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.

Another EV3 robot

Here is another build using EV3. This week we will the whole body with two motors and two light sensors attached, and should be able to start testing program.

Robot Design

The first robot was almost done! Yeah! Thank you guys for the great teamwork for getting our first robot assembled (except the front light sensors). Starting from next meeting, we will be able to start programming and developing strategies. Bruce's tank wheels look pretty cool. This design will win the last mission for sure. Please keep it.

FLL 2013 Kick-off

We had a successful kick-off meeting on Sunday, November 3rd. We are glad to see Bill to join our team as an assistant coach. Here is a quick re-cap:

We are going to attend the BC Qualifier tournament on January 4th in Vancouver. If we are qualified, we will win a slot in the next level tournament which is a Semi-Final, from the three Washington State Semi Finals. About 45-50 teams will move on ultimately to the Washington State FLL Championship. I guess all the semi-final and final will happen in Seattle, WA.

We have only 9 weeks to complete all three parts: Projects, Robert Design, and Robert Game. The schedule is a bit tight.

EV3 and the field setup kit arrived!

EV3 and the field setup kit arrived! Let the fun begin!

Super Ninja Bunnies on The Gazette

Super Ninja Bunnies is now on The Gazette. Check this out:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Super+Ninja+Bunnies+team+members/8069753/story.html

Super Ninja Bunnies team members

Winners: From left, Super Ninja Bunnies team members Johnny Wei, Bruce Yan, Tianhao Xu and Oscar Shi of Burnaby, with trophies from the FIRST LEGO League contest at BCIT.

Global Innovation Award – Finalists Announced!

Global Innovation Award – Finalists Announced!
The judges have conferred and concurred and ultimately concluded that the three Finalists of the 2013 FLL Global Innovation Award (in no particular order) are…

**Lucky is our Dog, Columbus, OH, United States, THE BUDDY

**NeXT GEN, Oakland, MD, United States, GRAMMA-JAMMA

**Rockford Christian Royal Narwhals, Rockford, IL, United States, THE MPA: MAGNETIC PLUG ADAPTOR

Thank you to all teams who participated in this year’s FLL Global Innovation Award. Be sure to checkhttp://fllinnovation.firstlegoleague.org often to learn more about the teams, their ideas, and find out how you can enter your 2014 NATURE’S FURY Project idea next season!

BC Local News - Lego robotics earn trophies for SD43 students

Check out our great story at BC Local News.

The SNB Team Logo

This is our new version of the SNB team logo. Click to download the SNB Team Logo.

FLL Global Innovation Voting Results

The SNB team has received 423 votes. The three finalist teams will be contacted by phone in early April. Public announcement of the finalists will be made after all three finalist teams are notified. The one winning team and two runners-up will be named at the awards ceremony on June 18, 2013.

Our Story on Burnaby Now - LEGO whiz kids

We are on Burnaby Now. Check it out.

FLL 2012 Senior Solutions 490 points - BC Championship

Super Ninja Bunnies, the winner of the FLL 2012 Senior Solutions robot performance award at the British Columbia provincial championship. This is their best run: Round 4. They scored 490 points out of a maximum of 580 (if they got a strike on bowling).

Here is their program sequence: 

Run 1: TV, yellow quilts, blue quilts, dog - possible 130 points, scored 110

Run 2: Cardio, bowling, TV, shopping bags - possible 125 points, scored 55

Run 3: Similarity, ball game, gardening, stove, chair - possible 230 points, scored 230

Run 4: Cardio, strength, transition - possible 95 points, scored 95

Totally the team scored 490!

Here is the Youtube video captured by BCIT: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKHtak4NA5M&feature=share&list=PLH1gH0v9E3rvDwcY7yqLCDQFMxXTH7TKd

FIRST Lego League BC Championships live - Senoir Solutions

The FIRST Lego League is an international competition for students from age 9 to 14. This year's theme was "Senior Solutions". Each year, BCIT hosts the FIRST Lego League BC championships.

You can watch the entire show, starting from this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jgd79mvts0&feature=share&list=PLH1gH0v9E3rvDwcY7yqLCDQFMxXTH7TKd

Download the NXT master sequencer program

Our NXT master sequencer program is now available for download. There is a book "Winning Design!: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition" which really helped us writing our team's first sequencer.

Click this link to Download the NXT master sequencer program.

Team Tip from SNB - Use Stickers as Giveaways

This year is our rookie year. We didn't have a good idea how much we would spend so we had to control the cost. We wanted to give out some small items at the regional championship tournament. Buttons seem to be the tradition. Most of the giveaways seem to be buttons. After the study, the decision was made that we use stickers which is even cheaper. We bought a pack of Avery Sticker Project Paper White at Staples, designed the grahics by using Adobe Photoshop, printed them by using a HP deskjet color printer. We used them at the regional championship tournament. Kids gave them out and everyone loved them.

Click here to download the SNB team sticker.

SNB submitted Smartcane for the FLL Global Innovation Award

SNB submitted Smartcane for the FLL Global Innovation Award on http://fllinnovation.firstlegoleague.org. So far the team has received 423 votes. The three finalist teams will be contacted by phone in early April. Public announcement of the finalists will be made after all three finalist teams are notified. The one winning team and two runners-up will be named at the awards ceremony on June 18, 2013.

The Tri-City News - Lego robotics earn trophies for SD43 students

Check out this great story in The Tri-City News!

The BC Championship results can be found at there:

http://bcrobotics.wordpress.com/b-c-championship-event-burnaby-b-c

B.C. Championship Event – BCIT, Burnaby B.C.

Hello Everyone,

The results from the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) – B.C. Regional Championship Tournament 2012/2013

Team 2641 – Prime Bot – Champion’s Award (First Place)

Team 9753 – Super Ninja Bunnies – Champion’s Award (Second Place)

Team 9753 – Super Ninja Bunnies – Robot Competition Winners (Robot Performance)

Team 2641 – Prime Bot – Mechanical Design

Team 968 – NEXT – Programming

Team 9753 – Super Ninja Bunnies – Strategy & Innovation

Team 2492 – The Hurricanes – Research

Team 2724 – White Rock Stars – Innovative Solution

Team 15036 – Band Of Brothers – Presentation

Team 13978 – The ‘G’ Gnomes – Inspiration

Team 3787 – INFINITY – Teamwork

Team 3475 – Memory Searchers – Gracious Professionalism

From BCIT – Media Relation office – Videos of the event can be found here:

All your efforts were greatly appreciated and from our perspective in Media Relations at BCIT the event did garner solid media coverage.  This is a very visual event and coverage was positive.

Total exposure of all media (print excluded as not yet published):

Total audience: 1,255,000 people nationally

Links to TV and radio coverage here

Coverage included CTV local and CTV national, GlobalBC, CBC, CKNW, Burnaby Now, Burnaby Newsleader, the World Journal, and The Official Chinese News Agency, Xinhua News. Two stories will also be published later this week in Burnaby’s two local papers.

Still photos from FLL at BCIT link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcit/sets/72157632647400740/

Feel free to share or download these and use as needed with credit to BCIT please.

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Date: January 26, 2013
Location: BCIT – Burnaby Campus
Address: 3700 Willingdon Ave (Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Z2NLK)
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm

Contact Person: Brian Yu (FLL-BC@telus.net)

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Important Information Update (Jan 20)

Food Services Packages – is no longer offered by the tournament.  Please purchase food directly from the other food services venues within BCIT.

Practice Tables - there will be ‘No’ practice tables available for teams.  All teams will be provided a table to use in the main gym.  Gym access will be available starting at 10:00am.  Teams wishing to bring their field kits and parts may do so, and will be permitted to set up on the gym floor within your table space area.

Robot Competition - each team will be given 4 opportunities at the Robot Competition tables in the main gym.  Only the highest score will be counted.

Project Presentation and Judging Sessions - All Teams are encouraged to be well prepared for their presentation sessions.  Each team should bring copies of their Team Info sheet with them to all three sessions.  There will be no feed-back given at tournament.  Each team will have exactly 10 to 12 minutes to enter the presentation room, setup, complete their presentations and exit the room.

Please Supervise your team and young children at all times – there will not be children care services available at this tournament.  Please supervise your children accordingly.

Team Number - your team number is the official designation for your team.  Your team members will be asked repeatedly throughout the tournament for their team number.  it is critical that they know their number as their scores and results are tallied based on this number.  Official rankings and scores will be forwarded to FIRST Robotics based on the team’s official team number.

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Documents that you need:

BCIT Map: (SoE-visitors map)

Parking

Step 1 – Drop Off  - Parking Lot V5

Step 2 – Check In at Building Sw9 – Pick Up your parking pass

Step 3 – Park your car at: P7

FLL – Permission Forms (SENIOR SOLUTIONS CONSENT AND RELEASE FORM – ENGLISH)

Team Info Sheet (TeamInfoSheet)

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Live Broadcast/Video Streaming

This year, the B.C. Championship will be video streamed ‘live’ via the internet at the following address: http://www.bcit-broadcast.com/live/

This service is being provided by students from the Broadcast Communication Program of BCIT.  Live interviews will also be conducted by the broadcast students as well as the local media.

Taran Van Hemert is the producer and host for the televised portion of the FLL BC provincial championships.  Interviews will be conducted during the event on the 26th, with a wide variety of people, such as coaches, volunteers, team members, parents of team members, engineers, judges, and so on. All teams will have the opportunity to be interviewed by the broadcast students.  Anyone/teams interested in being interviewed should contact Taran Van Hemert (taranvanhemert@gmail.com) to make arrangements.  Teams not wishing to be on camera due to privacy concerns should opt out of the interview.  Please also contact Taran to make arrangement to minimize camera exposure.

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Accommodation: Accent Inn – Burnaby (http://www.accentinns.com/burnaby)
Shuttle(s) will be provided to travel to/from BCIT.

Rooms are reserved for BCIT FIRST LEGO League Robotics

        Group # 25882

Arriving: Jan 25, 2013

Departing: Jan 26, 2013

Rate: $89 plus tax – standard guest rooms with 1 king bed or 2 queen beds

Up to 4 people per room. First come first serve.

For reservations, please call Accent Inns Central Reservations @ 1-800-663-0298 and quote group 25882

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Parking Passes:

Each team will be given two (2) free parking pass.  Additional parking tickets will have to be purchased via the parking lot vending machines or at our check in table.

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For Division A competitors:

Judging will begin at 8:30am for most teams.  Please be on time for your judging sessions.

This is what the day will look like:

• 8:30am to 11:30am Judging Sessions (Core Value, Robot Design, and Project Presentations)
• 11:30am to 12:30pm Lunch, and Jr.FLL Presentations
• 12:30pm to 1:00pm Opening Ceremony
• 1:00pm to 3:30pm Robot Competition
• 3:30pm to 4:00pm Awards Presentation
• 4:30pm Cleanup and Departure

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Judging Schedule – Signup

Judging	Core Value		Robot Design		Project Presentation
8:30 am
8:45 am	3475		13978		15036
9:00 am		2724			3787	2641
9:15 am	13978	9753		3475
9:30 am	5480	15036	2492	3787	968	4913
9:45 am	15457		2724
10:00 am		9180	968	4913	3475	5480
10:15 am	2492	2641	15457	9180	9753	2724
10:30 pm	968	4913	15036	5480	13978	15457
10:45 pm	3787		2641	9753	9180	2492

The results of the FLL Qualifier for Vancouver Island can be found at here:

http://bcrobotics.wordpress.com/qualifier-event-schedule-vancouver-island

Qualifier Event – Vancouver Island

Hello Everyone,

I hope everyone is well. At this time, I like to announce the teams going on to Division A – B.C. Championship in January. I have tallied all of the results from judging and the robot game, I have also weighted all of the responses from all the judges and referees and have ranked the teams in the following order:

1 492

2 15036

3 13978

4,5 5480, 4317

6 13385

7 9180

8 15457

Congratulations to all the teams that participated. I will be sending out a survey in the next week as well as opening the registration for the championship. Any teams that did not make the top 8 teams are also invited to participate in the January Championship as Division B Teams.

Please be advised that upon the completion of this qualifier tournament and the publishing of the results, all notes and judgment documentations will be shredded to protect the professional integrity of the judges and referees. This was explicitly requested by the judges and supported by the FIRST LEGO League. In the past, I had sent out the tallied results against policy because I believe in letting the children know how/where they did well and where they did poorly, however in this case, I am unable to accommodate.

To solve the problem, I can provide a judge to evaluate their presentations during the next scrimmage in January to offer verbal feedback and suggestions. This will allow the children ample time to redo their presentations for the Championship in late January.

See you all in January.

Brian Yu
FIRST LEGO League – B.C.
Text Message (778) 990-3623

http://bcrobotics.wordpress.com/

FLL-BC@telus.net

FIRST LEGO League Team Listing for the 2012/2013 season can be found at here:

http://bcrobotics.wordpress.com/first-lego-league-team-listing

FIRST LEGO League Team Listing

Updated: October 2, 2012 Please contact Brian Yu if your team is not listed: FLL-BC@telus.net

Lower Mainland Teams:

Team #	Name	Location
968	NeXT	Vancouver BC
1111	Upper Lynn Elementary	North Vancouver BC
2641	ALT	Vancouver BC
2724	Jeffery	White Rock BC
3475	RoboSearchers	Burnaby BC
3528	ERCC	Coquitlam BC
3787	Samuel	Richmond BC
4200	Ivy Bots	Vancouver BC
4326	Jambotics	West Vancouver BC
4913	Lego4Fun	Burnaby BC
6036	Jr Hawks	Vancouver BC
6039	Sparrows	Vancouver BC
7544	The Technicians	Coquitlam BC
7592	CSS	Clearwater BC
7849	Discovery	Vancouver BC
8724	Nechako Lakes 1	Vanderhoof BC
9753	Super Ninja Bunnies	Burnaby BC

Vancovuer Island Teams:

2492	The Hurricanes	Victoria BC
4317	Lego Stormers	Victoria BC
4708	Mountain	Nanaimo BC
5480	Legobotics	Victoria BC
9180	AGMS	Victoria BC
10984	Campus View Elementary	Victoria BC
13385	SuperMindstormers	Victoria BC
13978	Bio Logic	Victoria BC
15036	Band of Brothers	Parksville BC
15457	CORE First Lego League	Victoria BC
15840	CCCS 1	Victoria BC
15875	CCCS 2	Victoria BC
16120	Lakehill Elementary	Victoria BC

The 2012 FLL Qualifier results can be found at here:

http://bcrobotics.wordpress.com/qualifier-event-schedule-lower-mainland

Qualifier Event – Lower Mainland

Hello Everyone,

I hope everyone is well. At this time, I like to announce the teams going on to Division A – B.C. Championship in January. I have tallied all of the results from judging and the robot game, I have also weighted all of the responses from all the judges and referees and have ranked the teams in the following order:

1 - 9753
2 - 2724
3 - 3787
4 - 2641
5 - 968
6 - 4913
7, 8, 9 – 3475, 3528, 7544

Because of the 3 way tie for position 7, 8, 9, I am going to accept all 9 teams into the championship. However, I strongly encourage the teams in position 7, 8, 9 to consider joining Division B, as the championship will be quite tough.

Congratulations to all the teams that participated. I will be sending out a survey in the next week as well as opening the registration for the championship.

Please be advised that upon completion of this qualifier tournament and the publishing of the results, all notes and judgment documentations will be shredded to protect the professional integrity of the judges and referees.

See you all in January.

Brian Yu
FIRST LEGO League – B.C.
Text Message (778) 990-3623

http://bcrobotics.wordpress.com/

FLL-BC@telus.net

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This is what the day will look like:

9:00am to 11:30am Judging Sessions (Core Value, Robot Design, and Project Presentations)
11:30am to 12:30pm Lunch, and Jr.FLL Presentations
12:30pm to 1:00pm Opening Ceremony
1:00pm to 3:00pm Robot Competition
3:30pm to 4:00pm Awards Presentation
4:30pm Cleanup and Departure

Judging Schedule – Signup

Judging	Core Value	Robot Design	Project Presentation
9:00 am	Team #2641	Team #3784	Team #7849
9:20 am	Team #4913	Team #3528	Team #968
9:40 am	Team #7849	Team #2641	Team #3784
10:00 am	Team #3528	Team #4913	Team #9753
10:20 am	Team #968	Team #2724	Team #3475
10:40 am	Team #9753	Team #7544	Team #2641
11:00 am	Team #3784	Team #3475	Team #4913
Lunch
12:40 pm	Team #2724	Team #7849	Team #7544
1:00 pm	Team #3475	Team #968	Team #3528
1:20 pm	Team #7544	Team #9753	Team #2724

For those competing in division A, please have a close look at the Judging Schedule.  I am asking each team to sign up for their time slot.  I have staggered the spaces according to the time limit and spacing requirement set by the FIRST LEGO League.

Each team in division A is asked to choose a judging order and submit your request (Your selection number, your registered team number, and your team name) by email to: fll-bc@telus.net

For example: if your team chooses #3, this would mean:

Your Core Value judging is at: 9:40 am

Your Robot Design judging is at: 12:40 pm

Your Project Presentation is at: 9:00 am

This method will allow teams that needs to travel from afar a later start time, while giving other teams a chance to start and finish the judging component early.  Please email Brian Yu should you have any question(s): fll-bc@telus.net

Thank You.

Please vote for us

Please forward this email to your family, your friends, and your classmates, and let them vote for us.

We are the team of Super Ninja Bunnies, a FIRST LEGO league team from the Vancouver BC area. The year 2012 is our first year participating in the FLL challenge. At the qualifying competition, we won the Core Values Award and the Robot Performance Award. At the FIRST LEGO League British Columbia Championship Tournament 2012/2013, we won the Robot Design Award, the Robot Performance Award, and the Champion's 2nd Place Award.

To support us, please vote for us in the FLL Global Innovation Competition.

Step 1: go to this web page at http://fllinnovation.firstlegoleague.org/smartcane-0

Sep 2: Answer the "Vote this innovation" question, then click the red Vote button.

Thank you,

The SNB Team