O-Raft is now in the FLL Global Innovation Award Competition

The SNB team is entering the FLL Global Innovation Award Competition. Our team submission has been uploaded. Please find out our O-Raft invention at the FLL Global Innovation Award website:

http://fllinnovation.firstlegoleague.org/o-raft

There is no online voting this year. Please spread the word among your friends, classmates, your social network. Get family and friends involved, visit our invention web page.

Finalists will be announced in April. If you have any questions, see their FAQ at http://fllinnovation.firstlegoleague.org/faq

Which version of LEGO Mindstorms EV3 should I buy?

Some friends asked us which version of EV3 they should buy for their kids. We recommend the home version of EV3 will meet most of the needs. It will be good enough for kids to learn or for FLL teams to participate the FLL competition. LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is now $349.95 at Amazon. It is a good deal. It is lots of cheaper than the education version.

Please refer to this comparison: http://www.ev-3.net/en/archives/98

In the middle of the page you can see a table with differences: LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 and the home version of LEGO Mindstorms EV3

Run 1 Attachments

Our Run 1 will take care of the north-west area which includes two pets, water and tree branch. Kids have built a few attachments to help accomplish these missions.They still need some improvement but they work very well.

Get to know SNB - Bill

Hi, I’m Bill, the new assistant coach. I’m in high school and 16 years old. I join the SNB FLL team because I like robot and teammate is my friend. I am helping to teach kids programming.

I like computer very much. I can program with java and have developed some application for android. I want to join this team because I want to develop my skill to achieve my goal becoming a software engineer.

I will do my best in my team and get a good score.

Bill

Get to know SNB - James

Hi, I am James. I'm a grade 8 this year and it is also my last year participating in the FLL. I hope to achieve a good title with our team this year on my last year of this robotics competition.

-James

SNB team model

Here you go. This is our team model made by kids last week. They are thinking this model could be a cool decoration added to the robot. We will see.

New team T-shirt design

As we need to print more T-shirts for this year, a new design was just done last week. The team logo is kept with no change.