T.N.T. - Under Pressure blows away the competition
F.I.R.S.T Lego League Robotics team “T.N.T. - Under Pressure” are: Front Row (L to R) Jarod Shea, Cameron Drenth, Nicolas Dottori Back Row (L to R) Riley Beam, Emily Drenth, Julia McTiernan. Photo provided. F.I.R.S.
F.I.R.S.T Lego League Robotics team “T.N.T. - Under Pressure” are: Front Row (L to R) Jarod Shea, Cameron Drenth, Nicolas Dottori Back Row (L to R) Riley Beam, Emily Drenth, Julia McTiernan. Photo provided.
F.I.R.S.T Lego League Robotics team News Release
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On Saturday, November 21, 2009, the F.I.R.S.T Lego League Robotics team “T.N.T. - Under Pressure” accepted the Champions Award at the Fifth Annual FLL Northern Ontario Regional Qualifying Tournament at Dynamic Earth / Science North in Sudbury, Ontario. T.N.T. will now advance to the FLL Ontario Provincial Championship Tournament to be held in Oshawa, Ontario on Saturday, January 16, 2010.
T.N.T. (The New Team) - Under Pressure is a team of six North Bay and area students, aged 9 to 11. They attend Vincent Massey, King George, and W.J. Fricker Public Schools, and Ecole St. Paul. They competed against ten other teams from North Bay, Sudbury, Noelville, Parry Sound, and Toronto. T.N.T. is the only Northern Ontario team advancing from this tournament.
F.I.R.S.T. Lego League is an international program, open to children aged 9 to 14, that combines science and technology with a sports-like atmosphere. Every September a new Challenge is unveiled to teams around the world. Over the next 10 weeks, they design, build, and program a fully autonomous robot made completely out of Lego to complete the missions set out in the Challenge. They also must research a problem related to the theme and present it as part of their project. The teams are judged equally on their teamwork, research presentation, design of their robot, and how their robot performs the required missions. The Challenge theme for 2009 is Smart Move – Discovering how people and things move in your community and what kinds of problems keep them from moving safely, efficiently, quickly.
T.N.T. had a particularly strong showing in their research presentation and they would like to acknowledge the kind assistance of Ray Marshall, Infrastructure Engineer for the City of North Bay.
