This year we are team 8760.
The kids had fun with programming robots.
Continuing learning programming LEGO Robots. Wednesday, September 24th.
Thursday, September 25th, the FLL students worked on project research.
Assembly of field mission models. Saturday, September 27th. Photo by Andrea.
The team assembled all 10 model sets in two hours. Photo by Andrea.
Working on programming robot missions.
Getting parts for building robots.
Testing robots on the field. Photo by Andrea
Saturday, October 4th. Photo by Andrea
Monday, October 6th. Photo by Andrea.
Working on the robot missions on the playing field.
Carter programmed the sports mission to shoot the blue ball into the goal. Photo by Andrea.
Wednesday, October 8th.
After project work in the classroom we went down to the robotics lab and did robot development.
Students work on robot programs in Mindstorms software.
Friday, October 10th: the Black Dragon, Ron Van Clief came to LEGO League to talk about fitness.
Ron's son Kai, wife Simina, and friend Sabrina from Maui also attended.
After Ron's talk about the importance of fitness and being motivated, we went downstairs and the kids demonstrated
their robots.
The team now have several missions working on three different robots. Photo by Andrea.
Saturday, October 11th. After working upstairs on the project presentation, we went downstairs to the
lab to work on robots.
Monday, October 13th. We had a robot run-off tournament and subteam C won (Hajin's team). This is the
winning robot, which the other two will be reconfigured to match.
Friday the 24th was a robot missions day. We also worked on the robot design executive summary.
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On Saturday we worked upstairs for two hours on project activities.
Monday the 27th was a robot development day. Kalani Robotics lent us two wheels and four batteries.
The kids were busy for the whole hour and 15 minutes.
Wednesday the 29th the team worked on making props for their skit.
Working on props. After making the props, we rehearsed the skit.
On Halloween the LEGO League students practiced their project presentation in front of volunteer teachers as judges.
Then the drive team and developers went down to the LEGO room to work on missions. The yearbook
photo kids took some pictures.
On Wednesday the 5th we worked on robot missions. Photo by Andrea.
Working on the missions. We did some simulated tournament play and worked on commenting code.
On Friday we took team pictures, worked on documents and the mascot, and practiced missions. Click the image to see the full
size version.
The shaka photo.
The goofy photo.
Saturday November 8th the team practiced their presentation.
Then the team presented their skit to their parents.
In the morning we did one last practice session outside the cafeteria.
The team waits for showtime in the pit area in the cafeteria.
The cafeteria in full swing with LEGO robotics.
I waited during the robot design evaluation. Photo by Andrea.
Waiting to go in for the core values evaluation.
Kalani Robotics student Courtney gets the kids ready for their green screen photo.
Looking at photo composite after green screen. Photo by Kalani Robotics.
The green screen photo. Scanned from print.
At the practice table. Photo by Andrea.
We posed for a group photo with our banner. Photo by Andrea.
The Kalani Robotics team members set up a robot display outside the gymnasium.
Science teacher Bryan Silver was master of ceremonies.
In the bleachers with our "go nuts" signs. Photo by Andrea.
Simina came to watch with her friend and kids.
Simina took this one with my cell phone.
We scored 158 (twice) on the table, giving us third place on robot performance. Photo by Andrea.
Simina took this one too.
The Kalani team got in on the green screen photos too.
At the beginning of the closing ceremonies. Photo by Kalani Robotics.
We won the Champion Award, the top prize.
The team after receiving the award posing for the official photo. Photo by Kalani Robotics.
We also won a place at the Hawaii State tournament on December 13, which is a separate honor. Photo by Kalani Robotics.
Afterward we all did the chicken dance. Photo by Kalani Robotics.
Last group photo. Photo taken by a parent with Andrea's camera.
The Kalani Robotics team poses. Photo by Kalani Robotics.
I scanned the inside of the thank you card from the team, signed by all nine students.
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