Forces of the Galaxy
FIRST LEGO League Team 2018-2019
My name is Kyoungjoo. I am 11 years old and in grade 6. I go to General
Gordon Elementary School and attend the French Immersion Program. The British Columbia First Lego League (BC FLL) Championship was held on February 03, 2018. There were lots of teams all from the different places in BC, and we competed against all of them. How did I feel? I actually felt great, because this was my second time participating in the BC FLL Championship. Early in the morning before the robot runs, we did the Project Presentation, Core Values and Robot Design Presentations. They went pretty well, but everything went downhill on our first robot game. Somehow, our robot stopped moving after a few cm. Since this was the first time our robot ever failed, everybody was shocked and speechless. Some of the team members started crying. We found out that one of the cables weren’t put in properly. Our second run was a disaster, too. This time, one of the robot’s sensors was malfunctioning. Finally, our third and final run went great. We didn’t get all the missions done, but our team got a decent score. At the time the organizers were going to announce the trophies, our team didn’t really hope for us to get a trophy, but our team did. We received the Gracious Professionalism Award. In other words, it was the teamwork award. When we won the award, the judges explained why the award was given to us. The reason was that on our first and second robot runs when everything went wrong, none of us blamed each other unlike the other teams did. So, that was pretty cool. After the competition, we went to Dairy Queen for a celebration. While we were enjoying our frozen treats, our coaches announced that we would be going to Tallinn, Estonia in Europe for an FLL Open International Competition. Everybody was excited. The reason for this was because we won the first place at the BC Lower Mainland Championship which was held on December 02, 2017. Estonia is a country in Northern Europe, and its capital is Tallinn. Estonia is celebrating their 100 th anniversary, so they are hosting the FLL Open International with 100 teams from more than 80 countries, to celebrate STEM, Robotics and old Estonia traditions. The Forces of Atlantis is honored to be invited to represent Canada along with other 3 teams. Since we needed a lot of money for the plane fare and accommodation, we decided to fundraise for the cost. Our goal for the fundraising is $15,000. So, one of our team members, named Lulu, and our coach, Ana, made a website for an online fundraising (www.gofundme.com/forcesofatlantis). Our team will also do bake sales and other types of fundraising like day camps for robotics and door to door fundraising.
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AuthorDavid, Forces of Atlantis team member (Grade 6) Today, Lulu and I started on the modifications for our Mindstorms EV3 robot suit. Previously, it kept falling apart when transported and took up too much space, so Lulu and I began making major changes on it. Elijah had many ideas to contribute and he sketched right away a building plan. At the same time, Kevin and Iokasti, began perfecting one of their previous missions by making a new attachment for it.
To give the team “energy” after the long, hard school day, my Dad brought everyone cinnamon buns and cookies! Even though we worked very hard today and did not get distracted, we still have a lot of work left to do. AuthorLulu Golland - Forces of Atlantis Team Member (Gr. 8) When we won first place in the FIRST LEGO League Lower Mainland Tournament in N. Surrey last December, we were shocked. There are three components to the Competition: Core Values, Project, and Robot Game. Of these we knew that we had done well with our Project presentation and we also knew that we had captured the essence of the FLL Core Values. However, we also knew that definitely we could have done better in our Robot Game. So we were surprised when we won first place, since there we were not the top score on the Robot Game. We were very busy in the months leading up to the regional tournament. The first couple of weeks we were quite chilled, building our robot, figuring out the mat, listening to music (mostly the soundtrack for the musical Hamilton), and having fun. We built a robot which had many components called attachments. These attachments are meant for doing multiple missions on the robot game mat all at the same time with ease. Then we figured out our strategy for which missions to focus on, and went on to spend the next several weeks programming our robot and debugging through trial and error. As the deadline approached things got a bit more serious. By this time we had to get work done on our project and create the content for Core Values poster. Also our team decided to participate in the FLL Song Parody Challenge, so we wrote lyrics to the tune of three songs from the musical Hamilton (Cabinet Battle #1, The Ten Duel Commandments, and The Battle of Yorktown). We incorporated our Song Parody into our Project presentation at the competition later on. The Lower Mainland Tournament in December was a fun and exciting experience, but it was not the end of our journey, as there was more excitement in the months to come. |
About our team:We are FIRST LEGO League Team # 33968, a.k.a. Forces of the Galaxy from Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. We will be representing BC Canada at the FLL Championships in Houston, TX in April 2019 - https://www.firstchampionship.org/houston This Isn't a Robot
Wondering what we mean when we say FIRST is #morethanrobots? Watch this video (courtesy of RadicalMedia) Our Schools:
Norma Rose Point Elementary, Vancouver EBUS Academy Distributed Learning General Gordon Elementary, Vancouver McKay Elementary, Richmond David Lloyd George Elementary, Vancouver OUR SPONSORS:
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