Beach Cities Robotics 2010 FLL Season
Beach Cities Robotics is in its third year of FIRST Lego League (FLL), for students 9 to 14 years of age. It's a great way to get students prepared for the high school team.We enter the winter of 2010 finishing up the 2009 FLL challenge, "Smart Move," a transportation theme. We had a great team and 2009 season and went to Legoland for the FLL Invitational Tournament on Saturday, February 6, 2010, the raniest day of the century.
The BCR Junior FLL team 917 at work.
Work on the Smart Move challenges continues.
Legoland FLL Invitational
We all drove down to Legoland in Carlsbad, California for a great team experience.
The drive team enters the auditorium. We were number 14 for the tournament.
Photo courtesy of Magnolia Serate.
Emma and Cole on table 2. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
Thumbs up, ready to go! George Chen is the referee facing the camera. George is a BCR
alumnus, graduating in 2004, the year we won the Chairman's Award at the LA FRC Regional
Competition. George put together our winning Chairman's Award Application. George is now a
college student and mentors a FRC team in San Diego. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
The pressure is on! Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
The action is intense. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
David and Cole on table 3. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Serate.
David and Cole on table 3. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Serate.
Cole on the big screen. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
Action on the table. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
The team watches. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
The kids had fun. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
The team watches. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Serate.
Parent mentor Don and Nathanial. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
After the tournament we pose for a photo. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
A good time was had by all. Photo courtesy of Wendy Fletcher.
After the competition and closing ceremony, the sun came out and we had fun on the rides.
Photo courtesy of Magnolia Serate.
Post-Season Events
We recruited new members for the post-season, leading into the summer. Coach Dr. John Davis created a new challenge to use sensing to find and retrieve balls on the field.
The team is growing!
Cole demonstrates his ball catcher mechanism to the team.
The two subteams, X and Y, hard at work!.
On Tuesday evening, May 24th the combined FRC and FLL teams went to the Redondo Beach School Board
meeting to demonstrate the FRC robot.
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