Last weekend, Team Dave held our annual FLL competition at St. David CSS. Through the generous sponsorship of Kik and Brick Works Academy, our event was an incredible success.

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Early on the Saturday morning, 11 FIRST Lego League teams from the nearby area made their way to the event. The pits quickly filled up and Lego robots and activity as teams worked on building and programming their robots, practicing their projects, and showing Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition.

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The matches began with many high scoring teams and their robots. The highest score during the event was 250 from Cobra 967. Teams competed against each other, and showed good sportsmanship towards each other. In addition to normal competition activities, Team Dave also proposed a “Selfie” Challenge, in which teams had to go around to various judges, referees, volunteers, and Team Dave’s robot and take a Selfie with them.

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At lunch time, Team Dave ran a FRC robot demo to demonstrate the next level of FIRST to the FLL students and their parents. The kids and parents were very impressed and interested in the robot’s performance and had a lot of fun driving it. We were also fortunate to have Makeshift Robotics 4039 come to our competition as well and drive their robot in the FRC demo as well.

Overall, the tournament was a great success, made possible by the support of multiple volunteers, judges, referees, Kik, Brick Works Academy, and Makeshift Robotics. Thank you to all those who helped and attended the event. Congratulations to all the teams who attended, and good luck to 967 Cobra and 8728 Bricks ‘n’ Bots in the coming competition at the University of Waterloo next year.

With the summer slowly coming to an end, Team Dave is getting ready for another school year. This summer has been phenomenal for our team. We had the chance to compete at the Indiana Robotics Invitational in July. We have had some amazing outreach experiences this year, in addition to showcasing out robot to our amazing sponsors. This summer we were fortunate to be a part of Discovery Square at the Kitchener City Hall every Tuesday in July as well as hosting our inaugural Lego Robotics Camp at the end of July.

Discovery Square – Every Tuesday in July

For the past couple years, the City of Kitchener has held Discovery Square at Kitchener City hall every Tuesday in July. This event features hands-on activities and demonstrations for children 5 – 12 focusing on science, technology, engineering, art and math and is hosted by popular children’s entertainer, Erick Traplin. We had the amazing opportunity to showcase our knowledge of STEM, and our robot to the community for the second year.

Lego Robotics Camp – July 28 to August 1

Team Dave held its inaugural Lego Robotics Camp during the week of July 28 – August 1, 2014.

38 children between the ages of 5 and 12 were split into 3 groups: Lego Builders for the little ones, lego WeDo for Grade 1-3 and Lego NXT for the older group.

During the camp all 3 groups built robots and some programmed them to perform tasks and missions.

The children were also introduced to some safe science experiments by the 14 leaders, who all call Team Dave from St. David CSS in Waterloo, their home.

During the week, 1 Lego Builder and 2 Lego Wedo members graduated into the next levels, which was a tribute to our successful Lego Robotics Camp.

Beside the serious building and programming, the campers also did some crafts which were usually all related somehow to robotics. For instance, they built robots out of cardboard and made bristlebots out of toothbrushes.

At the end of the week, children were able to showcase their new acquired skills to their parents, family and friends. The highlight for Team Dave was the ability to show their 2014 FRC robot and inspire the future young engineers to join the FIRST programs in our region.

Sponsor Demo

To thank our sponsors for their amazing support in this year, we showcased our robot at their companies, letting their employees take a turn at driving the robot. It was a blast showing the sponsors what their support was able to do for us. We could not be more grateful for the support they have shown during amazing year for Team Dave.

Category: Outreach

Team Dave Annual FLL Competition

2014 Summer Outreach

Discovery Square – Every Tuesday in July

Lego Robotics Camp – July 28 to August 1

Sponsor Demo