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Tournament Award Winner List

Champion’s Trophy First Place: The ‘Hull’ of Famers Team 7627 of Rome/Holland Patent

Champion’s Trophy Second Place: Atlas Robotics Team 290 of Utica

Robot Game Highest Score: Albany Magnet School Gatorbots Team 9466 of Utica

Robot Programming: Cyber-Knightz Team 3702 of Tully

Robot Strategy & Innovation: Mindstorm Magician’s Team 277 of Rome

Robot Mechanical Design: Albany Magnet School Gatorbots Team 9466 of Utica

Core Values Inspiration: Gears in Motion Team 5990 of Ballston Spa

Core Values Teamwork: I.C. Eagles Team 13615 of Fayetteville

Core Values Gracious Professionalism: Redhawk Robots Team 460 of Central Square

Project Research: Fayetteville Y-Knots Team 7194 of Fayetteville

Project Innovative Solution: Milky Way (Holy Cross Academy) Team 6089 of Oneida

Project Presentation:  CBA The Brothers Team 12623 of Syracuse 

Judges’ Award: Sharp Spoons Team 3700 of Tully

 

Our two Champion’s Award winners, The *Hull* of Famers and Atlas Robotics will be nominated to attend the FLL US Open Championships, to be held in Florida and California in Spring 2012.

 

FLL@SUNYIT Regional Championship Tournament:
Saturday, December 3, 2011

TOO MUCH FUN!

You kids were so awesome!

SUNYIT is very proud to have hosted such a talented, positive and curious bunch of budding scientists and engineers in our beautiful new Wildcat Field House!

To your coaches, friends and families: thank you for joining us to celebrate the effort and enthusiasm of the participating teams.

Their efforts, attitude, ideas and performances truly excited the judges and referees.

Check out the opportunities to submit your research project ideas to FIRST via the Global Innovation Award site:

http://fllinnovationaward.firstlegoleague.org/about-global-innovation-award

 

THANKS TO OUR AMAZING VOLUNTEERS

SUNYIT Faculty, staff, and students

HIgh school honor society students from Holland Patent and New York Mills

CNY FIRST committee

Community engineers and educators

Donor organizations: A&P Master Images, Twin Orchards, Chobani, and Price Chopper

Sponsors: BAE Systems, Time Warner Cable - Connect a Million Minds, HiTechnic, Trenton Technology, Carbone Auto Group, Lockheed Martin, Black River Systems, Gilroy, Kernan and Glroy

The Office of Continuing Professional Education/Sponsored Research put their other work aside to focus on FLL@SUNYIT with goodwill and the essence of gracious professionalism - Sue Kimak, Fran Connors, Ann Rushlo and Deborah Tyksinski

We were lucky to have the assistance of students in Bob Payne's MTC/ITC 327 class in designing the use of the new field house - plus they all showed up to volunteer!

On-campus clubs provided manpower all day - BLASU. IEEE, Delta Omega Epsilon, Asian Club, Wildcat Media, and volunteers from MVILR

... and a special ShoutOut to folks at SUNYIT's Facilities Department, who assisted with everything from mechanhical and electrical setup, to takedown and cleanup:

Matt Putnam and Mike Durr, and their crews

 

SO, We Loved FLL@SUNYIT - what's next? Two websites to watch are -

http://www.sunyit.edu/mvtech-showcase for information about the March 8, 2012 Showcase at SUNYIT, where we will conduct FLL-style robot games - details to be posted later in December 2011

http://www.sunyit.edu/cpe_k_12/fll/riot for information about the May 19, 2012 Robot Riot, where SUMO Robots and an innovative robot challenge will be hosted - details to be posted in February 2012

http://facebook.com/cnyfirst - Thanks Lisa! - will also contain updated information about various opportunities for LEGO Mindstorms-based fun.

 

Information below is dated and left for reference:

We're in the NEW SUNYIT Athletic Center/Wildcat Field House (campus map)

Schedule:

7:30AM Doors Open for FLL Team and Volunteer Registration

8:00AM Team, Coach, and Judge meetings

8:30AM Morning judging sessions in Core Values, Project Presentation, and Robot Design begin

11:30AM Jr FLL registration

12:30PM FLL/Jr FLL Opening Ceremony

1:00PM Robot Games begin

2:00PM Jr FLL Expo

2:45PM Jr FLL Recognition Ceremony

4:00PM Robot Games conclude

4:30PM FLL Recognition and Closing Ceremony

There will be food available.

Any questions or concerns, please contact fll@sunyit.edu

 

Championship Tournament Volunteering

Are you an eager volunteer in  search of a community service learning opportunity? Please get in touch! 

More info at:   fll@sunyit.edu or 315-792-7383

 

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New to FIRST and FLL?

Visit http://usfirst.org or http://firstlegoleague.org

 

to learn about this fantastic, kid-driven, 'sport of the mind' for children ages 9-14.

FLL@SUNYIT is competitive.

Teams of kids combine Lego structures, motors, sensors and processors with user-friendly software to design, build, and program autonomous robots.

Teams are composed of 3-10 kids and a coach; the team uses the LEGO Mindstorms system to construct the robot.

A tournament consists of:

* Project Presentations *Teamwork - Core Values - Judging

 *Technical Judging *Robot Game

Participants receive a medal.  Some trophies are also given.

See the link below for some great pictures from the 2010 FLL@SUNYIT Championship Tournament!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FLL-Teams-Utica-Region/148494035165419?v=photos

  (Click on the All Photos option and look for the December 2010 event.)

Many many thanks to Lisa Payne for hosting and maintaining this Facebook presence for CNY FIRST,
and to Jonathan Jenkins for the outstanding photography. See his work at: www.frozentimephotography.net

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WE'VE CREATED A 6 MINUTE COMPILATION VIDEO OF THE DECEMBER 5, 2009 FLL QUALIFIER TOURNAMENT AT SUNYIT - LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

 

Need more information? Contact us at: fll@sunyit.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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