{"id":7065,"date":"2009-12-06T19:20:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T03:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2009-12-07T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:55:36","slug":"carlsbad-team-wins-first-lego-league-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7065","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Team Wins First Lego League Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lego_team.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lego_team.jpg','popup','width=766,height=540,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lego_team-tm.jpg\" height=\"303\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lego Team\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team \u201cFour Wheel Drive\u201d from the <strong>Carlsbad Education Foundation<\/strong> made up of <strong>Anna Lozar<\/strong> research mentor, <strong>Mark Rotenberg<\/strong> programming mentor, <strong>Kasey Cinciarelli<\/strong> &#8211; Team Coach, <strong>Jared John<\/strong>, <strong>Harlyn Fitzgerald<\/strong>, <strong>Alex Kaplan<\/strong>, and <strong>Noah Knudsentook<\/strong> took home the Championship trophy in the First Lego League (FLL) Cup at Legoland California today (December 6, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Team \u201cFour Wheel Drive\u201d was one of 52 teams of 9 to 14-year-olds to compete in this high-energy robotics competition. Teams from Encinitas, Laguna Beach, LaVerne, Palm Desert, Poway, Ramona, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Westlake Village were also honored.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the jump for the entire press release.<br \/>\n<!--more-->FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO\u00ae League (FLL) is designed to teach children how to apply creative thinking and robotics to real-life situations. Teams participating in the FLL Cup came from all over Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>With missions exploring transportation solutions such as vehicle impact, passenger safety, and limiting traffic, teams programmed their robots to explore the challenges facing modern-day transportation. The competition was judged in four areas: project presentation; robot performance; technical design and programming of the robot; and teamwork.<\/p>\n<p>Team \u201cNinjaz\u201d from Encinitas took home the second place Champions Award and the first place award for Robot Performance. Other Robot Performance Awards went to the \u201ciBots\u201d from LaVerne (second place) and to the \u201cElectrically Operated Penguins\u201d from Park Village Elementary in Poway (third place). Robot Design Awards went to the \u201cRamona Knights\u201d  (first place) from Olive Peirce Middle School in Ramona; \u201cRobominds\u201d (second) from San Diego; and \u201cPeople Movers 1\u201d(third place) from Santa Barbara. Project Awards went to the \u201cSt. Jude Roboters\u201d (first place) from Westlake Village; \u201cCalavera Laser Storm\u201d (second Place) from the Carlsbad Education Foundation; and \u201cX-Treme Team\u201d (third) from Ronald Regan Elementary School in Palm Desert.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners include Eagle Engineering Blue from Chatsworth for first place Teamwork; the \u201ciBots\u201d from LaVerne for second place Teamwork; and team \u201cGOAL\u201d from Ronald Regan Elementary School in Palm Desert for third place Teamwork. \u201cLEGOna Beach\u201d from Laguna Beach won the Teamwork Award; the \u201cBrick Bots\u201d from La Costa Heights Elementary in Carlsbad won the Rising Star Award.<\/p>\n<p>FLL is a partnership between FIRST and The LEGO Company, which has been helping young people discover the fun in science and technology while building self-confidence, knowledge and life skills since 1998.  FIRST is a non-profit organization founded by world-renowned inventor, Dean Kamen, to inspire young people\u2019s interest and participation in science and technology. To learn more about FIRST, go to www.usfirst.org<\/p>\n<p>With so many teams in Southern California, LEGOLAND has added additional robotics competitions to the schedule for 2010 \u2013 the Winter Robotics Tournament in February, featuring robot performance and teamwork and the Spring Showdown Tournament in March featuring a space odyssey theme. There will also be a Junior FLL Tournament held January 30 for young robotics enthusiasts ages 6 to 9. Call 760-438-LEGO for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team \u201cFour Wheel Drive\u201d from the Carlsbad Education Foundation made up of Anna Lozar research mentor, Mark Rotenberg programming mentor, Kasey Cinciarelli &#8211; Team Coach, Jared John, Harlyn Fitzgerald, Alex Kaplan, and Noah Knudsentook took home the Championship trophy in the First Lego League (FLL) Cup at Legoland California today (December 6, 2009). Team \u201cFour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7073,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}