Director's Notes

Notes and thoughts from Forsyth FLL director James Trobaugh regarding the 2009 FLL season.
2009 Season concludes PDF Print E-mail
Written by James Trobaugh   
Monday, 25 January 2010 20:25

This past weekend the Georgia FIRST LEGO League ( FLL ) came to a conclusion at Georgia TECH with the Georgia FLL Championship. 48 FLL teams made up of 9-14 year olds competed in the final chapter of this year’s FLL Smart Move season.

The season began in Septemeber with 290 teams state wide getting ready to compete at local qualifiers in December. There were 28 teams from Forsyth County at the Forsyth FLL Qualifier held at West Forsyth High school on December 5th.

 

8 local teams advanced to the Super Regional event in Warner Robins, Georgia and two went to the Super Regional event at Southern Poly Tech in Cobb County Georgia. Forsyth teams took top honors at both of these events with Team Super Awesome coming in 1st place and the Crash Test Smarties coming in 3rd place in Warner Robins and the Brick Busters taking 2nd place at Southern Poly.

 

In total 6 Forsyth teams advanced to the Georgia State Championship. The final top 5 out of 48 teams included 3 Forsyth county teams; with the Brick Busters 2nd place Champions, Team Super Awesome 3rd place champions & Crash Test Smarties receiving 3rd place robot performance.

Forsyth teams results at Super Qualifiers:

Crash Test Smarties – 3rd place robot performance,  3rd place robot design
OctoGeeks – 2nd place teamwork
Team Super Awesome – 1st place robot performance, 1st place Champions award
Brick Busters – 2nd place robot performance, 1st place robot design
Super Stars – advancing to state
StarBotz – advancing to state

Forsyth teams results at the Georgia State Championship:

Crash Test Smarties – 3rd place robot performance
OctoGeeks – 3rd place robot design
Team Super Awesome –3rd place Champions award
Brick Busters – 2nd place robot performance, 2nd  place Champions  award

Way to go Forsyth county teams, you all did a great job!

 
Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 20:27
 
2009 Field Kit resources PDF Print E-mail
Written by James Trobaugh   
Friday, 31 July 2009 19:15

The time is near for the 2009 Smart Move fields to start showing up. They should be arriving for teams that registered early in the next week or so. Already on the web there are images of the field items available.

http://www.techbrick.com/Lego/Lego2009/Resources/

This is a great site to visit for worksheets and other helpful programming tools.
 
Forsyth FLL qualifier Location PDF Print E-mail
Written by James Trobaugh   
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:16

I'm happy to announce that the Forsyth FLL Qualifier for 2009 will be held at Forsyth's West High School this year. The qualifier will be held on December 5th, 2009.

We are so lucky to have schools such as West High School that are committed to promoting technology with in our county.

 
Georgia FLL Social Networking PDF Print E-mail
Written by James Trobaugh   
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 18:08
For those of you that use social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook you can now follow the Georgia FLL.

Twitter: GaFLL

FaceBook: Georgia FLL

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 18:13
 
FREE FLL coaches training Saturday 5/16 sponsored by YES PDF Print E-mail
Written by James Trobaugh   
Friday, 15 May 2009 02:23

I just wanted to pass this along to all the teams, the YES organization is sponsoring a FLL coaches training session this weekend at Wheeler High school. If you are a new FLL coach or even a returning coach this could be a very useful session.

 

Here are the details that I have:

 

This Saturday (May 16th), 9:00 AM til noon at Wheeler High (RSVP for directions).

 

This FREE coaches training is sponsored by YES – Youth Engaged in Science and hosted by the Wheeler High School CircuitRunners (in Marietta), all FLL coaches are invited – especially if you are a new coach or just completed your first or second season. There is no set agenda, but we plan on covering the following:

1) How to register a team and what to expect after you do

2) What to do during the summer

3) What's this research project thing?

4) Team management

5) Season timeline

6) Resources available

7) Q&A with other coaches

 

Please RSVP to Mannie Lowe ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Mary Roberts ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for directions and room location at Wheeler.

Last Updated on Friday, 15 May 2009 02:27
 
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