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FIRST Lego League 2018-19 Teaser Revealed
The FIRST FLL 2018-19 Teaser “Into Orbit” is revealed. We are going back to Space for next year’s competition. Ideas about Space Junk, Space Supplies, Space Habitat Creation…. and the list goes on for ideas for research. Can’t wait to get started as SAS Pudong!
Link Into Orbit
Image/Info From (https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/fll/challenge-and-season-info)
Headed to ECIS Library Triennial 2018
Barbara and Tim Boyer are headed to ECIS Library Triennial 2018 in Chennai, India Feb 16-17, 2018. We are looking forward to presenting on the topic “FIRST Robotics in the Library: Why Should a Librarian be Involved?“. We will be talking about how librarians can be instrumental assisting students further their work in robotics.
Our Presentation Description–With all the hype about makerspaces, how can robots in the library really be part of a library program? Learn about the international program of FIRST and how librarians can provide opportunities for students to be inspired in science and technology. The FIRST Lego League and the Junior program will be discussed in their connections to inquiry and authentic research skills. Students are judged on their ability to present their research in a creative format and citing your sources is key. Librarians can lead the way in bringing robotics to your school and the presenters can show you how! You do not need to know how to program a robot to start this program at your school.
We are working to upload presentation materials to this blog site.
SAS Pudong FLL Team in St. Louis
April 27th. The SAS FLL team undertook a walkabout Tuesday morning down to the St Louis Arch. Today the meet begins with registration and Pit setup. It will be a long day of setup and practice. Pictures coming this evening.
SAS Pudong Heads to the First World Championships
SAS PD is off To the First World Festival–Today SAS Pudong Lego World Festival Team begins its trip to the Lego World Festival Championships held in St. Louis, Missouri. From Left to Right Alex Chen(10th), and Owen Liang(10th), Kevin Xu(8th), and Will Xu (10th) have been working very hard since February to prepare for this amazing opportunity. We will be not only representing our school, but we will be 1 of three teams representing the country of China.
Together, with two other SAS Pudong First Lego Teams, this team undertook a research project that looked at the way trash is collected and processed out of SAS Pudong. They have created and shared their research findings and will be taking their presentation to show the judges at the Championship. They have completely retooled their EV3 robot competition missions and on their last practice (Saturday) they broke 600 points on the competition board. They are still madly working to complete 1 additional board mission and if they get it and all the stars align they have the potential to break 700 pts which would be an awesome achievement. They have developed and will be presenting a Lego Core Values Presentation and a Design presentation to judges as well at the competition.
The Actual Competition runs from Wednesday, April 27th to Saturday, April 30th. Our SAS team is one of three teams representing China. Yes, the students and coaches (Barbara Boyer, Kevin David, and Tim Boyer) are feeling the pressure but the opportunity to compete and see other teams from around the world in the 4 First Levels (First Lego Jr, First Lego League, First Tech Challenge, and First Robotics Competition) is something that the coaches and most of these students have been working at for the last 4 years.
The Team Activities will be out on Twitter, or you can also check out our blog posts at
- http://sites.saschina.org/pdlibrary/
- http://sites.saschina.org/pdlibrary/sas-fll-2015/
- or follow us using #SASPDFLL
You can follow on twitter @SASPDLIB. Search this #SASPDFLL to see our progress.
You can also follow the Live Feed at the site below.
The Championship will be live streamed at http://www.firstchampionship.org/watch-championship-live
A HUGE thanks to all the volunteers, Faculty and Staff at SAS Pudong that have worked to make this all happen.
SAS MS FLL Team Set for Next Saturday
Jan 31st – The SAS PD MS First Lego League Teams are getting set for next Saturday’s (Feb 7th) trip to HIS to compete. We are taking 8 teams as well as a boat load of equipment. We will be transporting 4 of our Lego competition boards as well as 6 of of Challenge Missions to HIS for the meet. Students are still working of various parts of their Presentations and Programing so this first competition is really about seeing where each team is an what they have to work on. The Final Competition of the year will be at SAS Pudong where we could see upwards of 40 teams which is double last year’s number.
So here we go “3..2..1..LEGO!”
SAS PD First Lego League Tourney
Jan 24th – The SAS PD First Lego League Tourney will take place on the SAS Pudong Campus January 25th. We, the Secondary Library (Barbara and Tim Boyer, and the MS (Kevin David) with a whole host of Volunteers from the SAS PD campus including others will host 21 MS FLL Teams as they compete in FLL 2013 “Nature’s Fury” Research, Programing Design and Robot Mission competitions. SAS, both the Pudong and Puxi Campuses as well as CISS and HIS have teams involved in this competition. If you are interested in Legos and the Middle School Level Robotics you need to check out First Lego League. For More Links and Information Check out the FLL Link above or go to the First Lego League Web site. More coming soon as pictures and FLL Links are added
First Lego League Web Link – > http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2013naturesfury
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