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The Earthlings are students who go to
different schools during the week, but have
studied simple machines and tabletop
robotics with LEGOs with Earthman, their
coach. This year's group did double duty as
the youngest Earthlings yet and also...the
Young Earthlings Junior FIRST LEGO League
team.
THE 2008 SEASON
Climate Connections was an interesting
challenge. DKTurnipseed worked with his
coach teaching simple machines, tabletop
robotics, astronomy, and visual poetry in
Parma in the Greenbriar Cafe after school
program at Greenbriar Middle School. The
students there helped develop some of the
Earthlings' robotic components that went into
the Climate Connections competition model.
It was DKT who added and then modified to
near perfection the feelers that trigger upon
capture to hold the scoring spheres (carbon
molecule models) taking the fork and making
it smart! Julyia's experience as a lead actor in
theatre (Brick City) helped her to direct the
presentation crew and write scripts.
The team was all young enough to qualify
as a Junior FLL team as well, so this year's
team made up for last year's team missing the
Regional by attending two, the Hawken
Regional as the E3 Earthlings FLL team, and
the Canton Country Day School Regional as
the E3 Young Earthlings JFLL team.
TEAM MEMBERS
CAPTAIN
Dalauntae K. Turnipseed, 3rd Grade
2nd-year FLL team member
2nd-year Tabletop Robotics student
1st-year Tabletop Robotics presenter
1st-year FLL captain
1st-year FLL team sponsor
1st-year JFLL team member
Julyia Cox, 4th Grade
1st-year FLL team member
1st-year FLL presentation leader
1st-year JFLL team member
2nd-year theatre student
Armane Hall, 2nd Grade
1st-year FLL team member
1st-year JFLL team member
1st-year theatre student
Robert Ramsey, 2nd Grade
1st-year FLL team member
For the Jr. FLL expo, the Young Earthlings
built a model of a floating city and research
station (after a Buckminster Fuller design) and
lake farming wave turbines and oxygenation
stations.
For the FLL competition, the Earthlings
practiced their skit in which they save some of
the most endangered species while farming
the Great Lakes on a floating city. They all had
some practice with the robot on the table, but
only their captain was there from the beginning
as it was built with the aid of the Greenbriar
Cafe robotics students.
2008 was the first step in rebuilding the
Earthlings with a very young team. The good
news is they've got years to go and they're
already having fun and doing well. Look for
more Earthlings robotics in coming years and
more E3 robotics in Cleveland and Greater
Cleveland and occasionally elsewhere too.
different schools during the week, but have
studied simple machines and tabletop
robotics with LEGOs with Earthman, their
coach. This year's group did double duty as
the youngest Earthlings yet and also...the
Young Earthlings Junior FIRST LEGO League
team.
THE 2008 SEASON
Climate Connections was an interesting
challenge. DKTurnipseed worked with his
coach teaching simple machines, tabletop
robotics, astronomy, and visual poetry in
Parma in the Greenbriar Cafe after school
program at Greenbriar Middle School. The
students there helped develop some of the
Earthlings' robotic components that went into
the Climate Connections competition model.
It was DKT who added and then modified to
near perfection the feelers that trigger upon
capture to hold the scoring spheres (carbon
molecule models) taking the fork and making
it smart! Julyia's experience as a lead actor in
theatre (Brick City) helped her to direct the
presentation crew and write scripts.
The team was all young enough to qualify
as a Junior FLL team as well, so this year's
team made up for last year's team missing the
Regional by attending two, the Hawken
Regional as the E3 Earthlings FLL team, and
the Canton Country Day School Regional as
the E3 Young Earthlings JFLL team.
TEAM MEMBERS
CAPTAIN
Dalauntae K. Turnipseed, 3rd Grade
2nd-year FLL team member
2nd-year Tabletop Robotics student
1st-year Tabletop Robotics presenter
1st-year FLL captain
1st-year FLL team sponsor
1st-year JFLL team member
Julyia Cox, 4th Grade
1st-year FLL team member
1st-year FLL presentation leader
1st-year JFLL team member
2nd-year theatre student
Armane Hall, 2nd Grade
1st-year FLL team member
1st-year JFLL team member
1st-year theatre student
Robert Ramsey, 2nd Grade
1st-year FLL team member
For the Jr. FLL expo, the Young Earthlings
built a model of a floating city and research
station (after a Buckminster Fuller design) and
lake farming wave turbines and oxygenation
stations.
For the FLL competition, the Earthlings
practiced their skit in which they save some of
the most endangered species while farming
the Great Lakes on a floating city. They all had
some practice with the robot on the table, but
only their captain was there from the beginning
as it was built with the aid of the Greenbriar
Cafe robotics students.
2008 was the first step in rebuilding the
Earthlings with a very young team. The good
news is they've got years to go and they're
already having fun and doing well. Look for
more Earthlings robotics in coming years and
more E3 robotics in Cleveland and Greater
Cleveland and occasionally elsewhere too.
Mixed emotions of relief, enjoyment,
and a little frustration at the Regional.
It's a rebuilding year and these are the
growing pains, but the payoff is ahead.
and a little frustration at the Regional.
It's a rebuilding year and these are the
growing pains, but the payoff is ahead.
Captain Turnipseed may not
have always been an
Earthling...
have always been an
Earthling...
Walty was a demo robot in
the 2008 Summer Tour of the
Cuyahoga County Public
Libraries where coach
Earthman and Earthlings
captain Turnipseed
presented a Mars themed
tabletop robotics introduction.
the 2008 Summer Tour of the
Cuyahoga County Public
Libraries where coach
Earthman and Earthlings
captain Turnipseed
presented a Mars themed
tabletop robotics introduction.
Dalauntae and Armane with their Climate
Connections robot, which features a
forklift retrieval system and delivery cart
extensions.
Connections robot, which features a
forklift retrieval system and delivery cart
extensions.
Earth photo composites by Reto
Stackli, NASA
Stackli, NASA
Dalauntae and Armane point to their
JFLL Expo models of an artificial
island and research station (a
Buckminster Fuller design) and
aquatic farming for oxygen enrichment
of Lake Erie.
JFLL Expo models of an artificial
island and research station (a
Buckminster Fuller design) and
aquatic farming for oxygen enrichment
of Lake Erie.
The 2008 E3 FLL Earthlings at the
Hawken Regional.
Hawken Regional.