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Outreach Opportunity!
Help with rocket exhibit at Lego League tournament? (10/26/1999)
The First Lego League (http://www.legomindstorms.com/first/)
is an educational activity jointly sponsored by FIRST (http://www.usfirst.org/),
Lego, and local businesses and volunteers. Each year, teams of
elementary and middle school kids design and program an autonomous
robot to accomplish a mission--this year, the mission is to go from
a base to a "space station", open a hatch, and then
transport foam balls ("oxygen molecules") from the base to
the space station, with a variety of options and scoring
chances. (If you go to http://www.legomindstorms.com/fll/,
and click on "FLL 1999 season" and then "The
Challenge", you'll get the high tech multimedia version of the
above. Not for the multimedia or bandwidth impaired!)
On December 11, about 75 teams from the Minnesota division (http://www.htc.honeywell.com/fll/default.asp)
will meet at Benilde-St. Margaret's School in St. Louis Park for an
all day tournament (sponsored by Honeywell, the Minnesota High
Technology Association, and other companies). As part of that
celebration, an exhibition of science and technology oriented
activities is planned, something like the state fair technology
building but on a smaller scale and more oriented to kids. I've been
asked to invite local model rocket and HPR enthusiasts to staff an
exhibit, maybe two. We have a lot of freedom, and could do anything
from a static display of a bunch of rockets to computer
demonstrations, half hour workshops,
giveaways, etc.
I'm hoping we can get some interested folks together to organize
something for the large crowd of talented and interested kids (and
their parents) that will be at the tournament. It's a great chance
to (re)introduce rocketry as a hobby, generate enthusiasm, and
contribute to science education in Minnesota.
Please feel free to distribute this among the various members of
your organizations, propose ideas, ask questions, whatever.
I'd appreciate all the help I can get!
Cheers,
--tc
Dr. Ted Cochran
Program Manager for Process Improvement
Honeywell Technology Center
(612) 951 7397
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