On Saturday, 7 Neutrinos (and their parents) volunteered at the Science Center of Iowa Regional FLL Tournament for the day. 2 Neutrinos were Refs (that was alot of fun!) and the other 5 helped with the judging process (judges and judges assistants).
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2013 Community Service
We completed our community service project last weekend for the 2013 season in one of our member’s dad’s shop. Our project was to “manufacture” doors for the Story County Extension Office cabinets where our “HQ” is located at. Below is a before and after shot of the cabinets (we have yet to mount them, so there is no after shot yet).
Before:
STEM Town Hall Meeting
The STEM Community Conversation went well yesterday for not being able to physically run the robot much. We ran into many Iowa State University Extension Staff there along with lots of state representatives. We would like to personally thank Iowa State University Extension for inviting us to this exciting event promoting STEM education throughout Iowa.
Team Neutrino attends Cow Town ThrowDown
FIRST Robotics Team Neutrino #3928, a Story County 4-H team, attended the Cow Town Throwdown Robotics off season Invitational November 2nd and 3rd in Kansas City. The team is composed of 4-H’ers from Ames,
Ballard, and Nevada High Schools. Team Neutrino ended up being seeded 37th after dealing with various technical issues they encountered. They were selected by Team #2410, Metal Mustangs from Overland Park, Kansas, to serve on their alliance where they made it into the quarter-finals.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) strives to inspire youth to become leaders in science and technology through engaging mentor-based programs. Team Neutrino competes in FIRST’s Robotics Competitions, which brings youth together with professional mentors and Iowa State University students to build a robot from scratch in order to compete in that year’s game.
Last year, Team Neutrino finished in eighth place out of forty-nine teams at the 2012 FIRST Robotics Midwest Regional in Chicago in March. The team also won a top rookie seed award in its first year of competition.
The team’s next official FIRST challenge begins in January.
FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) is one of the senior high options for students provided by FIRST. FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) is another. Both of these programs can follow after Jr.FLL (Jr. FIRST Lego League) and FLL (FIRST Lego League). See www.usfirst.org for more information on the FIRST organization.
For more information on Team Neutrino please visit www.teamneutrino.org. For more information on the Story County 4-H FIRST Lego League Team, please email mwilkins@iastate.edu.
Cow Town Throwdown
We were a quarterfinalist at cowtown! Thanks to team 2410 for including us in their alliance with teams 1710 & 1802!
Results:
- 6:06pm – Match 2 (Win)
- 6:48pm – Match 9 (Loss)
- 7:48pm – Match 19 (Loss)
- 8:12pm – Match 23 (Loss)
- 8:40am – Match 35 (Loss)
- 9:30am – Match 45 (Win)
- 10:05am – Match 52 (Win)
- 10:20am – Match 55 (Loss)
- 10:55am – Match 62 (Loss)
- Quarter Finals – (Win)
- Quarter Finals – (Loss)
- Quarter Finals – (Loss)