) 4th & 7th graders
Award: 2012 Clifton Qualifier Robot Design Award
AstroBoys (Jr FLL graduate, 2011, 2012)
Team Type: Recreational and non-competitive
Coach: Yiren Wang
Members: Three (3) 3rd grade to 7th grader boys
Landrias (FLL 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) – aged out in 2012
Team Type: Competitive, all-girls, training 6 hrs/week (September to December)
Coaches: Pearl Hwang, John Yeh, Po-shing Lee
Members: Four 8th grade girls
(team mentoring only for 2011-12)
Awards:
2008 NJ State Championship 2nd place Robot Design; Montclair Qualifier 2nd place Robot Design
2009 Montclair Qualifier Champion’s Award
2010 Bergen Qualifier Champion’s Award, #2 Robot Performance
2010 NJ State Championship #3 Robot Design Award
2011 FLL Global Innovation Award 9th place
2011 FLL World Festival Stand-in Team #1 “Friends of FIRST”
Supreme Machine (FLL 2010, 2011) – aged out in 2012
Team Type: Competitive, training 4+ hrs/week (September to December)
Coach: Jannie Zheng, Howard Tang
Members: Five 6th to 8th grade boys
Awards:
2010 Montclair Qaulilfier #2 Robot Performance
2011 Clifton Qualifier #1 Robot Design
Technophiles (2009, 2010)
Team Type: Competitive, training 6 hrs/week (September to December)
Coach: Stephanie Bash-Soudry
Members: six 6th to 8th graders
Thunderclan (2009, 2010)
Team Type: Competitive, training 4 hrs/week (September to December)
Coaches: Shiming Yang & Julia Zhu
Members: Six 7th grade boys
Awards:
2009 Hillsborough Qualifier #1 Research Project
2009 NJ State Championship #2 Robot Design Award
SciBotech (2008, 2009) – aged out in 2010
Team Type: Competitive, training 8 hrs/week (September to December)
Coaches: Janice Pepper (project) and Michele Weis (robotics), Po-Shing Lee (2008 founder)
Members: Six 8th grade boys
Awards:
2008 NJ State Championship #2 Research Project; Hamilton Qualifier #1 Research Project.
2009 Montclair Qualifier Judge’s Award
r2d2 (FLL 2009) – team inactive in 2010
Team Type: Competitive, training 3 to 6 hrs/week (September to December)
Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey (robotics and project)
Coordinators: Cindy Wang & Connie Lam
Members: Five 5th grade boys
Year-round formal robot programming training at Storming Robots
Landroids (FLL 2007, 2008, 2009) – Transition to FTC 2010
Team Type: Competitive, training 10 hrs/week (year-round)
Coaches: John Yeh (robotics), Pearl Hwang (project)
Members: Six 8th grade boys
Awards (major awards only):
2007 NJ FIRST LEGO League State Championship: #1 Champion’s Award
2008 FIRST LEGO League World Festival: #2 Robot Design, #3 Robot Performance (International/Atlanta, GA)
2008 NJ FIRST LEGO League State Championship: #1 Champion’s Award
2009 FIRST LEGO League US Open #1 Champion’s Award, Battelle Founder’s Award, #1 Robot Alliance Award (National/Ohio)
2009 NJ FIRST LEGO League State Championship: #1 Robot Design Award
2010 Grand Challenge Stories nominee (National)
2010 eCYBERMISSION #1 National 8th grade winner (National, Baltimore, MD)
2010 Google X PRIZE Moonbots #1 international grand prize winner (Global)