Robotics

2020-2021 Robotics Information

The 2020 robotics season will look significantly different in Iowa during the current COVID pandemic.

There WILL be high school robotics beginning in September. The challenge kickoff information is available starting September 12th.
- We will practice together in person (and virtually as needed for individuals) as long as circumstances allow.
- All preliminary meets are 100% virtual. We will design and build a robot here, and the virtual meets are simply us putting together a set of scores for our best runs a this year's game to submit to FTC Iowa.
- TBD whether any of the subsequent meets are to be in person. At this point they are planned on being virtual.
- Information will be sent out via team social media regarding ongoing changes to practices as needed.
- We do still have our Collins Aerospace mentor (Mr. Lempia) assisting, though he is also virtual with us.
Due to a lack of funding as well as plans for virtual meets still being up in the air, North Linn will not have a middle school robotics team for the 2020-21 FLL season.

First Tech Challenge and First Lego League

North Linn High School is proud to bring our students the opportunity to participate in extraordinary, beneficial, competitive, and challenging robotics programs for students in 6th-12th grades. North Linn students have been learning and competing in robotics since

We compete with teams from all over the state, and potentially the world, through programs run by FIRST in cooperation with

U of I and ISU.

FIRST

This smaller group of the high school team went to the 2017-18 league championships.

FTC Team #9215

Team Talos

Our high school team
Team Talos is named for Talos of Greek mythology. Talos was a giant bronze man who the forge god Hephaestus built to protect the island of Crete. This shows that even thousands of years ago thinkers were wondering about machines that worked by themselves or under direction.
Use Tetrix building kits, smartphones, and DC motors to create an 18"x18"x18" robot to earn points in a unique challenge each year.
Season runs September to January, and we work around other activities as much as possible.
In 2017 Team Talos finished their League Championship event on the 2nd place alliance and were only 1 spot away from competing at the State competition.

FLL Teams #12956 and #13731

Team names vary year to year

Suggested for 6th-8th grade students
Use Lego EV3 robotics kits to build a robot to perform tasks on a 4'x8' playing table.
Themes also invite creative solutions to real world problems. This years' challenge involved thinking about how we use water as a society and coming up with something that could help the world.
Season runs from mid September to just after Thanksgiving, and we work around other activities as much as possible. This year we held many practices Mondays after school to 5 PM.

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