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Re: First LEGO League competition in Cincinnati Ohio
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 20:46:15 GMT
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As a head referee for 3 of these contests this year, and many in the past, I
have to second Jeff's recommendation to volunteer for these. You can find
them on www.legoleague.org .
Better yet, form a team and be a coach for next year. Believe me, these
kids are working on hard problems, some that anyone here would find terribly
difficult, and therefore, worth your time.
--Jack Gregory
"Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@sdrc.com> wrote in message
news:H5zsrG.FJA@lugnet.com...
> I just got back from the First LEGO League competition in Cincinnati Ohio.
> I got a sweet volunteer job there. I got to be the helper for one half of
> the practice table. The table is divided in half and each team gets one
> half. I got to time them (5 minute limit for practice sessions) and then
> reset the table when they were done.
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> This was a cool job because it was easy to do and it was as close as you
> could get to the robots in action (unless you were the judge/referee at • the
> competition table.
>
> Even though the kids were young, they did well. The event was very kid
> oriented. WEBN, a local station, sent a DJ who did some talking (mostly
> they were playing rock and roll at high volumes).
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> This event took over 50 volunteers to make it happen. This was in • addition
> to the volunteers who were on the teams with the kids, helping them for
> weeks and months before the competition. The volunteers even got a • T-Shirt
> to wear for the day that we could take home.
>
> If anyone here has a chance to get involved locally, please do so. The • kids
> were really excited and anything to get kids excited about science,
> engineering, and computer programming is a good thing in my book (speaking
> as an engineer who does nothing but write computer programs for a living).
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