On Saturday July 9, 2011, we
held our Great LEGO Boat Race VIII.
80+ folks attended sporting 31 boats of various shapes
and sizes. They had great
fun, consumed 20 pizzas and 120
cans of soda. And learned great
lessons in engineering. New team
mentors and leaders from a
number of local elementary
schools joined as well.
TechBrick has been advising
these emerging teams. We also
demonstrated our FTC bots (Teams
7 and 4234) and gave a SeaPerch
demo (see
our SeaPerch photos.)
There we amazing boats of all
sizes and shapes. Many with
great details and stories. This
is the point of
what we do at TechBrick through
US FIRST: Help young engineers
learn what it takes to design,
plan, and build great
technology.
Special
thank you to the Shulgach's for
sharing their wonderful home.
Special thank you to Emma Loftus for the great
photography. And a special thank
you to Baltimore Channel 2 News
Baltimore (WMAR)
for sending Peter O'Neal, a most
excellent producer/director, to cover our
event.
And the winners are:
CATEGORY (subjective)
NAME
Best Looking Boat
Peter "Black End"
Creative Engineering
Award
Nathan: "Space Station
Boat"
Amos: "CD Player
Adapation"
FIRST®, FIRST® Tech
Challenge, FTC®, FIRST® LEGO League, FLL®, Junior FIRST® LEGO® League,
and JrFLL®, are jointly held
trademarks of FIRST® (www.usfirst.org) and The LEGO Group, neither of which is
overseeing, involved with, or responsible for this activity, product, or
service.
