Engineering for Grade 3 to 12
- Overview
- The Computing Olympiad (Gr9+)
- ZeroRobotics-MIT/NASA (Gr9+)
- RobocupJunior (Gr6-12)
- FIRST LEGO League (Gr4-6)
- Q & A
- Sponsors
Overview
We have actively participated in the various regional and state tournament since 2005. All participants are our roboclub members. The major annual competitions that we have participated include: Read our QnA Page if you are interested in being part of our teams.Major Goals
- Sustaining motivation and inspiring more inquiries in in-depth knowledge about robotics;
- With the appropriate robotics competition, we encouraging students to delve in learning about full automation, and exploration in the realm of artificial intelligence.
- Strengthen competitiveness in science and technology, with integrity, sportsmanship, and professionalism.
Our motto
"Learning is like breathing! Using others' success as inspiration and motivation. Competing against yourself and using your past achievement as a gauge for improvement, not others' ".
Your advertising sponsorship will:
- develop your brand loyalty among the families who are committed to their children's education in engineering;
- make your brand known among this young demographics;
- help us to build a technology savvy generation
- Your sponsorship not only will assist our participation in competitions, but also assist in exploring advanced learning from various professional experts in science and technology arenas.
Sponsorship Levels:
| Storming Sponsor | $1000 |
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| Platnium Sponsor | $400 |
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| Gold Sponsor | $150 |
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| silver Sponsor | $80 |
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| BAse Sponsor | $50 |
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2012 RoboCupJunior
Storming Robots’ teams took First Place in three out of seven Leagues. In the RoboRescueA Primary League.On April 22nd, 2012, the Seventh US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Liberty Science Center in NJ. There were competitors from other states such as North Carolina, PA, NY, and NJ. Forty-plus teams competed in several Leagues at the event.
Winning teams:
Epic Taco: (read about the team):
Took First Place at Rescue A/Primary League. It consists of two team members, Sean Doran (6th grader from Branchburg) and Vishnu NV Pathmanaban (5th grader from Bridgewater).The Dimensions (read about the team):
Took First Place at RoboSoccer/Primary League. It consists of three team members, Sunny Aggarwal (9th grader from Bridgewater) and Vadym Glushov and Luke Dai (both 8th grader from Belle Mead).SR-chitect: (read about the team):
Won the First Place in the RoboRescue B High School League. It consists of three members, Andre Gou (9th grader from Warrensville), Michael Xie (8th grader from Bridgewater) and Eric Ward (8th grader from Flemington).CheezPuffz: (read about the team):
Won the Second Place in the RoboRescue A/Primary League. It consists of two members, William Cui (7th grader from Basking Ridge), Zeriozha Zakharkin(8th grader from Basking Ridge). (Newly added member Ashley Yang will join them World Event.)All teams are invited to compete at the 2012 RobocupJunior World Event in the Mexico City during the week of June 18th.
| Date | April 22nd, 2012. |
| Location: | Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ. |
| Official Details: | Visit 2012 Event
Information & Schedule site about the schedule, teams
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the event details. Visit USA-RCJ website about technical details on leagues, rules, etc. |
| Checkin-time: | 8:00am |
Game Starts: | 9:00am |
| Summarized information (updated on April 7th) | |
| This is only a summary. Please always review the detailed information provided on the USA-RCJ . | |
| Time: | Should be there to check in no later than 8:00am |
| Fee: | No entrance fee for all "Registered" participants. Everyone else will be subject to LSC entrance fee. |
| Parking: | $7/day. LSC's parking is under different management, so every parking will be subject to $7/day fee |
| Lunch: | Every "Registered" participant will be given $5 voucher. You can use it at the LSC cafeteria. You can always purchase more food at the LSC, of course. |
| Arrive Late: | If you come in after 9am, you may have to pay for the entrance fee. RCJ will not be responsible for obtaining your refund. |
| MUST READ! Notes to Parents (UPDATED ON aPRIL 7TH) | |
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Most of these participants have been working very hard. The challenge is much more difficult than the field appears to be. Like what SR has always encouraged the students to understand that it IS THE PROCESS where they learn the most from, not the result. Therefore, parents, please convey the message to them that we all applause their effort. Meanwhile, at the event, please do the following:
Since some of the students are still very young. All team members follow the following rules:
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| Our Teams - (UPDATED ON mARCH 4TH) | |
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Head Mentor: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams.
Students Mentors: Morgan Van Blacrum, Avery Katko, and Matthew Goldman |
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| Teams: | Two Primary Soccer. One Secondary Soccer. Nine Primary Rescue A. Two Secondary Rescue A. Two Rescue B. Two RoboDance. |
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Registration: This cost listed below includes registration
and the Tshirt. The registration cost goes to the event host, not Storming Robots.
Storming Robots simply consolidates all individual
payments and send RCJ a single check on your behalf. Therefore, please write
the check to "Storming Robots".
T-Shirts included: Shirt cost goes to the shirts printer. SR is simply doing this on your behalf. Making a shirt wtih each individual team name and appealing color will be prized at an exorbitant cost, approx. $35/shirt and parents have to get one as well in order to meet the 6 shirts minimum. SR will try its best to stay maximum of $20 each. SR will place the order with a design at its own discretion. Therefore, $20 is added into the final fee. If you feel you wish a certain design, color and your team name must show on the shirts, etc., you must contact us no later than March 10th. You will be responsible to design, order the shirts for the team, and collect payments from other team parents. Please submit no later than March
10th. Cost of each team member listed below. |
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| RoboDance/P: Brenna, Colleen, Sanjana | $68 | RoboRescue A/P - Hugh, John, Janathon | $68 | ||
| RoboDance/S - Matthew (pending) | tbd | RoboRescue A/P - Sean, Vishnu | $80 | ||
| RoboSoccer A/P - Ben B. and Nikhil | $80 | RoboRescue A/P - Dhruv, Swathi, Tyler | $68 | ||
| RoboSoccer A/P - Luke, Sunny, Vadym | $68 | RoboRescue A/P - Anish, Dhruv | $80 | ||
| RoboSoccer A/P - Ben W., Brady, Steven | $68 | RoboRescue A/P - Seriozha, William | $80 | ||
| RoboRescue B - Andre, Eric, Michael | $68 | RoboRescue A/P - Ashley, Bhavik, Justin | $68 | ||
| RoboRescue B - Andrew A., Salil, Uday | $68 | RoboRescue A/P - Aaron, Hunter, Rishab | $68 | ||
| RoboRescue A/P - Ananya, Ashwin, Rohan | $68 | RoboRescue A/P - Joseph, Nikolaj, Prateek | $68 | ||
| RoboRescue A/P - Daniel, Lawrence | $80 | ||||
Teams
USA Computing Olympiad
To align with our goal in strengthening and challenging the indispensable computational thinking skill in our youngsters, Storming Robots will select our roboclub students to participate in the 2011-2 USA Computing Olympiad. USACO is a very competitive programming contest. It is part of the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics) program which is very well known and highly regarded in international level.
Perspective participants in 2011-2 Contests:
- Matthew Sicotte (Grade10/Fall2011)
- Andre Gou (Grade9/Fall2011).
View contests schedule
FLL 2011 - Rookie Teams advanced to State Tournament
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Team : The Noisy BoyS Sean, Andrew, Vishnu, Janathan, and John Peter (have been with SR since 2009 or 2010) Regional: Won The Best Presentation Award. |
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Team : The SuperBot Hugh, Howard, Johnt (3rd graders) (have been with SR since 2009) Regional: Won The Teamwork Award. |
Criteria to advance to the State Tournament has changed
this year:
Mt. Olive High School, 18 Corey Rd., Flanders, NJ 07836 Event Date: December 10th, 2011. |
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2011 World RCJ
Storming Robots, in three straight years, won the 1st place to represent the USA at the Robocup International Robotics Tournament. The 2011 Event will be held at Istanbul.Representing the United States in the International RoboCupJunior division of the competition is the PI2 Team, Andrew Amerman and Salil Pathare. They will compete against other young students their age from over 30 different countries including China, Japan and Germany, etc. In addition, they will also take all the challenge to collaborate with an assigned international team.
They will also have the rare opportunity to watch many other research (PHD) and industrial level robotics AI-Oriented competitive robots and inventions from different countries all in the same facility.
2011 RCJ
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On April 10th, 2011, the Sixth NorthEast Regional RoboCupJunior
robotics competition was held at the Orange High School in NJ.
There were competitors from Canada, Massachusetts, NY and NJ. View the news video from NY-1. |
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First Place/RoboRescue: Pi-squared The team consists of two team members, Andrew Amerman, and Salil Pathare; both share captain role of the team. They are both 7th graders. |
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RoboDance Awards: The Best Programming Award: The Lunatics Assassin Droids - Tanay Trivedi/Gr.-8/Bridgewater and Elvin Kong/Gr.-8/Whitehouse Station The Most Innovative Award: Stitch - Brenna Herrity/Br.-6/Yardville, Colleen McConnell/Gr.-5/Skillman, Val Post/Gr.6/Basking Ridge
RoboRescue B: The SR-chitect -
There is no division of secondary and primary levels in this game. Therefore, they were competing against with high schoolers. SR-chitect was the only non-high school team in this competition. Their performance was truly awesome. They use left-wall following rule with P.I.D. algorithms with two Electro-proximity Optical Detection sensors. Being able to complete the whole maze with only a couple of glitches! Ability to successfully negotiate all turns in the maze is the most difficult task. Not a single team were able to negotiate all paths either. However, due to the mislocation of the thermal sensor, they failed to recorgnize the victims. As a result of that, they scored less than one of the high school teams. At the second round, negotiating the paths was less successful than the first round due to their last minute attempt to relocate the thermal sensor. But then, their bot recognized all victims! Click here to view our project snapshot. RoboSoccer: The Great White Shark Our Great White Shark team consists of 4 members, Ben Brown/Gr.-10/Warren, Matthew Goldman (captain)/Gr.-11/Bedminster, Avery Katko (captain)/Gr.-11/Long Valley, and Morgan Van-Blarcum/Gr.-10/Vorhee. They created programs with intricate, but effective program algorithms, as well as a robust and innovative holonomic drive system. Great White Shark lost to a couple of opponent teams which used a system with much more powerful motors system,16x stronger than what we used. However, their software
architecture design is truly superb. The team will complete a technical paper about
their work and submit to the technical committee like the
ACM for review.
RoboRescue A: The Electric Brain This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway. They all are 1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has achieved tremendous amount of work.This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway. They all are 1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has achieved tremendous amount of work. Mentor: Matthew Goldman/Technical mentor for Teams Droidchitect and The Lunatics Assassin Droids. Head Coach for all: Elizabeth Mabrey |
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2010 FLL
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The Event was held on Dec 11th at the Mount Olive High School. RoboBrain (most rookies) won the Third Place in the Project Challenge, and gained high score 315 out of 400, 30 points shy from the First Place won by the Plainsboro Team, ranked the 8th out of 45 participating teams. |
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Mentor: Matthew Goldman/Technical mentor, and Vikas Agarwal as Home Coach.
Matthew Goldman, age 17, has been our roboclub member since 2005.
Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey |
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*** The Best Mentor Award at the Regional ***
Letter from the R2D2 Team
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Mentors & Home Coaches: Each Team has it's own parent coach to coodinate external meetings in additional to technical meetings at Storming Robots. The technical mentors are Matthew Goldman (age 17) and Avery Katko (age 17) Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey is the head coach for all teams. We have 5 teams participating this year because of the very interesting science topics in Biomedical Engineering. |
| R2D2 : Kelvin C., Benjamin L., Justin W., Dennis W., Sean T. (visit R2D2 site) |
| RoboBrain: Sunny A., Sahaj G., Akash K., Rohan N. |
| CheezWiz : Derek G., Vadym G., Salil P. ,Matthew S. |
| GhostTeam 10.0 : Andrew A., Aum C., Uday S. |
| Pie3 : Jonathon H., Kushal P., Bhavik S. |
2010 RCJ
Third Place in the Robo-Rescue! ***
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The First Place: Omega Kapa Omega Michael X., Sunny A.and David H. |
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Turtles Akash K., Dhevin G., and Stephen T. |
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The First Place:To The M.A.K.S.- Michelle L., Ashley Y., and Katherine A. |
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| Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey is the head coach for all teams. Mentors: Matthew Goldman (age 16). | |
| We have 12 teams this year. 10 Rescue teams and 2 Soccer teams.
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| The Flyer Windex -Brian, Brady, Doug | Team Scuba - Aum,Uday,Andrew |
| Apollo - Rachel,Seneca,Eric | ImaginaryNumbers - Nikhil S., Rohan, Andre |
| Omega - Michael X,Sunny, David H. | To The M.A.K.S. - Michelle, Ashley, Casey(Katherine) |
| N.E.R.D.S - Elvin,Tanay | Peanut Butter Jelly Time - Luke, Aaditya |
| The Symmetrical Turtles - Akash, Stephen, Dhevin | Pi^3 - Roshun, Salil, Sam |
| The League of Super Evils - Oliver, Marc, Catherine |
The Greater White Shark - Matthew,Avery,Morgan, Ben |
Special Remarks:
A lot of thanks to Matthew Goldman who taught both the Symmetrical Turtles and the Pi^3, while he himself is also one of the main developer of the awesome (complex) robosoccer game. He is currently attending 10th Grade at the Bernardsville High School.
There are simply too many impressive and inspiring stories to be covered here to tell how much effort and wonderful work these children have contributed and gained from this year experience. Bravo! Everyone!
Recognition Letter from Congressmen
Letter addressed to one of our team members Rachel Goldman.
2009 RCJ
Third Places in the Robo-Rescue! ***
*** 2nd Place in the RoboSoccer Event! ***
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| Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams. | |||
| Stormbotics | Matthew Goldman, Avery Katko, Marc Bruggemann, Oliver Katz | The League of Super Evil | Oliver Katz, David DeKime, Catherine Dai, |
| JustThisCool | Michael Cannizzaro, Morgan Van Blacrum, Nikhil Shah | RoboDragon | Rachel Goldman, Michael Xie, Sunny Aggarwal |
| Team With No Name | Andre Gou, Ben Brown, Nikhil Kapadia | RoboRevolution | David Hua, Aum Chatterjee, Akash Kumar |
| The Intripeds | Tanay Trivedi, Benjamin Wechter, Luke Dai, | BeatU | Andrew Amerman, Eric Ward, Uday Shankar, Brain Breslow, |
| The PopTarts | Douglas Rynar, Colin Reese, Brady Bean | ||
2009 World RCJ
Representing the United States in the RoboCupJunior division of the competition were Andrew Amerman, Sunny Agarwal, Rachel Goldman, Uday Shankar, Michael Xie, and Eric Ward. They competed against other young students their age from over 30 different countries including China, Japan and Germany. Press Release: Star Ledger article Branchburg's Storming Robots take on the World.2010 World RCJ
Once again, Storming Robots team has won the USA RCJ and is invited to representing the United States at the 2010 World Tournament. Due to the cost and event dates landing during school exam time, parents decide not to attend this World Event at Singapore.ZeroRobotics
This competition is for Grade 9-12 students. This is from the SPHERES-ZERO-Robotics program run by the
MIT and NASA.
SPHERES stands for the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites.
Students write algorithms for the SPHERES satellites to
accomplish tasks relevant to future space missions. The algorithms will
be tested by the SPHERES teams. The best designs will be selected and the teams will
travel to MIT for the final competition to operate the SPHERES satellites on board the ISS.
2011 ZeroRobotics
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Matthew Goldman |
Matthew Sicotte |
Nikhil Shah |
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Won 2011 ISS Final (Jan,2012)
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Along with our allicance teams from the Riverhill High School,
MD, and Rockledge High School, FL, Storming Robots' high school team won the SPHERES Challenge 2011 Championship on
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Read the NJ.com Press Release.
Won its way into the ISS Final(Nov,2011)
This is a 3D Simulation of Satellite Autonomous Control. Our alliance team ranked the 4th out of 18 competitive alliance teams from the United States, and Europe. (That was after an elimination round from a total of 149 teams.)Press Release:
2010 ZeroRobotics
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Avery Katko |
Catherine Dai |
Matthew Goldman |
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Online news.
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Fact sheet about this ZeroRobotics Project
2009 FLL
*** Ranked the 10th out of approx. 50 teams in the State Tournment Event! ***
*** Won the Project Award at the Regional competition! ***
*** Won the Best Mentor Award at Regional ***
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| Working with the team... | The team with a whole group of supportive MOMS! | The Best Coach/Mentor Award | The R2D2 Team |
Coaches: Elizabeth Mabrey (Technical) and Connie Lam (Project).
Storming Robots coached a six-members rookie team of kids aged 9 years old from Livingston area. Despite of being the first time participants, they scored 290 out of 400. This was an impressive score for first-time participants and for such young age.
Team: Kelvin C., Benjamin L., Justin W., Dennis W., Sean T.
The team worked about 6-8 hours per week from September to early November. In the late November, some put in 10-12 hours a week (in additional to regular school hours, homework and many other activities).
Incredible group of MOMS! This would not have been such a successful experience, if it was not because of the untiring support from all the mothers of these children. These Moms did a wonderful job in time management in coordinating additional meetings, organizing project work,etc.
Click here to view the West Essex News Article about R2D2.
2008 RCJ
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In April 2008, there were 26 teams with 6 from Canada, the
rest from NJ/NY. All students have done a wonderful job. We had three teams attended this event.
Brief Recap of our experience on the Event Day:
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2008 FLL
The Green Hawk! |
View our FLL2008 Photos Gallery |
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Team Mentors: Gawain Lau(age 17)/Mentor and Matthew
Goldman(age 14)/Assistant Mentor. They both are Storming Robots'
roboclub members since 2004. Team: The Green Hawk (age 8-11): Sunny Aggarwal, Dennis Brookner, Aum Chatterjee, Rachel Goldman, Akash Kumar, Michael Xie, and Ashley Yang. State Event (Dec,08): We have won the First Place in Teamwork Challenge. Congratulation to the team. At this segment, they were given a secret challenge which was not revealed to anyone but just the team members, not even mentors. They exemplified what a teamwork should be. Regional Event (Nov,08): We were advanced to the State Tournament after being awarded the First Place of the Team Award. Although we did not manage to achieve the highest score, we were the only team managed to perform the two of the three most complex missions with a bi-directional claw. |
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2007 FLL
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Teams: Falcons (age 11-13): Anurag Anjaria, Dennis Brookner, Michael Cannizzaro, Tristan Duenas, Matthew Goldman, and Morgan Van Blarcum. Metallic Short Circuit Machine (age 10-11): Julian Frost, Rachel
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We lost a few weeks of practice due to delivery problems of the fields, and the early time frame for the local event. With the challenge of working with new faces in the teams, and new Mindstorms hardware (NXT instead of RCX), these bright children amazingly managed to get most of the challenges done with only approximately 16-20 hours. 2007 challenge's scoring system is quite complex. We learnt a lot in the process especially in strategic analysis, and teamwork. The MSCM team used RCX. Their bot was equipped with 2 rotation sensors geared up drastically to achieve precision, 1 single rotational degree (from RCX rotation sensor) ~= 1.5mm. Wow! Highlights
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Special appreciation to Tristan's mother, Diane Duena. She has
taken great quality pictures for our teams since 2006.
She also volunteered to burn all the pics onto a CD for each kid in the
Falcons Team (Tristan's team).
Tristan (residence in Princeton area) has been our roboclub member from 2005 to 2008. |
2006 FLL
in the Regional event
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Teams:
Discovery (age 12-14): Mark Bruggemann, Tristan Duenas, Avery Katko, Matthew Goldman, Ryan Sandor, Caleb Shimomura, Phillips Stankus, and James Wittel. Roboteers (age 9): Brady Beans, Dennis Brookner, Harry Keats, Zach Katz, Matthew Schueler BuckyBot (age 9-11): Alexander Ali, Anthony Ali, Rachael Goldman, Andre Gou, Kevin Kober, Jeffrey Kober, Theo Rabke, Alex Sudyn, and Karlin Yeh Highlights The teams consisted of children from diversed areas, from Livingston (50 min. North of the center) to Princeton (50 min. South of the center). Thus, we managed to get together to work on this for less than 30 hours before the event, while minimum 60 hours are recommended. Nevertheless, they all did wonderful job. Roboteers ranked 2nd in the local event. BuckyBot ranked 5th in the local event, and 12th in the state event. Discovery ranked 3rd in the local event, 9th in the state event. There were 50 teams in the state event. |
2005 FLL
50 Registered Teams
View the Teams Pictures...
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FIRST LEGO League
Robotics State Tournament held in the Mt. Olive High School on December 10,
2005. Our team name is “Stormbotics”, and consists of eight children aged from
10 to 14 from different townships and schools including home schools,
private, and public schools. Team - Stormbotics: Eileen Chow, Matthew Goldman, Gawain Lau, Garrick Lau, Andrew Yuen, Johnny Wang, and James Wittel.
Even though this was our first robotics competition, the team ranked the
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| Highlights We all thought one instance happened in the the teamwork presentation session was rather funny: |
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>Judge: "what is your robot's name?".
>Teamsters (looked into each others' eyes and answered with puzzling tone: "... we don't have a name for the robot... it is our robot...". >Judge: "... didn't you kids have fun doing robotics?..." >Teamsters: "uh... we did have a lot of fun building and programming robots....we just did not bother with a name... " |
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