My Name

Fantastic 5 (FLL team)
Cincinnati and hopefully St.Louis

we advanced!

Hi! Our names are Jack, Thomas, Laura, and Mica. We are a robotics team.

This website is all about us! Get to know our team, our rules,our robot and our goals!

our team

Laura, Mica, Thomas, Jack, (who made this site with the help of Vinny).

our awesome team

hover or touch over this text for a picture of our team! LOOK! WE'RE STANDING ON THE WALL! or the picture is sideways, but standing on the wall sounds cooler. we are at the XU innovation center.

Vinny

we like Vinny because he is a programmer

Amy

we like Amy because she is a coach!

Jody

we like Jody because she makes us Go!!!

our robot

our robot

the bottom on our robot. notice the large (drive) motors are inverted, or upside down

Our Goals for 2016-2017

We came up with these during our first team meeting.

  1. Advance
  2. Follow Team Rules
  3. Build a Team Bond
  4. Improve over season
  5. Each member learns a new skill
  6. HAVE FUN

Team Rules:

These help us to accomplish our Goals

  • Put our best effort forward
  • No negativity to ideas
  • Red Light Green Light Rule
  • Don't get distracted easily
  • Keep positive attitude
  • Keep a sense of humor
  • Respect/listen to ideas
  • Learn from our failures

last year's award

this is our award from last year, the Judges' award.

Our normal agenda for a team meeting.

This is a normal agenda for most team meetings.

  1. arrive (always important)
  2. discuss goals for the day
  3. do a team building excersize
  4. discuss homework (yes, we have it, it's important, unfortunatly)
  5. Each member learns a new skill
  6. HAVE FUN

Our team outreach.

  1. maker faire (2013, 2014 and 2015)
  2. team open house (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 )
  3. iSPACE mission model build night (2013 and 2014)
  4. cincy kids tech day at Gaslight Software Inc.
  5. mentored Hyde Park School teams
  6. mentored Summit Country Day teams
  7. guest speaker for Institute of Business Anaylysts
  8. Scope Out
  9. iSPACE programming workshops

Vinny's programming tips.

Steps when starting a new program

  1. Open up a new project file
  2. Save the project - Use a helpful naming convention
  3. Our team will use this: mission_name_v{version}
  4. Make sure to put the files in the same place every time. For example, always put the files in an ev3 folder in My Documents.
  5. Build away!
  6. Save as often as possible.
  7. Don't be afraid to move fast and break things!