Stamford Robotics

Just a quick note that we've published electronic copies of our Jr. FLL Expo programs from each of the last three seasons! Take a look to see all the great teams that attended our events as well as information about our awesome community supporters!

Youth volunteers! Want to get a letter recording your service?
Click here to tell us what you did!

Our 3rd Annual Jr. FIRST LEGO League Exposition in Stamford on February 7th was a smash hit! 30 teams representing 6 public schools, 1 private school, 3 community organizations, 1 homeschool team (from Framingham MASS), and 1 New Jersey/Connecitcut partnership team participated making this by far our largest event ever. Approximately 180 students participated, sharing their interest in science and technology (and LEGO) with our dedicated reviewers and interested audience. At the end of the day all teams were recognized with LEGO trophies and individual medals for their unique achievements!

We are very pleased to announce that Seema Winsor, co-founder of Stamford Robotics, was honored last week with the 2010 Women of Innovation award by the Connecticut Technology Council in the category of "Community Innovation and Leadership".

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We'll be there - will you?

The Stamford Robotics team will be at Stone Soup for the 21st Century.  We'll be in the fairway all day demonstrating JFLL and FLL for our community families.  Spreading the good word about the positive impact of these programs, and making sure families know the different ways they can make sure these programs are available for their kids.

Want to join us?  Contact us before Saturday and let us know that you'd like to come join us.

Stone Soup will be this coming Saturday at AITE from 9 am to 3:30 PM.  For all the details on this event go to www.stamfordasks.org.

We'll see you there!  Don't forget to bring a canned food item for the food bank!

<Check out the photos from this year's event>

Our second annual Junior FIRST LEGO League Expo in Stamford was successfully completed on February 8th, 2009! Thank you to all the teams that took the challenge, all the youth (high school, middle school and even elementary) who stepped up to be mentors, as well as all the coaches, volunteers etc. who made this event happen. Also a big thank you to our partners, Stamford Public Education Foundation and the Parent Teacher Council of Stamford. And finally, thanks to our corporate sponsors who contributed funding and in one case employee mentors to teams!

Our event was held at the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering which provided an outstanding (and appropriate!) venue for this youth science/engineering event.

29 Teams took the JFLL "Climate Connections" challenge this year (22 attended the city-wide Expo, another 6 will be having a mini Expo at their school). These teams represented 6 elementary schools as well as 2 community organizations and one community team.  We even had 1 team from New Jersey!  Our community organizations especially stepped up this year.  Last year only one community organization participated - Boys and Girls Club of Stamford.  Well, they were back and better than ever, but with 4 teams from YMCA our community organization representation was really strong.  We hope for even more next year!

As organizers of the event, Stamford Robotics volunteers were eager to see what these teams of JFLL students would come up with and we weren't disappointed! Their cool LEGO designs and impressive knowledge of climate were inspiring to the reviewers and all in attendance. From space satellite systems to weather flags these team's varied ideas about cool climate tools was inspirational.

The first ever JFLL Expo in Stamford Connecticut was held on February 3rd, 2008 and it was a great success!  20 teams attended this Junior FIRST LEGO League event ready to show what they had learned by taking the "Power Puzzle" challenge.  They showed off their LEGO models and "Show Me" posters to the judges.  They met with other teams to see what they had done and share their excitement about energy, science, technology, and, yes, LEGO.  They participated in cool activities and got to meet and hear from community leaders.  They came to celebrate the FIRST values of teamwork and gracious professionalism.  And they came to be recognized for their achievements with cool LEGO trophies.  Perhaps most of all, they came to HAVE FUN!

Happy Birthday LEGO Brick!!