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29 May 2008

 

 Preparing new Team for 2009

To ensure the growth of the FLL program through 2009 we decided to start a pilot project with 16 schools in the Pretoria West district. The project is aimed at disadvantaged communities, but not exclusively.

The idea is to prepare grade 6 learners for FLL competitions in 2009. It will give them working knowledge of basic mechanical concepts while getting them aquinted with LEGO building blocks. Nearly 2000 learners has already started to participate in the program. The following schools has been included in this project:

  1. Mahlwareng Primary School
  2. Marefeng Primary School
  3. Mlokotwa Dube Primary School
  4. Laerskool Hermanstad
  5. Laerskool Eendracht
  6. Laerskool Tuine
  7. Lesolang Primary School
  8. Maropeng Primary School
  9. Tim Modise Primary School
  10. Marula Primary School
  11. Botsalo Primary School
  12. Ikeleng Primary School
  13. Gontse Primary School
  14. Sinqobile Primary School
  15. Rodney Mokoena Primary School
  16. Sun Valley

The project has been approved by the Department of Education. We hope to provide each school with 4 workshops during the year and have a competition for the top learners at the end of the 2008.

FIRST LEGO League Teams at TUT

The TUT has also decided to support a great number of FIRST LEGO League teams this year. The idea is to give as many learners as possible the opportunity to participate in FLL.

Training workshops for teams are done at the engineering department of the TUT. Teams from the following schools have already started with the training:

  1. Southdowns College
  2. Waterkloof Hoërskool
  3. MenloPark Hoërskool
  4. MenloPark Laerskool
  5. Garsfontein Laerskool
  6. WierdaPark Laerskool
  7. Johannes Calvyn
  8. HTS John Vorster
  9. St. Paulus
  10. Centurion Christian Academy.

More schools will be nominated by the Department of Education and will start with their training in May 2008.

Beyond FIRST LEGO League

The need for South Africa to have a sustainable robotics program for high school learners is pressing. We loose too many FLL veterans each year because they are to old. With no real program for them in later years, most of these learners are getting lost in the system.

At the TUT we are currenlty developing such a program for high school learners based on the OCCRA (Oakland County Competitive Robotics Asosiation) robotics challenge. We hope to have this competition going within the next 8 to 12 months.

Currently we have 1 joint FIRST Robotics Team ( Team 1025 - Impi robotics). It is a joint initiative between Trophy Robotics in South Africa and schools from Detroit Michigan in the USA. The team has been created in 2007 and has already won awards for animation, safety and robot quality. The Impi team has also participated in the World Championship tournament in Altanta and has been under the top 30 teams in their division.

Impi Robotics Team in South Africa will be starting interviews with potential new member in May 2008. Please contact Pieter Pretorius (zt.admin@mweb.co.za) if you are interested in joining the team. We will send you the correct information as well as an application form. We plan on interviewing new members in the following categories: robot building (4), robot programming (2), animation, 3D graphics and website design (4).

 FLL Photo Albums

1 Pit Area  
2 Opening Ceremony  
3 Team Pictures  
4 Team Image  
5 Robots  
6 Presentations  

 

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Applications for 2009 closes at the end of June 2008.

 
 
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