Monday Oct 27th meeting

The meeting will NOT be at the Library due to teh election. We will be at the Arboretum!!!! See you there at 3:45pm. I will not be back in town from the fair untill 1pm. Hope you had a good weekend!

Instructions for Conference Call

Hello ,

Thomas Settle invites you to attend this online meeting.

Topic: Climate Connections
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York)
Meeting Number: 922 791 460
Meeting Password: 12345

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Slide Shows on Erosion

Hi again, here are some PP presentations we ran across...

http://www.ncsu.edu/wrri/events/esc_workshops/spring07/Holley_Objectives.pdf

http://www.ncsu.edu/wrri/events/esc_workshops/spring07/Rodgers_Updates.pdf

http://www.ncsu.edu/wrri/events/esc_workshops/fall06/Hall.pdf

Erosion Discussion at Museum

I thought this might be helpful with the erosion topic....

Title:		What's the Price for Sandy Beaches?
Date:		Tuesday October 21, 2008
Time:		7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:		Cape Fear Museum
Notes:		Tuesday, October 21, 7 p.m. What's the Price for Sandy Beaches? Why do our local beaches need constant renourishment? Should we leave nature alone? A panel of experts discusses this ocean hot topic in what is sure to be a vigorous debate. Marine geologist and UNCW professor William Cleary, coastal preservationist and Caswell Beach Mayor Harry Simmons, and Cape Fear Coastkeeper Mike Giles form the panel. WECT anchor Jim Hanchett will moderate the discussion. Light refreshments will follow the discussion. Seating is limited. Free tickets are available at Cape Fear Museum. Call 910.798.4362 for more information

NC Competition Registration

Hello!  There are two statewide competitions available...the State Championship in December and the Rookie Challenge in January.  We need to decide which one to participate in or if we would like to do both competitions.  Either way, we need to raise money for the trips, so sell, sell, sell!  Good night...

Conference call...

Hi all!  I did not receive any responses for the conference call topic ideas, so we submitted it anyway and used the erosion idea.  There should be an email confirmation on the 17th and the conference call should take place on the 22nd.  

Climate Conference Call

Good Evening!

There is a conference call for the Lego League sponsored by the State Climate Office of North Carolina on October 22.  Deadline for registration is tomorrow.  Has anyone thought of anything they would like to research for the project?  We were discussing erosion.  Jeremy Burnett, Marine Quest director, said that he could give us some advice on the topic.  I need ideas and questions to post for the conference call by tomorrow.

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorogical factors in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity. The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, altitude, persistent ice or snow cover, as well as nearby oceans and their currents.

Robotics cancelled for October 13th

Hi all!  Sell, Sell, Sell! Don't forget your Belk gift cards and holiday wreath fundraisers.  OK, here's the news...

Bad news:  Robotics is cancelled for October 13th...will resume Oct 20th at 4pm at the Library.

Good news:  There's extra time to work on the research component!

Great new:  All of our competition pieces are in!!!

Speaking of research component...please check out the links posted previously and begin to brainstorm on presentation ideas.  Let's use this blog for communication for the project.  It's time to get started!  Here are the objectives:

1.  Research how climate affects your own community. Identify a problem caused by climate in your area, analyze climate data about the problem, and discover what your community is doing about it. Find another community somewhere in the world with the same issue and identify any solutions they are working on.

Discuss the various ways climate impacts your community and your lives. Look at climate data available for your area as it relates to your climate problem. Consider talking with experts who work in a climate-related profession every day, such as climatologists, farmers, foresters, and community leaders. Then find another community in a different geographical area that is experiencing a similar problem. Consult the FLL Topic Guide for additional project resources.

2.  Create an innovative solution based on the information you gathered. See if others, on a local or even global level, could use your innovation to solve this climate related problem or improve on an existing solution.

Consider all the potential solutions to your problem and how great an impact you can have. Talk with experts to see what ideas are already being developed or used. Build your climate connections by creating an innovative solution for your chosen climate problem that could be applied in both communities and adopted by even more communities who face a similar issue.

3.  Share your research and solution. Once you have researched and developed your idea, get out there and share it! Take what you have learned to build awareness of the problem and promote your solution, highlighting your research. Use this project to see just how great an impact you can have on your community and your world!

FLL Links

Hi all!  We are officially registered members of the FLL.  Go TEAM CHAOS!!  

Here are few links to gather information on our task ahead.  Explore them, there's lots of information:

Each annual Challenge has two parts, the Project and the Robot Game. Working in teams of up to 10 kids and guided by at least one adult coach, team members have about 10 weeks to:

• Build an autonomous robot that will, in 2 minutes and 30 seconds, complete pre-designed missions
  
• Analyze, research, and invent a solution for a given assignment
• Create a clever presentation about their solution to perform in front of a panel of judges

http://firstlegoleague.org/community/ContentPage.aspx?id=744

http://firstlegoleague.org/community/ContentPage.aspx?id=648

Video:

See ya Monday at 3:30!

Ty