Due to the decision of a few of our team members, we will most unfortunately not be advancing to an international tournament. This was, at least for some of us, a very difficult choice. We hope that all the other teams will enjoy their tournaments. Good luck to the teams in St. Louis competing this week!
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We participated in the Maryland State Championship today! We won the 2nd place Presentation Award. We are also advancing to the Mountain State Invitational Tournament in West Virginia this summer. We hope to see many of you there!
We won the Champions' Award at our Qualifying Competition! We came in 3rd place in Robotic Performance with 104 points. It was so fun competing - congratulations to all the other teams, and we hope to see you at the Maryland finals on February 25th!
Our qualifying tournament is to be on January 8th, at the Rockville Science Center. We hope to see many of you there!
We also have created a survey about cat obesity and ownership. Please, take a minute to fill it out. The link is below. Thank you! https://goo.gl/forms/phpkWccUurqavlcJ2 We were featured in an article in Bethesda Magazine! It shows a picture of last year's team, with our coach and assistant coach. It discusses our Trash Trek project and robot, and our accomplishments from last year.
If any of you want to see it, we are on page 74. The new season has begun! The theme is Animal Allies. We are very excited to be participating in FLL this season and hope to see many of you at the competitions!!!!
We have been accepted to participate in the National Maker Faire this weekend in D.C. Click here to go to the website. We will be sharing our project. We will also have an interactive EV3 robotics activity for people who want to try programming a robot. We hope to see many of you there!
There's only 2 days left until the Razorback Invitational! We're getting ready to leave for Arkansas tomorrow! We hope to see many other teams there!
On Sunday, we met with Girl Scout troop #1162 to share FLL, our project, and the robot board. We first had them do an exercise so we could get to know them. We instructed them to get in order from birthdays starting in January all the way to December, and gave them 3 minutes to accomplish this task! They finished in a record time of 1:32! #GIRLPOWER!! We then explained the basics of FLL, and we showed them a sample instant challenge, and had them divide into two groups. They were given marshmallows, popsicle sticks, and a couple of rubber bands, and were told to construct a tower that could hold up a book! Here are some pictures: We then explained the robot board to them, and they again, split up into groups. Heather and Aiesha explained how to program, and Aviva and Yiyi explained how the board works, how to run it, align it, etc. We then had them write down their favorite part, and many said programming! The Girl Scouts did extremely well, and they might just be the next big FLL team(s).
Many thanks to the Girl Scouts for meeting with us! :) It's official - the Wifi Wizards are going to Arkansas for the FLL Razorback Invitational! While this is an amazing opportunity, it will require significant funding. We are reaching out and accepting donations! To sponsor us, you would donate money to help us pay for the transportation and registration costs as well as lodging expenses. To learn more about the competition, click here. If you are interested in fundraising us, please email us or fill out our contact form on the home page! This way, we can give your further detail and answer any questions you may have. If you know any organization or company that you believe will be interested in sponsoring us, please email the organization's email address and/or Twitter to us. We will then send an email to them. Thank you so much for your support!
We were invited to the Razorback Open Invitational Tournament!!!!!! It will be held on the University of Arkansas campus, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It begins on May 19 and ends on May 22.
At the Maryland state championship, we earned the second place robotic performance award with 652 points on our final run! We've baked over 1300 cookies to share at state! We took some pictures for you to get a sneak peek! Our state competition is on March 5th, which is in 2 days!!!!!! Hope all of you are doing well in your preparation for state! :) PS- one of them has Pip, Aviva's cat! Isn't he adorable?
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