Programing the First Mission

Here is Josephine, Charlie and Jordan adding attachments to robot and working their problem solving skills

Emil, Marcos and Jackson test their first programmed mission. They are working to come up with solutions to mitigate natural disasters. These are the type of 21 first century skills Lego league helps develop

Tecnical Problems: Working on Robot Wheel Operation and Programming

The Day Before Thanksgiving Break, We Got Some Hansen Family for Helping Out With Programming. 

Here Leon and Victor Discuss the Robot Missions

Jackson, Jordan and Victor Review Programming the Missions

Marcos, Marci and Charlie Work on Robot Attachments

Lego Club Splits in Two Teams: Programming and Engineering

 Teams are working in smaller groups. Here Marci, Marcos and Charlie program the second robot.

Each group has an assignment. Here Jackson, Emil and Alec are building the front axle of the robot.

Here Dr. De La Rue is giving a hand to Jordan and Alec to program their mission.


In the next weeks will have some guest speakers explain some of the challenges of responding to natural disasters - the theme of this years Lego Robotics Competition. A firefighter from AFD and a local MD will visit and help us understand how robotics could protect or help people in need.

There are many type of natural disasters that have been in the news lately, but the students want to focus on forest fires, because they are such a threat here in New Mexico.

New Computers and Finishing the Two Robots

Today we got two new computers for programming and had some help from local Lego Robotics designers Jack Hanson, and Ruben De La Rue,

Here is Jack Hanson, who has been participating in Lego Robotics for many years. His expertise is helping our club design the optimal robot.

HOMECOMING

We still need a few volunteers to host our booth at homecoming. Please email:
arogge@menaulschool.com

Here is our advisor Dr. De La Rue having fun at homecoming!

Girl and Boy Teams Begin Robot Construction

Here Corina and Marcela, from the Lego Robotics Girl Team, are building the a new robot

 Marcos and Alec are busy decoding the assembly instructions for the base of the new robot

Here Jackson, Charlie, Alec, Marcos and Unique are working together separating the parts for the new robot

Volunteers Needed For Homecoming

We need volunteers for Homecoming. Robotics and Lego club are sponsoring a booth to showcase what we are working on and asking for donations for batteries, t-shirts and for competition registration. We need parents and Lego friends to help out. Homecoming is Oct 28th from 11 am to 4 pm. If you could volunteer two hours of your time please contact Mrs. Rogge at: arogge@menaulschool.com

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Today we started on our heavy duty base for the "natural fury" mission robot. The kids also spent their time organizing and building the last steps of our table for our missions.

Cooperation: Students are working together to build the base of the robot

Methodical Problem Solving and Organization Skills Essential to Robotics

 Programming the Robot Requires Methodical Work

Organization Skills - Essential For a Working Robot 

Menaul Middle School Robotics is Back!

The club is meeting after school Tuesdays and Thursdays in Mrs. Rogge's classroom.

Important dates and times will be listed here as early as possible and
we'll post pics of our progress as we prepare for another competition.

This year the FLL competition will be held at Albuquerque Academy.

The theme of this years competition is preparing for - and recovering from - natural disasters. The students are already brainstorming ideas. 

Check out our Robotics table at Homecoming!

Thanks to our advisor Mrs. De La Rue

We need volunteers for our table at Homecoming and much more
throughout the year.  If you can help us out please contact: 
anarogge@menaulschool.com

 29th Place at the Third Annual FLL Competition

Our club had a great learning experience at the New Mexico First Lego League Competition. In our first year, we were 29th out of 43 teams from all over the state. Next year we hope to be even better! Here is the team during the second robot round.

 

Here our team describes our robot design to judges

Dr. De La Rue helps the team program one of the missions

Our team relaxing before competition

Here Unique and Victor align the robot during competition

 Lego man entertaining the crowd

 

Club Preparing for Competition

Our Competition is on Saturday, if your child needs a ride to the competition please email anarogge@yahoo.com so we can work out car-pooling.

The team is finishing preparations for our competition on Saturday. Dr. D has our T-shirts and stickers ready.

The students are excited about the event.

Students working on the poster.

The poster they will display to the judges on Saturday

First Successful Robot Mission

Today the Club completed its first successful mission. Check it out!

Next week the club will meet Thursday and Friday,  January 24th and 25th after school from 3:20 to 4:30 for the final touches. On Thursday, we will run all the missions and on Friday we will do a final rehearsal of project and presentation before the competition. 

Our Tournament "The Senior Solutions" 2012 Season, New Mexico FLL State Championship Tournament is Saturday January 26, 2013, from 7AM to 6PM at:

Albuquerque Academy 

 6400 Wyoming NE 

 Albuquerque, NM 87109

Here is the FLL website with information on the 1/26 tournament:

Complete Information and Map to Albuquerque Academy 


Today was very productive. Here are some photos of the club busy programming the robot:

 

  

Lego Club Chapel Presentation a Great Hit

We had a fun and productive morning presenting our work to our guests and Menaul school community at chapel. Here is the final Film and Skit presented by Club Members on Wednesday.

The club is still learning how to produce and edit videos, so we weren't able to make credits so here it is anyway:

CREDITS

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

The Bryant Family
The Oliva Family
Dr. De La Rue
Mrs. Cordova-Andrews
Mrs. Gilbert
Mr. Mains
And all the Lego Club Parents For their Support at Home!


Thursday Meeting

On Thursday the club got back to work on programing the robot and its missions for competition. Here Alec and Victor work on the "wood work mission"

Here Emiliano and Mathias brainstorm how to program their mission

Jackson is testing his attachment construction for his robot

Here the boys are having fun constructing their robot attachment and exchanging ideas

Today the students got together to finalize our chapel presentation, which we will post here after it's finished. We also talked about why respecting and taking care of  parents and grandparents is such an important value we share. Our chapel is next Wednesday and all parents and grandparents are invited! We would like to include pictures of Lego club members and their grandparents in our chapel presentation. If you have any pictures that we could include please send it to arogge@menaulschool.com, or have your child bring it to school ASAP.

Here is a preview of the video we will show in Chapel. The Club has been working very hard on it and it is going to be awesome.

Here they are working on the Lego film

Victor is working with Dr. De La Rue on a Lego attachment for the robot missions

Jordan, Marco, Joseph and Alec are reconstructing the robot

Here is our dog robot prototype