Hello again (and again for some of you!)
When we did a cookie booth at a Thomas More basketball game, the girls got to see the Thomas More robotics team practicing and building their robot for the FIRST League Robotics Championships ( http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc ). The girls thought the robot was super cool, and enjoyed seeing the students try and get the robot to be able to throw a giant ball into a target.
There are some videos of the competition from 2 years ago here to give you an idea of what we're talking about: (Skip to about the 8 minute mark to get to the actual game!)
The Wisconsin FIRST Team Robotics Championship is coming up--you may remember it if you went last year. While we learned it's hard to get seats, admission was free, and it was fun to watch the robots compete against each other. The girls met one of the teams afterwards and got to talk with them and see their robot up close. Would any girls be interested in going this year? The competition runs Friday and Saturday March 21-22. Since there's no school on Friday, that may be the perfect day to go. Robot competition starts at 8:30 and runs until about 6:30 at the US Cellular Arena.
I have room for up to 4 more girls in our car if anyone needs rides.
Is anyone else interested in going?
On a similar note, that same group has a Junior Lego League that we could do with the girls. Information about that is here:
Does that sound like something we could do with the girls? Teams are 2-6 children, so we could put together a whole pile of teams from our troop. Each team would cost $50 to register though, not counting supplies, so we'd have to be sure of having interest before making any teams. We have until April 16th to decide. Next spring, when the girls are wrapping up 3rd and 4th grades, our Girl Scout zone sponsors actual (not junior) Lego League teams, so we'll certainly try it then, whether or not we do Junior Lego League this year.
Aleks
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