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W.A.F.F.L.E.S. (FLL)

Our Robotics Team
Our FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team is a fourth year robotics team comprised primarily of homeschooled students from Kingston, Ontario.

We typically have 4-7 members on our team, ages 9-14. Our team name, W.A.F.F.L.E.S. is an acronym for “Wild About Family & Friends Learning Engineering & Science” and we think we live up to our name!

During the main FLL season we meet at least three times a week (with lots of homework in between) to design and build our competition robot, as well as program it and prepare our research presentation.

In competition we have 2.5 minutes to autonomously complete as many of the missions as possible on a 4′ X 8′ field table with our LEGO Mindstorms robot.  Each mission is based on the year’s theme, so this year we are learning about the “Smart Move“. We also have a 5 minute research presentation. Amazingly enough we spend hundreds of hours preparing for these few short minutes, but it’s lots of fun and we learn a lot!

As much as FLL teams are about building, programming and research it encompasses so much more. Teams learn about time management, teamwork, self confidence, leadership and core values such as integrity, good sportsmanship and sharing with the community.

FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” and oversees a number of programs – Junior FIRST LEGO League (JrFLL) for ages 6-9, FIRST LEGO League (FLL) for ages 9-14, FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) for high school ages, and FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) for high school ages.  FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen.

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Congratulations to all the FIRST teams!

We hope you had a tremendous amount of fun and learned lots this season.

The W.A.F.F.L.E.S.

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