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FLL Team Information Sheet
FLL Team Number: 19237
Team Name: The “Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies” (FBRD)
School/Affiliation/Location: Blacksburg Home Schoolers (be afraid!)
Team Members:
Tabitha Weeks
Hettie Roberson
Abigale Roberson
Caleb Ohanian
Boston Rosborough
Caleb Helsing
Serena Helsing
Noah Provenzano
Seth Provenzano
Coaches:
Thomas “Tweeks” Weeks
Gray Roberson
Mentors:
Warren Rosborough
Lee Ann Helsing
Robot’s Name:
Mr. FireBiRD
Robot Design Information
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them something about your game strategy you think is cool, or some interestingattachment you
designed, or some other facts about your robot that you think are cool.
Project Information
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something special you learned, who you shared your research with, what experts you talked to,
and what you learned about your community.
Core Values Information
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problems you solved, what you've learned about working together as a team and what Gracious
Professionalism means to you.
Fun Facts About Our Team
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motto, or anything else you’d like them to know.
We have provided Robot Design supporting materials
We have provided Research Project supporting materials
We would like our presentation materials returned to us
Team Picture
Mr. FireBiRD (our robot):
-has modular dog gear attachments
-has 1-way door atachments
-uses TWO light sensors to line up on black lines
-has an instabumper
-is simple yet strong (it once destroyed a building!)
-we used port view to measure stuff
Pizza Boxes Can Now Be recycled!
We started off researching and experimenting how we could make pizza boxes recycling by inserting foil sheets under the pizza. In the process, we spoke to the recycling plants and found out that newer Single Stream recycling can now accept greasy pizza boxes (we emailed experts at MRSWA). The expert said people needed to be educated about this new fact, so our team created educational stickers and worked with Benny's pizza and other pizza shops in town to put our stickers on over 150 pizza boxes. We also created and delivered a skit on the subject to Rackspace employees, presented our project to them, and gave out free educational stickers.
-core values make work more efficient
-we had to learn to compromise.
-dividing work into roles saves time
-Team spirit is better when you act as a team & share work.
-G.P. means that you include every person on the team and that it's important to respect the ideas of others. Arguing wastes a lot of time.
Motto:
Build Ideas, Build Bots, Build Friendships!
Stories:
“The Demolition Arm” (ask Noah)
"Why we never finished demolition"
“The robot that slapped me in the face!” (ask Tabs)
“How we used K.I.S.S. to design Mr. FireBiRD”
"How we simplified our "line" myblock on the
Transportation (truck) mission"
"Using degrees instead of time to roll straight"
"The importance of good program naming and backups"
"Big teams vs small teams"
"Why asking experts is so important before making a solution"