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Volunteer with FIRST LEGO League at DCC!


The first ever MCC Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP) FIRST LEGO League team is starting at DCC - you can volunteer to play... I mean help!

FIRST LEGO League (FLL) puts children in charge.  Teams mix curiosity and imagination with LEGO bricks, sensors, motors, and gears to invent unique, autonomous robots capable of competing various missions. Middle school STEP students will desgin, build, program, and test their own robot.  They will develop a research presentation that relates to a problem or opportunity facing the world today.  The team will compete with peers in high energy sports-like tournaments. 

The 2008 FLL Mission:  Alternative Energy Resources - Meeting Global Demand
How do our personal energy choices to heat our homes, fuel our cars, charge our cell phones, power our computers, or even download music to our iPods impact the environment, economy, and life around the globe?  Which resources should we use and why?  Explore how energy production and consumption choices affect the planet and our quality of life today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.  Can FIRST LEGO League teams find the ultimate solution to this global power puzzle? 

**  The MCC STEP FLL team (wow, that's a long name) will meet Saturdays 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at DCC
**  View Rochester Robotics teams in the "Rachacha Ruckus" at Webster Schroeder on October 27, 2007
**  FLL Rochester Qualifying Tournaments: November 17, 2007
** FLL Rochester Championship Tournament at the University of Rochester: December 9, 2007 
 
Get involved with the team - inspire Rochester youth while you play with LEGO Robots!  Contact Donna Augustine, STEP Director, for more information at "mailto:daugustine@monroecc.edu" or x1673. 

STEP is a pre-collegiate program for 7th - 12th grade students in historically underserved groups that nurtures potential and creates pathways to success in math, science, technology, health-related fields and the New York licensed professions. 

 

Donna Augustine
Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP), Department of Education
09/12/2007