Skills Canada Newfoundland & Labrador: 12TH Annual Provincial Skills Competition: Robotics

The Skills Canada Newfoundland & Labrador: 12TH Annual Provincial Skills Competition was held on April 3, 2009. Robotics is one of the competitions and this year students had to design and build a robot that would pick up tennis balls and drop them into a slot in the center of the field area. The teams that competed were from:

• Ascension Collegiate (Bay Roberts)
• Carbonear Collegiate
• Botwood Collegiate
• Marystown Central High
• O'Donel High School (Mount Pearl)
  

I had permission form the organizers to take some videos with my Flip Ultra Video camera and post them to our blog. Here are 3 videos that I quickly threw together with little editing:







For more information please visit Skills Canada Newfoundland & Labrador (http://www.skillscanada-nfld.com/).

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure

To my surprise and delight, Google Books has a preview of one of my favourite NXT books, LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure, by James Floyd Kelly. It is a great way to combine storytelling and learning about NXT robotics. I have used a few of the challenges in the books in the courses I teach and I particularly like the stringbot.

NL FLL 2008 Results

Here are the results from the FLL Provincial Competition held December 6, 2009 in St. Mary's, Newfoundland:

Robot Performance:
1st Place - St. Francis School (Harbour Grace)
2nd Place - Frank Roberts Junior High (CBS)
3rd Place - St. Kevin's Junior High (Goulds)

Project Presentation:
1st Place - St. Francis School (Harbour Grace)
2nd Place - Baltimore School (Ferryland)
3rd Place - Holy Name Of Mary (Lawn)

Design/Programming:
1st Place - Brother Rice (St. John's)
2nd Place - Frank Roberts Junior High (CBS)
3rd Place - St. Kevin's Junior High (Goulds)

Teamwork:
1st Place - Frank Roberts Junior High (CBS)
2nd Place - St. Kevin's Junior High (Goulds)
3rd Place - Villanova (CBS)

Overall:
1st Place - St. Francis School (Harbour Grace)
2nd Place - Frank Roberts Junior High (CBS)
3rd Place - St. Kevin's Junior High (Goulds)

NL Skills Canada LEGO Robotics 2008

The 2008 NL Skills Canada Intermediate LEGO Robotics Competition was held on November 29 at Brother Rice Junior High. It was a fun day with teams from all over the province competing in the 2008 Climate Connections Challenge. We run the Robot Game part for this competition and here are the top result:

1st Place: St. Francis School from Harbour Grace;
2nd Place: Brother Rice Junior High from St. John's;
3rd Place: Frank Roberts Junior High from CBS.

NL LEGO Robotics 2008 Season

2008 NL LEGO Robotics Competitions:

NL Skills Canada Intermediate Challenge 2008

• Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008
• Location: Brother Rice Junior High, St. John's
• Info: The scopes (guidelines) for the Intermediate Skills Canada Challenge have been released. Check them out here: http://www.skillscanada-nfld.com/ISC.php

NL FLL LEGO Robotics Provincials

• Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008
• Location: Dunne Memorial School, St. Mary's
  
• Info: The guidelines for the FLL competition are located at: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/
  

Climate Connections Challenge Revealed!

The Climate Challenge was unveiled by FLL on Friday but it is difficult to find on their web site. Here is the link to it: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/community/fll/overview.aspx

I recommend watching the videos to make sense of the Robot Game Missions.