PHOTO IMAGEIn this picture, we are talking with the judge. He is confirming our scores. After checking, he made sure that we agreed with the scores and took an autograph of one person on the team. In the first round, our score was: 253! How exciting is that? Our judge was very nice and we got him...
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At the first competition, our team had a video for the research presentation. It turned out, our video was 3 minuets long! We didn't have enough time to finish our presentation. PHOTO IMAGE At the next competition we got rid of the video and found we had a minute to spare. In this picture I am an...
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Saturday, The LEGO Mountaineers went to a LEGO competition. The theme was nanotechnology Our presentation was very different from past years. PHOTO IMAGE...
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We had a team meeting tonight. It Has Been Decided 1. We Chose our skit. 2. We Chose Our Kind of robot (RCX or NXT). Now we decide which missions We do. So-far we chose: The Stuck Nanotip The Dump Truck The Bone Mission The Unstainable fabric Pizza Molecules And, The Individual atom Ma...
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PHOTO IMAGEWe ( the LEGO Mountaineers) just officially started programming our NXT robot. Our first mission is the "Nano Tube strength." What is our goal? Our goal is to push a small yellow dump truck on to a platform. Then we push a little lever on the platform to raise the truck. What does it...
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PHOTO IMAGEHi I'm Emily. I am here to write my third blog post. We just received the kit of pieces for our playing field. There are nine props. I want to tell you about a few. We have to lift a cancer cell out of a bone, we need to press a lever, swing a wheel and lower an item on the molecular...
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PHOTO IMAGEHi I'm Emily Mack. I am here to tell you about what happened today. Today was nonstop trouble for my robot and me. My robot started to skid during the mission. While doing that the robot fell apart. We had to take off some pieces. (Then I found out from Amy that the mission I was doing...
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Hello, my name is Emily Mack, and I am the newest edition to the LEGO Mountaineers. PHOTO IMAGE I have been looking forward to joining for about three years. So far, I have had a lot of fun. We completed two missions that my our coach (my dad) has assigned us. Let me tell you about them. In the fi...
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