We are officially registered for the 2012 FLL Season. You can learn more about First Lego League, form and register a team with friends.
The field set for the robot game arrives early August 2012.
Team FLL kickoff event planned for August 25, 2012 at 2pm in the team lab. Model Scout Robotics is FLL Team #4934 in 2012. We are really excited about the upcoming Senior Solutions FLL season!
Here are videos of our quarterfinal and semifinal rounds at the North Texas Regional FLL Championship on January 21, 2012. We scored 205 points (our highest!) in the quarterfinal round and 195 points in the semifinal round. We made it to the final round and took second place, but couldn’t get a good video angle so we don’t have that one.
Many thanks to Michael Thomas for the video footage!
Here’s the quarterfinal round. The bacteria missed the sink in the final mission(s), so we didn’t get our robot-maximum of 209 points.
Here’s the semifinal round. The robot hit and moved the blue pollution ball as designed, but the ring moved with it so we didn’t get the points there. When turning to head to the far (east) wall, the angle was slightly off so we missed the purple bacteria dispenser.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we have retired ScoutBot after a great first season in FLL. Our team sponsor requested that we not dismantle him and reuse the parts. Scoutbot will stay assembled on a shelf in our lab with our trophies as a permanent reminder of our great first season in FIRST LEGO League. We will still take ScoutBot out to community events. Our coach ordered a replacement Mindstorms kit so we will have enough kits for next FLL season. 
Model Scouts had a great day at one of the five North Texas First Lego League regional qualifier competitions at Parish Episcopal School of Dallas today. This was the team’s first FLL competition. Model Scouts earned the 1st Place trophy in Robot Design and the 2nd Place trophy in the Food Factor Robot Game. There were 40 teams at the competition. We had dinner with our parents at Sweet Tomatoes to celebrate. Mrs. Michaud is buying us a video camera for our lab — thank you! That will help us playback our test runs.
We went to a scrimmage today to practice being at an FLL tournament. The scrimmage was part of Coppell High School’s Engineering Expo. So the afternoon was part scrimmage and part field trip. Robbie worked quite well on their FLL tables. We earned 121 points in the robot game. There were a few waves in the mat. We wonder if the regional qualifier tables will be similar. A big thank you to Coppell Robotics’ FLL Team “The Mad Cows” for putting on the scrimmage event!
Also, did you know that Coppell High School has an engineering booster club? Parents and the community really support the education of their future engineers in that city. Awesome!