FIRST LEGO League in Slovakia

Slovensky

Welcome to the homepage of Slovak regional tournament of FIRST LEGO League! It is planned for the first time in 2008. Join us for the Climate Connections Challenge! The tournament will take place on November 14 in Bratislava.

The FLL is a hands-on robotics program developed by the LEGO Group and U.S.-based nonprofit organization FIRST (For Inspiration and (Recognition of Science and Technology).

Each September, FLL teams (children and teenagers aged 10 to 16) across the world take on a challenge to strategize, design, build, program, test and refine a fully autonomous robot capable of completing the various tasks using the LEGO MINDSTORMS technology. At the end of the eight-week design and build period, the teams compete in tournaments against other regional teams.

The vision of FIRST LEGO League is to:

• Open children’s eyes for the fun and excitement of science and technology
• Develop children’s ability to work in teams
• Stimulate children’s use of creativity in the problem solving process

Climate Connections - Building A Global Game Plan

The "winds of change are blowing" and with them comes FLL's 2008 Climate Connections Challenge! Join us as we explore why many experts believe the earth's climate is changing and how these changes impact you and our planet. The causes, contributions, and consequences are all interconnected and the experts are telling us to "think globally - act locally." People, resources, and local actions need to be united to establish a global game plan. Do FLL teams have what it takes to make these global Climate Connections?

The 2008 challenge specification in Slovak language is available here:

• Model placement
• Robot-Game
• Rules
• Research project specification

Contact

Pavel Petrovic
Faculty of Mathematics Physics and Informatics
Comenius University
Mlynská dolina
842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
E-mail: pavel.petrovic fmph.uniba.sk.

All organizers in Bratislava: fll lists.ii.fmph.uniba.sk.
Homepage: robotika.sk/fll

How to join?

If you satisfy the following conditions: your team has 5 - 10 members, your age is 10 to 16 years, (on September 5th 2008, every team member must be at least 10 and less than 17 years old) you have an adult coach, who will take care of you during the tournament day, you make use only of the standard LEGO Mindstorms sets (NXT or RCX), you program in standard RoboLab software, your couch can register your team on the website of the association Hands on Technology - the organizer for Central Europe: Registration (please do not forget to mark that you want to order the challenge set). Register early, the limit for 2008 in Bratislava is 16 teams. You can write also to us, we will inform you about all local FLL news. Note: one couch can register more than one team. List of registered teams Organizers team Download: Poster 2008

Links

• Slovak www-page of the regional tournament (slovenská verzia)
• FIRST LEGO League International
• Hands on Technology - FLL organizer for Central Europe
• FLL 2008 Topic Links

Organizers and Partners

Hands on Technology	FMFI UK	Robotika.SK	SSE	PIKOMAT

Eduxe	PC REVUE	IT NEWS	SIEMENS PSE