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Re: FIRST Lego Leage competition at MSI Chicago
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Sun, 5 Dec 1999 00:57:45 GMT
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FIRST appears to be an excellent program from what I've seen. I'd sure
like to see the kids in action instead of just photos of their robot
competitions.
Parallax (the makers of the BASIC Stamp) have recently started providing
support for FIRST. See their page at:
http://www.stampsinclass.com/
Have fun,
- Nick -
Tim Courtney wrote:
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> I just returned from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago where they
> held the Illinois state FIRST Lego League Mindstorms competition. FIRST is an
> organization that uses Lego Mindstorms to help prommote kids pursuing careers
> in engineering (http://www.usfirst.org). They attended MIT Mindfest as well.
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> There were well over 50 teams participating, each created a robot that placed
> ping pong balls in a bin and knocked a post to make a couple Lego astronauts
> fall. I shot about 2 rolls of film on the robot competition and the teams of
> kids with their robots, I'll post them when I get them developed.
>
> I talked to the technology coordinator for FIRST at the event (pretty much one
> of the guys in charge there) about promoting LDraw for use with their
> contests. He sounded interested and will look into the program to see if they
> can inform the teams about it and how it will work with Autodesk and TLG, who
> sponsor them. If it works out, thousands of kids who work with Mindstorms
> will be indroduced to LDraw as a way of documenting and sharing Lego model
> ideas and introduced to the online Lego community as well.
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> Aside from that, John VanZwieten met me there with his family and we had fun
> talking about Lego stuff and watching the competition.
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> I'm thinking about working with a FIRST team for the kids or joining a high
> school level team - overall I was impressed with the compeition and the
> organization! Next week there's one of these events for Ohio just south of
> the Kentucky border, I don't have details on that event though. But
> DEFINITELY worthwhile to attend.
>
> -Tim Courtney
> ldraw.org Project Coordinator
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> http://www.ldraw.org
> http://www.zacktron.com
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> AIM: timcourtne
> ICQ: 23951114
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| Be advised that there are two competitions sponsored by FIRST. One has been going on for a few years, called the "FIRST Robotics Competition" The other, new this year is FIRST LEGO League. The latter, which is what the original post is about, is (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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