Dear Parents and Students,
Welcome to the 2009 FIRST LEGO LEAGUE Challenge
Smart Move. 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 see http://usfirst.org
and netapps.marshall.edu/lego (2009-2010
year). Teams will be judged on - The Robotics Competition (many
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; and 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 12, 2009 at Marshall University and
a State tournament in Wheeling, WV on December 19, 2009.
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.
Questions? Linda Hamilton (Mentor)
RTI
hamilton@marshall.edu
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