Terabots

 For the past 4 month, the Terabots have been meeting weekly as part of the First Lego League.  Cory and Jeremy were the coaches and boy, was this a learning experience for them.  

 Each week as they met, they had to come up with a solution to "Nature's Fury" using the Lego Mindstorm to solve the problem.  

 The Terabots focused on wildfires.  They found a solution for evacuating towns in the event of a wildfire.  They had to not only come up with the Robotics part of it, but they had to come up with a poster and oral presentation describing what they were trying to accomplish.

 Because this was a new experience for Jeremy and Cory, they were super behind about 2 weeks before the competition.  They ended up having 2 hour meetings every night leading up to the big day.  

 This is an example of what the robotics table looked like.  Each pair of kids had a certain task they had to complete in order to solve Nature's Fury.  Using the Mindstorm, they had to solve all the tasks in a certain amount of time.

 This was a great group of kids.  They all worked together well and enjoyed their time learning.

 On the day of the competition, all the teams met at Red Mountain High School to show off their tasks. This was an all day event.  One at a time, the teams would go through their timed tasks.  They had three opportunities to show what they could do.  It was fun and intense all at the same time.

This was a great opportunity for Brody and Jeremy.  They loved spending the time together and learning so many new things along the way.  The Terabots ended up placing 7th in the tournament today which was really good considering this was their first time.  I'm guessing there are a lot more years of Robotics ahead for this family.