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Local teams win big at Northern State Championship

12/13/2016

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Team 1920 - Flufflepuff (Part of GEARS, a ETHOS Science Center Program) takes top award, 1st Place Champion Award. They will advance onto the World Championship held April in St. Louis.
44 of the top FIRST LEGO League Teams (ages 10-14) competed in the Northern State Championships Dec 10th at the IPWF campus in Fort Wayne.  

This included 10 of the top teams from the local E3 Robotics Qualifying Tournament, in Elkhart, and 8 teams from the NCI Qualifying Tournament in Granger.


FIRST LEGO League, and FIRST LEGO League Jr are a part of FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. FIRST is trying to help inspire kids grades K-12 to love science and technology and seek jobs in these high paying fields of work.
Each year a new theme comes out for teams each year. This years theme is "Animal Allies" for FIRST LEGO League, teams focused on Animals, their habitats, and the human interaction with them. 

​For those FIRST LEGO League Teams they also focus on a Robot Game. With teams competing on a 4'x8' board with the "Animal Allies" them. Some of the challenges teams had to design and program their robot for was to transport a Bee on to a Bee Hive, Move a Dog Trainer and Animal Vet to marked areas on the board. Collect food and feed animals around the board, and if possible try to hang their robot on a wall with a gecko!
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Team 3006 - Beigerbots (From Beiger Elementary in Mishawaka) takes 2nd Place Champion Award. They will advance onto the Razorback International held May on the University of Arkansas Campus.
Many more teams took top level award from the area as well. Keep reading for full list of awards and links to pictures from the event. 

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FLL Qualifying Tournament 2016 & FLLJr Expo

11/14/2016

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Thank you to this years Tournament Sponsors: Lippert Components, First State Bank, Community Foundation of Elkhart County, Elkhart Community Schools, NIBCO, and ETHOS Science Center.
36 FIRST LEGO League Teams (ages 10-14) came together November 12th to compete in the E3 Robotics Center Qualifying tournament at Elkhart Memorial High School. And 16 FIRST LEGO League Jr Team (ages 6-10) came to present at the local expo as well. 

FIRST LEGO League, and FIRST LEGO League Jr are a part of FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. FIRST is trying to help inspire kids grades K-12 to love science and technology and seek jobs in these high paying fields of work. 
​Each year a new theme comes out for teams each year. This years theme is "Animal Allies" for FIRST LEGO League, and "Creature Craze" for FIRST LEGO League Jr. In both of these themes teams focused on Animals, their habitats, and the human interaction with them. 
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For those FIRST LEGO League Teams they also focus on a Robot Game. With teams competing on a 4'x8' board with the "Animal Allies" them. Some of the challenges teams had to design and program their robot for was to transport a Bee on to a Bee Hive, Move a Dog Trainer and Animal Vet to marked areas on the board. Collect food and feed animals around the board, and if possible try to hang their robot on a wall with a gecko!

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ECS Practice Invite 2015 

10/4/2015

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18 FIRST LEGO League Teams came together October 1st to practice for the FLL (FIRST LEGO Leauge) Qualifying Tournament in November.  

FLL is part of FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. FIRST is trying to help inspire kids grades K-12 to love science and technology and seek jobs in these high paying fields of work. 
FLL is part of FIRST making up the 4th-8th grade range of their 4 Robotics Programs.

​Each year FLL comes out with a different Theme for the 4x8 board the teams will run their robot on. This years theme is "Trash Trek", which is all about what happens to items when we are done with them? 
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Some of the missions this year were, Demolishing a building to recycle materials, composting food items, installing a engine into a car to fix it and reuse it, save animals by getting plastic bags out of their habitat, and using methane to power factories and buildings. 

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ECS FLL Practice Invite - Scores Below

10/10/2014

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18 Elkhart FIRST LEGO League Teams came together October 2nd to practice for the FLL (FIRST LEGO Leauge) Qualifying Tournament in November.  

FLL is part of FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. FIRST is trying to help inspire kids grades K-12 to love science and technology and seek jobs in these high paying fields of work. FLL is part of FIRST making up the 4th-8th grade range of their 4 Robotics Programs. 
Each year FLL comes out with a different Theme for the 4x8 board the teams will run their robot on. This years theme is FLL World Class, which is all about Education and Learning in and outside the classroom. 

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