Emceeing a match (left) and queueing teams for matches (right)
Our team members volunteered at the Pepin and Mille Lacs Leagues Meet 3, which was hosted at MURA Field. We helped set up the judging rooms and concession stand before the competitions began. We also made sure the tournaments ran smoothly by conducting field inspections and ensuring that all teams made it to their matches on time. It was very fun to see all of the amazing robots, and interact with the different teams there.
Our team went to HTK to build FLL mission sets for this year’s challenge, Superpowered. All of the mission sets built will be used at FLL Tournaments around Minnesota. Our team had a great time socializing with other volunteers in the FIRST community.
Our team members at the World Championship (left) and the FRC Competition Area (right)
During the season, our teammate Jackie was nominated as a Dean’s List Finalist so we decided to send some members with her to visit Worlds. While we were there, we signed up as student ambassadors or SAs. Our job as SAs was to give tours to representatives from sponsors and other large companies that are interested in FIRST, such as Boeing or LEGO. During these tours we would walk through each level of robotics from FLL to FRC, showing the representatives matches and introducing them to teams. We also directed them to specific teams that they were sponsoring, which let them to see what they were helping create. It was tons of fun exploring and seeing the VIP’s reactions to different areas as they learned about FIRST and some even considered volunteering in the future.
A couple of our team members helped build LEGO mission sets that would be used at FLL tournaments during the Cargo Connect season. All of our team members came from FLL and one of the things our team misses about FLL is building the LEGO mission models. We had a lot of fun and we hope we can do it again next year.
Two of us went to volunteer at a LEGO League tournament. It was a practice tournament with the Smart Move map from 2009. There were seven teams FLL competing there. The teams had 10 weeks to build a robot to compete. We were table resetters and score runners. We also checked in teams so that the tournament could run smoothly.
It was a fun experience to volunteer at the tournament. We enjoyed the tournament and would love to help out again.
Four members of our team went to help at the FLL Jr exhibition during the FLL tournament. There were stations set up where the kids could do crafts and we helped them with the crafts as well as talked to them about the next levels of FIRST. It was really cool to see how the FLL Jr level of competition worked and how creative all of the teams were with making their models. Also, many of the kids we talked to seemed to be enjoying the program and said that they wanted to continue with FIRST.