FIRST Lego League Upcoming Events & News
About Us
The FIRST LEGO League (FLL), considered the "little league" of the FIRST Robotics Competition, is the result of a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Group. FLL extends the FIRST concept of inspiring and celebrating science and technology to children aged 9 through 14, using real-world context and hands-on experimentation.
With the help of LEGO® MINDSTORMSTM Robotics Invention SystemTM technology, young participants can build a robot and compete in a friendly, FIRST-style robotics event specially designed for their age group. Using LEGO bricks and other elements such as sensors, motors, and gears, teams gain hands-on experience in engineering and computer programming principles as they construct and program their unique robot inventions.
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We invite you and your team members to the
FIRST LEGO League Kickoff
Saturday, September 23, 2006
9:00 am – 11:30 am
Cimarron-Memorial High School Room 200,
2301 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas, NV 89128
Please RSVP to Marc Rogers rogers@interact.ccsd.net by Wednesday, September 20, 2006.
Include team number, and names of team members attending.
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FIRST LEGO League Kickoff AGENDA
9:00 am – 11:30 am Cimarron-Memorial High School Room 200,
2301 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas, NV 89128
- Welcome - Marc Rogers
- Review tournament requirements – Marc Rogers
- Speaker Dr. Das, UNLV Nano Expert
- Nano Quest Missions
- TOOLS AVAIABLE FOR TEAMS - G. Jean Hoppert
- Introduction to NANO: What is Nanotechnology?
- Nature: The First Nanotechnologist
- Probe Microscopes: Tools used in Nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology Applications (existing, emerging, and futuristic)
- Exercises to demonstrate NANO technology with LEGO pieces
- Micro Probe
- Self Assembly
- Carbon NANO tube chains from LEGOS
- What NXT means to you and programming workshop
- Final Q&A