Dear Parents and Students,
Welcome to the 2007 FIRST LEGO LEAGUE Challenge.
Our challenge this year is to explore alternative energy sources. Participation
on this team requires a willingness to work together as a team, respect
each others ideas, showing gracious professionalism to our team mates and
competitors.
FIRST LEGO LEAGUE competitions are not all about
winning, it's about teaching our students the value of teamwork, learning
about the problems facing the world around us and searching for solutions
to solve some of these problems, and our biggest goal is to have FUN while
we learn, but like any other team, we want to excel in our sport.
For more information please log on to: www.firstlegoleague.org
(United States) and netapps.marshall.edu/lego
(2007-2008 year). Teams will be judged on - The Robotics Competition
(14 tasks in 2 1/2 minutes), The Research Project ( 5 min. presentation
on challenge topic), TEAMWORK (how well we work together as a team), Robot
Design, Programming, & Gracious Professionalism.
The tournament season is September to December.
All team members will meet every Saturday at the Morrow library at Marshall.
(Additional practices may be needed closer to the tournament). We will
have a local tournament on December 8, 2007 at Marshall University and
a State tournament in Wheeling, WV on December 15, 2007.
Parents will be required to transport their child
to the Morrow Library on Saturdays for practices and to Wheeling for the
state tournament. Some people go up the day before on Friday, as the tournament
starts at 8:00 am on Saturday. The League reserves a block of rooms at
a nearby hotel and it usually costs $75-80 per night. Parent participation
is encouraged, but not required. Each team pays registration fees, buys
robot materials, and field set up. Two teams are started and have a modest
$10 fee.
Adult (Coach) Parent Volunteer is needed.
Questions? Linda Hamilton (Mentor) Marshall University Professor hamilton@marshall.edu
