Registration Filling Quickly - Register this Week

Teams wanting to register for this year's FLL Smart Move season are encouraged to register soon. North American team registrations are coming in fast (over 100 today). I am not sure what the limit is but registration will close when the limit is met. If you want to participate this year I would encourage you to register this week.

To register your team proceed to the FIRST LEGO League registration site: https://gofll.usfirst.org/

Wyoming FLL Smart Move KickOff

Wyoming FLL will host a State-Wide KickOff of the 2009 Smart Move season on Thursday, September 3rd, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

The KickOff will take place at Casper College, Energy Institute room 100.

The KickOff will cover this year's Research Project and the Robot Challenge Field.

Please let us know if you plan on attending by providing your contact information HERE.

2009 Smart Move Team Flyer

Hi Wyoming FLL Coaches,

Here is a flyer that you can use to advertise your FIRST LEGO League Team for the 2009 Smart Move season.

Click on the image to download a PDF version of the Flyer. If it opens in your browser you can instead "Right-Click" (control-click on Mac) and use the "save link" option.

Oregon Trail Laser Blazers go on PBS 'WY Field Trip'

Excerpt from natronaschools.org article by Jenni Luckett

Members of Oregon Trail Elementary Schools’ FIRST LEGO League Robotics team headed into the field to study wind farms – and they’re taking other Wyoming students along for the ride.

The students were the first in the state to participate in a new Wyoming PBS project called WY Field Trip. The project takes a small group of students on a field trip while videotaping their experiences. The video, along with a variety of other resources such as a glossary, teacher tools, related links and quick facts, go up on the Wyoming PBS Web site so that other students in other schools can take a “virtual” version of the trip.

WY Field Trip - Wind Farms Website
Full Article

Wyoming Rookie Team Grants

FIRST LEGO League has awarded a $2000 FIRST Growth grant to Wyoming FLL. The grant is intended to help grow and expand FLL in Wyoming. The Wyoming FLL planning team has determined that we will use the growth grant to reimburse the $200 FLL Registration fee for 10 Rookie teams. Please read below for details.

Number of Grants: Wyoming FLL has ten (10) - $200.00 grants that will be awarded to ten (10) Wyoming Rookie Teams.

Grant Eligibility Requirements:
1) Teams applying for the grant must be a 'rookie' team. Rookie means that the 2009 Smart Move season will be the team's first FLL season. This would not include sites that had a team last year and reform annually to have a team in 2009 with differing members/team name, sorry.
2) Teams must attend AND compete in the 2009 Wyoming FIRST LEGO League Championship to be held on December 4th and 5th, 2009 at the Casper Events Center. Grants funds will be distributed AFTER the competition.
3) Teams must submit an invoice for $200.00 to NCSD after Dec. 5th, 2009

Grant Selection Criteria:
The first 10 teams registered in the FIRST LEGO League registration system (https://gofll.usfirst.org) AND meet the above eligibility requirements will receive the $200 grant. [Since the registration assigns team numbers sequentially, we will award the 10 teams that meet all eligibility requirements and have the lowest team number.]

Grant Application:
Please fill out the following survey to apply: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=b3e5EpxTsW_2bi8VWAqkVzvQ_3d_3d

If you have any questions please feel free to email them to me.