JP2 Fireworks 2.0 #3272

Meet the Team

JP2 Fireworks 2.0

A Minnesota Robotics Team

 

We’re a FIRST Lego League robotics team! We’re honored and exited to be #1 FLL team in MN and we will be competing at the World Championship on April 17th-20th! Click here to learn about the World Championship. We have seven team members and range from ages 10-16. 

Charlotte is pretty good at programming our swerve drive, enjoys working on project and building, and likes Core Values games. This is her first year on the team! 

Lilly enjoys building and project. With a mentor, she created our hobby challenge. (To participate, click here.)

Silas enjoys building. He’s a co-captain along with Michael. He thinks quickly on his feet.

Ana Maria likes project and building. She loves doing outreach and core values games!

Anna enjoys updating the website and likes working on our project.

Joseph is our main programmer. He reached out to professionals, researched, and built. 

Michael created our unique and creative multi directional swerve drive. He is a co-captain along with Silas.

Donate

To support us for our trip to the World Championship, click here to donate.
To learn more about the World Championship, click here.

If you donated, thank you so much for your generosity! With your help, we’re able to compete against the top 200 FLL teams in the World. 

Thank you:

  • Lunds and Byerlys Company
  • Lunds and Byerlys customers
  • Hy-Vee customers
  • HighTech Kids-Natalie Tiedman scholarship
  • Knights of Columbus
  • St. Thomas Women’s Club
  • Individual Donors

Local Tournaments

State: February 18th, 2024

We are so blessed to have won the 1st place Champions award at State which means we are #1 FLL team in MN! The World Championship is on April 17-20th. During this time, we will compete with top FLL teams from around the world. To donate to the us for the team’s expenses, click here. We also had the highest robot score and won head to heads!

Regionals: December 9th, 2023

We won Champions! (Which means we advanced to the State tournament.) We had the highest robot score at the tournament. To learn more about our robot and the robot game board, click here.

 

Thank you, HighTech Kids crew, for making Regionals and State possible! We appreciate your hard work and dedication.

World Championship

World Championship Q&A

We are #1 MN FLL team out of 459 teams in MN. We will be competing at the FLL World Championship against the top 160 FLL teams from around the world on April 17th-20th, 2024. Unfortunately, there is no livestream link for the robot runs this year. 🙁 The award ceremony on April 20th, will be livestreamed at 2:30-4:00. Here is the link for the awards:

How much does it cost to compete in the FIRST Lego League World Championship?

We need $10,000 to cover team expenses. Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated! If you are considering making a donation, please click here.

Where and when is the FLL World Championship?

It is in Houston, Texas. April 17th-20th, 2024.

How many teams advance to the FLL World Championship?

Out of 50,000 teams across the world, only 200 advance to the World Championship-We’re one of those 200 teams!

Robot

2024 FLL Masterpiece 4x8ft competition board.

OUR ROBOT

We named our robot Lil’ Flex! We’ve shared our unique swerve drive robot with countless people and teams at tournaments! Some cool features include:

  • Swerve drive-only swerve drive in MN.
  • Drive train uses all four motors for drive.
  • 11 sensors
  • Flexible frame for more consistency on uneven robot competition boards-That’s why our robot’s name is Lil’ Flex!

ROBOT COMPETITION BOARD

Every year, FLL (First Lego League) creates missions entirely out of legos. The teams create a robot out of legos and accomplish missions by building and programming. To learn more, visit HighTech Kids.

2023-2024 Project Challenge

This year’s innovation project challenge is Masterpiece!

Can your team create an innovative project that shares your hobbies and interests? Find out more @High Tech Kids

To participate in our team’s innovation project, click here.

Hobby Challenge

Hobby Challenge

Click here to learn about the FLL Project Challenge!

We have created a hobby challenge for our innovation project this year. Do you think you have what it takes to participate in this challenge? There are seven categories of this challenge.

  • Basketball: Dribbling, Shooting, Games, Practices, Crossovers, etc.
  • Communication: (NO texting or emailing): Visiting in Person, Writing Letters, Calling on the Phone, FaceTime/Zooming, etc.
  • Running: Elliptical, Treadmill, Running in Place, Indoor or Outdoor Running, etc.
  • Calisthenics Strength Work (utilizing your body weight as resistance to perform exercise with little or no equipment): Pullups, Full Body Plank, Pushups, Flutter Kicks, Box Jumps, Squats, etc.
  • Reading: Leisure Reading, School/Information Reading, etc.
  • Art: Drawing, Coloring, Making Crafts, Painting, Online Designing, Styling Hair, etc.
  • Outdoors: Disc golfing, Walking/Strolling, Ice Skating, Sledding, Pickleball/Tennis, Being outdoors, etc.

Click here or scan the QR code below to participate in our Hobby Challenge! NOTE: The link to participate is the Hobby of Interest form. After submitting your hobbies of interest, please save the logging link (this will pop up.) 

Award

Every week, a $5 caribou gift card is given to the 1st place winner for the hobby of the week! (Whoever logs the most minutes.) Please understand that you may log other hobbies (out of basketball, running, calisthenics, reading, art, outdoors, and communication.) but will not receive a caribou gift card if none of them are the hobby of the week. Click here to know the hobby of the week. 

Questions? Comments? We’d love to hear from you! Contact us at JP2RoboticsTeam@gmail.com

Hobby Of The Week

Hobby of the Week-Reading

Please click here to learn about our hobby challenge before reading below. 

The hobby of the week is reading! Log your reading minuets! The competition starts on 4/12/2024 and ends on 4/18/2024.  The 1st place winner (with the most amount of reading minuets) receives a $5 caribou gift card!

Examples: (Reading texts or emails are NOT VALID)

  • School reading
  • Information reading

Award

Every week, a $5 caribou gift card is given to the 1st place winner for the chosen hobby of the week! (Whoever logs the most minutes.) Please understand that you may log other hobbies (out of basketball, running, calisthenics, reading, art and outdoors.) but will not receive a gift card as none of them are the hobby of the week.

Outreach & Core Values

CORE VALUES

As an FLL team, we follow the FLL Core Values:

Discovery: We explore new skills and ideas.

Innovation: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems.

Impact: We apply what we learn to improve our world.

Inclusion: We respect each other and embrace our differences. 

Teamwork: We are stronger when we work together.

Fun: We have fun.

OUTREACH

We love reaching out to others and showing them what we did!

  • We have shown and explained our unique swerve-drive robot to countless people and teams at tournaments. Click here to learn more about our swerve-drive robot. 
  • We mentor an FLL explore team
  • We have shared our project with many FLL teams including a team from Oregon and the Robo Dweebs.
  • We have shared our project with Cat in the Hat Comes Back FTC team
  • We have handouts that we hand out all day at tournament with our project, core value games, our website and our email.
  • We talked with a family at regionals that wanted to start their own FLL team and answered their questions.
  • We made QR codes for our website and our project and shared with others
  • We gave brochures to Lunds and Byerlys with our hobby challenge, website, etc.

Contact Info

We’d love to hear from you! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us @JP2RoboticsTeam@gmail.com

MN Facts

We’re From Minnesota! Here’s Some MN Facts: 

 

  1. We call it pop, not soda.
  2. We call the game Duck Duck Gray Duck, not Duck Duck Goose.
  3. Post-it-notes were invented here.
  4. Honeycrisp apples were invented here.
  5. The state bird is a loon.
  6. Hotdish is a common food.
  7. There are over 10,000 lakes.
  8. MN is known for outdoors.
  9. Lake Superior is in MN and worth a trip for.
  10. MN State fair serves food almost always on a stick.

Meet The Team!

Hi y’all! We’re the JP2 Fireworks 2.0!

Facts about us:

7 Teammembers!

6 Builders!

6 Programmers!

Homeschooling Team!

We Range from Ages 11-15!

This year on the team we have:

Michael, (6th year) -Team captain, and Main builder!

Joseph, (6th year) -Main programmer, and helps build!

Ana Maria, (3rd year) -Helps in all areas and loves Core Values games!

Anna, (3rd year) -Is Joseph’s programing apprentice, helps with project, and updates the website!

Colvin, (2nd year) -Helps in all areas, and really helps teammates stay on task!

Silas, (2nd year) -Builds, helps with project, and is an ambitious researcher!

and Lilly (2nd year.) -Helps in all areas and is the Firework of the team!

2022-23 Project Challenge!

FLL Super Powered Season!

This years challenge:

In the SUPERPOWERED challenge, FIRST LEGO League teams will explore where energy comes from and how it is distributed, stored, and used – and then put their superpowered creativity to work to innovate for a better energy future.

Good Luck to you all who are participating in the Super Powered Challenge this year!

To learn more, go to: High Tech Kids – Build. Create. Thrive.

Robot!

This year our robot’s name is Fusion!

We use One Gyro.

However, in case of need, we have:

  • four medium motors
  • three light sensors
  • one touch sensor
  • ultrasonic sensor

 

Project!

Problem: Road flare batteries discharge over time, resulting in unreliable performance.

Solution: Problem solved! A solar-power-maintained emergency kit called S.P.E.E.D. including phone charger, flashlight, road flares, and more! S.P.E.E.D. means Solar Powered Economical Emergency Divice.

This year for our project we came up with an emergency kit called S.P.E.E.D. to put in your car and forget about until needed!

Want to make your own S.P.E.E.D.?

Click here for a link to the flares.

Other other devises included that we had and did not need to order were:

Hand warmers

A Power bank

A flashlight

 

Good Luck to all the teams!

Core Values!

We use gracious professionalism and coopertition by congratulating all teams and cooperating by the tournament and FIRST rules.

Core Values:

Discovery: We explore new skills and ideas

Innovation: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems

Impact: We apply what we learn to improve our world

Inclusion: We respect each other and embrace our differences

Teamwork: We are stronger when we work together

Fun: We enjoy and celebrate what we do

Tournament!

Regionals (2022)!!!:

We had a great time!

We won 1st place Champions in our division.

We won robot performance award.

State (2023)!!!:
We won 2nd place for Innovative Project!

We had a great time!

We got three callbacks:

  1. Championships
  2. Project
  3. Project Presentation

 

Thanks to all the volunteers and HighTech kids to make this possible!!!

High Tech Kids – Build. Create. Thrive.

JP2 Fireworks 2.0

Introduce the Team!

Hi, there!

We’re JP2 Fireworks 2.0!

This year on the team we have: Ryan, Michael, Joseph, Colvin, Ana Maria, Silas, Anna, and Lilly.

Colvin, Silas, and Lilly are new to FLL this year. Michael, Joseph, Ana Maria, and Anna were on the JP2 Fireworks last year, Ryan was on a different team. Sadly, Katie and Maria Jose aged out last year.

We are a homeschool team, ranging in ages 9-14.

2021-22 Project Challenge!

FLL 2021 Challenge: Cargo Connect:

To improve the transportation of products. For more information see the FIRST website: here

Be sure to check for updates click: here

Core Values!

Core Values Game!! 🙂

Robot!

Fun facts about our robot:

  • swerve drive
  • easy access panels
  • it is a square
  • handle
  • wheel guard
  • weight 3lb & 3oz
  • Name: Legend
  • ultrasonic sensor

Project!

We discovered the problem of flowers tipping over when they are being transported.

We came up with a solution:

It’s a device that securely holds a vase with flowers in it. It is called the PAC and it for stands for Portable, Affordable, and Contractable.

Tournament!

Regionals!

We had our tournament on December 4th! We had a blast!!!

We won Highest Performance Score Award in our division!

We also won Champions award and are excited to go to State!

 

Thank you to all the volunteers!!!

Minnesota State Championship!!

We had a blast at our tournament!!!

We won the Engineering Excellence Award!!!

 

Thank you to all the volunteers and High Tech Kids who made this possible!!

Past Projects!

We, the JP2 Fireworks, Maria Jose, Gabe, Michael, Katie, and Joseph, in the year of Hydro Dynamics 2017-2018, created:

A fun and easy to play card game for all ages to help people learn about water and how to prevent water pollution. Our card game is called ‘Cool Watery Facts!’. If you want, you can print a free PDF file and it has instructions on how to print out our card game. Here is the link: https://www.shercofirst.org/CoolWateryFacts.pdf

We, the JP2 Fireworks, Clare, Joseph, Katie, Maria Jose, and Michael, in the year of City Shaper, 2019-2020, created:

A First Aid Kit, called, First C.H.I.B.S. kit. It stands for Cuts, Heat exhaustion, Injuries, Bruises, and Scrapes. It was designed to help people who are playing at parks with any of their needs. After talking to moms, many medical professionals (first responders, nurses, and a police officer), we came up with this kit. For more information, scroll down.

We, the JP2 Programmers; Maria Jose, Katie, Mary Ana, Grace Marie, Julie, Peter, and Patrick, in the year of Animal Allies 2016-17, created:

A brochure about Diabetic Alert Dogs for diabetics. We are very excited about our solution and we would like to share the brochure with you! Here is the free link: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochure.pdf We also created a Spanish version, link to Spanish brochure: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochureSpanish.pdf of the brochure because according to statistics, Hispanics are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes! We had a professional medical translator help us translate the D.A.D brochure into Spanish.

What we did:

  • We presented our solution to Diabetic Educators at Children’s hospital, and they invited us back to present at their Parents Support Group for Children with Diabetes.
  • Shared with parent support groups on Facebook.
  • Shared with 6 diabetics.
  • We shared with parents of diabetics.
  • Sent our brochure to Park Nicollet.
  • Created a survey asking people if they knew about Diabetic Alert Dogs.
  • We posted the brochure on Facebook.
  • We translated the brochure into Spanish because the majority for diagnoses with diabetes are hispanic.

JP2 Fireworks!!!

Meet The Team!

Hey all!

We’re the JP2 Fireworks! We are very excited for this year’s challenge! We have two new members on this team and sadly lost one. Clare was not able to join this year, due to her new school, we will miss her!

On the team we have…drum roll!!!!! We have Ana Maria (1st yr), Anna (1st yr), Joseph (4th yr), Katie (7th yr), Maria Jose (6th yr), and Michael (4th yr).

Fun Facts!:

We are a group of two homeschooling families.

We range in ages from 9-15.

We enjoy each other’s company and often play games after meetings have ended and other times as well.

Teammates!:

VIP_Teaser: She is our team captain and loves to lighten the mood by teasing! She is joyful and very good at managing!

Agent Magic: He loves to try out new magic tricks! He is a superb programmer and builder! He is our main programmer!

Agent Colt: She loves horse’s! This is her first year and is a joy to have. She always lightens the meetings. She is learning how to program and helped made our survey this year!

Agent Writer: She love’s to write! Sadly, this is her last year. She programs with Joseph and works on project!

Agent 3k: He loves to run! He is an amazing builder and built our robot this year. His building skills are expanding! He is really great at thinking through problems!

Agent: Puppy: She loves dogs! She always smiles and is always wanting to try something new. She is learning programming and helps to make sure that everything gets done each meeting!

2020-21 Project Challenge!

This year’s challenge is that people are not active enough, how is your team going to fix that?

Be sure to check FIRST’s website

On the above website you can find robot and project updates. You can also find the challenge overview, how missions work and more!

Be sure to check for updates. They sometimes change rules or clarify rules and it is important to know this.

Click on the link to get the updates.

Tournament!

We had a great State tournament!!!

We got callbacks for Robot Design and Programming.

We won first in Robot!

Congratulations to all the teams who made it to State!!!

Thank you to High Tech Kids and all the volunteers who made this possible!!!

We had a great tournament! We had lots of fun and celebrated!!!

Our team was able to watch the awards ceremony together!

We won the Programing Award and are moving on to State! We also had the highest robot score in our division!

Congratulations to all the teams!

Thank you to all the volunteers who made this possible!

Core Values!

How our team uses the FIRST Core Values:

We use gracious professionalism and coopertition by congratulating all teams and cooperating by the tournament and FIRST rules.

Discovery We explored building a different type of robot this year.

Innovation: We never don’t give up and try missions again and again, coming up with new ways to solve each problem we encounter.

Impact: Each team member mentors the other and shares the knowledge! We also help coach a FLL Explore team!

Inclusion: We always make sure that every one on our team is heard

Teamwork: We work together on project, robot, and teambuilding games!

Fun: We always have fun and celebrate with ice cream!

Project!

Hey all!

We created a survey for our project! Please take a minute and click here to take the survey! Thank you so much!

Problem: People are not active enough to stay fit both mentally and physically.

Solution: We’ve come up with an app to help people get active in order to be both mentally and physically healthier.

We have created part of our app on MIT App Inventor and are currently trying to get it published. We are very excited!

Robot!

Our Robot’s  name is Spark!

It has a wheel guard around the whole entire bot and we can use set on attachments! We use bicycle wheels.

Spark has:

3 light sensors

1 gyro sensor

2 large motors (wheels)

2 medium motors (attachment motors)

Our top score is 455!

We will soon put a video on with all of our missions. (the 455 point run)

Past Projects!

We, the JP2 Fireworks, Maria Jose, Gabe, Michael, Katie, and Joseph, in the year of Hydro Dynamics 2017-2018, created:

A fun and easy to play card game for all ages to help people learn about water and how to prevent water pollution. Our card game is called ‘Cool Watery Facts!’. If you want, you can print a free PDF file and it has instructions on how to print out our card game. Here is the link: https://www.shercofirst.org/CoolWateryFacts.pdf

We, the JP2 Fireworks, Clare, Joseph, Katie, Maria Jose, and Michael, in the year of City Shaper, 2019-2020, created:

A First Aid Kit, called, First C.H.I.B.S. kit. It stands for Cuts, Heat exhaustion, Injuries, Bruises, and Scrapes. It was designed to help people who are playing at parks with any of their needs. After talking to moms, many medical professionals (first responders, nurses, and a police officer), we came up with this kit. For more information, scroll down.

We, the JP2 Programmers; Maria Jose, Katie, Mary Ana, Grace Marie, Julie, Peter, and Patrick, in the year of Animal Allies 2016-17, created:

A brochure about Diabetic Alert Dogs for diabetics. We are very excited about our solution and we would like to share the brochure with you! Here is the free link: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochure.pdf We also created a Spanish version, link to Spanish brochure: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochureSpanish.pdf of the brochure because according to statistics, Hispanics are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes! We had a professional medical translator help us translate the D.A.D brochure into Spanish.

What we did:

  • We presented our solution to Diabetic Educators at Children’s hospital, and they invited us back to present at their Parents Support Group for Children with Diabetes.
  • Shared with parent support groups on Facebook.
  • Shared with 6 diabetics.
  • We shared with parents of diabetics.
  • Sent our brochure to Park Nicollet.
  • Created a survey asking people if they knew about Diabetic Alert Dogs.
  • We posted the brochure on Facebook.
  • We translated the brochure into Spanish because the majority for diagnoses with diabetes are hispanic.

JP2 Fireworks!!

Meet the Team!

Meet our Team!

We have Maria Jose (5th year), Clare (5th year), Joseph (3rd year), Katie (6th year), and Michael (3rd year).

We are all homeschoolers and range from ages 11 to 14!

Joyful (Maria Jose), is our team captain! She sends out homework emails and keeps everyone on track! She helps with programming, building, and project! She brings energy to the team and her fun self!

Positive (Clare), has many innovative ideas! She is our main researcher. She helps with programming and building! She brings creative ideas and her fun self!

2Estatic (Michael), has so much energy he energizes each of us! He as creative ideas and spends nights and days building! He also helps with project. He brings excitement and his fun self to the team!

Funtastic (Katie), is energetic. She laughs and makes puns. She has lots of ideas and enjoys building! She also programs and helps with project. She brings energy and her fun self!

Wingman (Joseph),  has so much persistence! He programs! He has lots of encouraging phrases to share. He spends nights and days programing and building. He brings enthusiasm and his fun self!

Hi All! We’re the JP2 Fireworks! We are all excited and enjoying this years challenge, City Shaper!

Fun Facts:

Team ranges in ages from 14 to 11!

We are all Homeschoolers!

We are full of energy!

We love helping other teams!

We enjoy FLL!

For goofy Picture click on the Pictures tab!

Click on our Robot tab to learn about our bot, CHIBY, and see a video of a 480 point run!

Click on our Project tab and learn about how we shared out project with parks and take a survey while you’re there!

Click on our Core Values tab to see how we use our Core Values!

The Reason for Our Name:

We chose the name JP2 Fireworks because our team has lots of energy and we love to scream and have fun at tournaments. We thought that a Firework described us pretty well. JP2 stands for St. John Paul 2, he is our patron saint!

2019-20 Project Challenge!

City Shaper!

Identify a problem with a building or a public space in your community!

Design a solution!

Share your solution with others and than refine it!

'Tis The Off Season!

Hey all! We are very excited for next season! but ’til then we will keep thinking and having fun!

Here are some things that we are grateful for!

  1. The Sun!
  2. Music!
  3. The birds singing in the sky!
  4. Friendship!
  5. Family!

Core Values!

We had a blast at Regionals and Sectionals and State! At Regionals we played in the snow with another team! At Sectionals we handed out stickers, (like always!) and glowsticks! At State we danced! We are always full of energy! We enjoy cheering each other and other teams on during the day. We like to help other teams and enjoy hanging out with each other! We enjoy FLL!!! We have all changed a lot since joining FLL.

Thanks volunteers who make this possible!

FIRST Core Values:

We express the FIRST philosophies of Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition through our Core Values:

Discovery: We explore new skills and ideas.

Innovation: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems.

Impact: We apply what we learn to improve our world.

Inclusion: We respect each other and embrace our differences.

Teamwork: We are stronger when we work together.

Fun: We enjoy and celebrate what we do.

Fun Core Values Game!!!!

We play Rock, Paper, Scissors, Tag!!! You have to work as a team to tag people on the other team. The team with the most people, win! It’s so much fun!!!

How We Use the Core Values

We use Gracious Professionalism by helping and cheering for other teams! We use Coopertition by competing and using the rules.

Discovery: Our team researches to learn new things.

Innovation: We creatively solve problems in all three aspects of FLL. Each week we complete a new challenge for Core Values

Teamwork: We worked together to decide on a project and voted. We also unanimously decided on what missions to work on with our robot.

Fun: We have fun together during our meeting time completing core values activities, practicing our skit, and running missions.

Impact: We impact our world by presenting our project to our professionals and placing it to help people.

Inclusion: We use inclusion by completing core values games with other teams.

Robot!

Our robot, CHIBBY, is a set on robot!

CHIBBY is a very good bot and we are possible of getting 495 points!

CHIBBY consists of:

-wheel guard

-2 med. motors for attachments

-6 sensors: 4 light sensors, 1 gyro sensor, and 1 touch sensor.

We like using sensors because they keep things more accurate! If you saw our attachments and CHIBBY you’d be surprised that we fit in the small inspection area, but we do! The puzzle changes everytime but it works and fits in, everytime!

Hey all!!

We got a score of 425 at State!!! It was soo much fun!!!

We also won the 1st Place Programming Award!!

Our highest possible score is 495! At Sectionals we got 480, we missed one flag! It was an awesome run!

We won highest robot score with 410 and won Head-to-Head with 480!!

At Regionals we won the highest robot score with 400 and design!

Project!

Our Project is a First Aid Kit at Parks!

We created a survey (link is below) and talked to moms and many medical professionals including first responders, nurses, and police officer. We also talked to engineers at Boston Scientific, (thanks!). Our First Aid Kit, called: A 1st C.H.I.B.S Kit (stands for Cuts, Heat exhaustion, Injuries, Bruises, and Scrapes).

At State we won the Research Award, 2nd place!

Our Kit is currently at Milller Park in Eden Prairie!

We presented our kit to the Maple Grove Parks Board meeting and they really liked it and will be placing it in the Spring.

We are currently in contact with Three Rivers.

Hey guys!

Our team is doing Safety at Parks. We Created a Survey about our project. If you’d like to take our Survey click here, it will only take 2 minuets. Thanks!

Pictures!

Matching socks, few weeks in a row!

Human Foosball!!!                                                                      Building on the table!!!

Tournaments!

State:

We competed on Feb. 22nd at Washington Technology Magnet School. We had a blast at State!! We partied and danced and cheered!!! We also handed out lots of glowsticks! We got a score of 425 for our CHIBY!

We also got 4 Callbacks! They were Programming, Research Quality, Creative Presentation and Championship!

We won 1st Place in Programming and 2nd place for the Research Award!

It was a great day!

Thank you to all the volunteers who made this possible!

Sectionals:

We competed on Jan. 11th at Capitol Hill. We had so much fun, it was a blast! We won the Core Values award in our division! We had the highest robot score in our division with a score of 410! We won Head-to-Head in our division with a score of 480! We are so excited to be moving on to State. It will be so much fun!!

Thank you to all the volunteers who made this possible! 🙂

Regionals:

We competed Dec. 7th at Maple Grove Senior High. We had a great time! We got our max points, 4oo!!! We won robot design and got an award for the highest robot score in our division. We are moving on to sectionals!!! We will be getting ready and can’t wait for sectionals! Good luck to all the teams out there!

Why join?

More Than Just robots!

For our team, as well as others, FLL is more than just robots. It’s about creating friendships, learning problem solving skills, learning public speaking skills, and much much more!

FLL has helped some of our team members move on to FTC after having aged out. FLL has helped with problem solving, which is a helpful skill in FTC. When some of our team members moved on FTC, they were able to solve robot problems with less difficulty because they already had the experience from FLL.

How FLL Has Impacted Our Team:

FLL has helped me with my public speaking -Claire

It has helped me to become a better leader and to include others -Maria Jose

It’s helped me with problem solving skills and I’ve learned lots about building! -Michael

After updating the website and working with photoshop for our t-shirts I became interested in graphic design. -Katie

FLL has taught me how to persevere even when things are tough. -Joseph

Past Projects!

We, the JP2 Fireworks, Maria Jose, Gabe, Michael, Katie, and Joseph, in the year of Hydro Dynamics, created:

A fun and easy to play card game for all ages to help people learn about water and how to prevent water pollution. Our card game is called ‘Cool Watery Facts!’. If you want, you can print a free PDF file and it has instructions on how to print out our card game. Here is the link: https://www.shercofirst.org/CoolWateryFacts.pdf

 

We, the JP2 Programmers; Maria Jose, Katie, Mary Ana, Grace Marie, Julie, Peter, and Patrick, in the year of Animal Allies, created:

A brochure about Diabetic Alert Dogs for diabetics. We are very excited about our solution and we would like to share the brochure with you! Here is the free link: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochure.pdf We also created a Spanish version, link to Spanish brochure: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochureSpanish.pdf of the brochure because according to statistics, Hispanics are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes! We had a professional medical translator help us translate the D.A.D brochure into Spanish.

What we did:

  • We presented our solution to Diabetic Educators at Children’s hospital, and they invited us back to present at their Parents Support Group for Children with Diabetes.
  • Shared with parent support groups on Facebook.
  • Shared with 6 diabetics.
  • We shared with parents of diabetics.
  • Sent our brochure to Park Nicollet.
  • Created a survey asking people if they knew about Diabetic Alert Dogs.
  • We posted the brochure on Facebook.
  • We translated the brochure into Spanish because the majority for diagnoses with diabetes are hispanic.

Meet the Team!

Hi all! We’re the JP2 Fireworks!: Michael, Katie, Gabe, Maria Jose, Olivia, Joseph, and Cecelia! This is our 2nd year, and we are excited!

 Olivia and Cecelia are new to the team this year and we are happy to have them!  We are also excited to teach them and have their new ideas on the team! Our homeschool team ranges in age from 10 to 13.

Joyful Right Hand Gal (Maria Jose). helps keep everyone on track, helps in all area’s, helps the team captain.

Builderific, (Gabe), keeps everyone smiling, builds, helps program.

Fantastic Builder, (Michael) builds stuff, helps program, keeps everyone laughing.

Joyful Team Captain, (Katie) helps program and build, takes care of our robot and team pages, we voted for her.

Relentless Programmer, (Joseph) loves programming, practiced programming over the summer to help his team, good job at engaging everyone, helps build.

Ingenious Typer, (Olivia) type’s a lot of our documents, keeps everyone upbeat, helps make display boards.

Talented Team Artist, (Cecelia), helps with display boards, helps with programming, is always cheerful.

 

2018-19 Project Challenge!

This years challenge is about space! Its way out there!

Have your team identify a human physical or social problem faced during a long duration space exploration within our Sun’s solar system and propose a solution. Here is the website for more information if you like: http://firstlegoleague.org/challenge

The Core Values!

This years Core Values are:

Discovery: We explore new skills and ideas.

Innovation: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems.

Impact: We apply what we learn to improve our world.

Inclusion: We respect each other and embrace our differences.

Teamwork: We are stronger when we work together.

Fun: We enjoy and celebrate what we do.

We got Core Values callback at State!!!!!!

Which means we won Core Values in our division!!!!!!!!

Some Examples of How We Use Our FLL Core Values outside/inside of FLL:

Discovery [we explore new skills and ideas]:

I learned how to add and subtract improper fractions.

I learned the START-GO operation of a snowmobile.

Innovation [we use creativity and persistence to solve problems]:

I was in a piano recital and I messed up in some of my pieces and the I used persistence and creativity to keep on going in my pieces.

I used creativity and persistence to complete my timeline for school.

Impact [we apply what we have learned to improve our world]:

I applied my knowledge of measuring from math to bake a cake for my aunt’s birthday.

I applied what I had learned in math to help my friends and siblings.

Inclusion [ we respect each other and embrace out differences]:

I was dancing with my older sister when my younger sister wanted to dance with me. I respected her and embraced our differences, she’s much smaller than me, and danced with her as well.

I invited some people to come play with us and respected and embraced their amazing personalities!

Teamwork [we are stronger when we work together]:

My dad was needing help setting up a tent for our 4H party. I asked my brother and we both helped him to get the tent up.

My family and I worked together to set up our train set.

Fun [we enjoy and celebrate what we do]:

I was in charge of getting exercise for our dog and I made it fun by including other family members in a game of soccer with our dog and had fun!

Me and my family had a dart war and had fun!

Robot!

Our robot, PROTECH3272, has a wheel guard to keep the wheels from catching on things. We have bicycle wheels for the front wheels and 2 marbles for the back wheels. We have two large attachment motors one on the front and one on the back. We have 3 sensors: 2 touch sensors for squaring up on the walls and 1 gyro for helping the robot go straight instead of going all wacky.

Our Missions:

Run 1: Ramp and Space travel loads 1 and 2, and solar panel (64)

Run 2: Extraction, Getting Astronaut (26)

Run 3: Escape Velocity, placing Astronaut, & Observatory (66)

Run 4: Crater Crossing, 3D Printer, 2 satellites, food growth, & drop water (78)

Total=234!!!!

We got 220 at State!

This attachment/run does the ramp and space travels and solar panel!

The front of the attachment comes off, we just push it out there and it lifts the ramp and we use our solar panel arm to trigger the placing of the space travel and crew onto the ramp. This mission is VERY consistent!

The PROTECH3272!

This attachment does the Observatory, placing Astronaut Gerhard, and Escape Velocity! The bot pushes the bottom attachment out and the hammer slams down onto Escape Velocity and the arm in the back places the Astronaut Gerhard. We have a foldable arm that folds out when we start to drive out of base and that foldable arm pushes the observatory! It has been lots of fun!

At State, we were in the top 4 highest robot scores overall for the 3 rounds in the morning at the end of the day!!!!!!!!!!

Project!

Our Problem: Astronauts must exercise 3 hours a day while they are in space and that takes time away from doing their jobs. They exercise 3 hours a day to help their bone atrophy.

Our Solution: An adjustable exercise brace that astronauts can wear to exercise while doing their other jobs. This way it saves time and they don’t have to spend 3 hours each day exercising.

We shared our Solution with:

  1. 4+ FLL Teams
  2. Friends
  3. Family
  4. People on our Website (like all ya’ll!)
  5. An FTC Team
  6. Our Homeschool co-op.
  7. Judge’s at tournaments
  8. Our Professionals

-Dr. Richard Endris (Chiropractor)

-Dr. Brad Holschuh (Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Wearable Technology  Laboratory)

-Mr. Jeff Fleige (Medical Device Engineer)

-Mrs. Jean Bakos (Science Teacher)

-Mr. Ryan Hiem (Fitness Instructor)

-Suzie Masterman (Seamstress)

8. NASA

Pictures!

JP2 Fireworks

Season: Into Orbit 2018-2019

Acrobatics Teammates teaching the others!

Maria Jose and Teddy!

One of our team members wasn’t able to make it to the meeting so we called her and she was there with us!

Acrobatics Teammates teaching the others!

Gabe and Cecelia trying to touch their feet with their heads!

JP2 Fireworks.

Season: Hydro Dynamics 2017-2018

Tournaments!

Sectional Tournament Highlights:

We handed out stickers and glowsticks, like always! 🙂

We all had a ton of fun! We enjoyed cheering each other and other teams on!

We achieved our goal and had lots of fun!

The next goal for State is to have FUN!

We won the programming award!!!

We are going to State and are VERY excited!!!!!!!

Regional Tournament Highlights:

It started to snow half way through tournament!

We handed out stickers and glowsticks to people.

We had a wonderful time and enjoyed cheering a ton!

Our goal at tournaments is to always have FUN!

We won the programming award and the highest robot score in our division!

State Tournament Highlights:

We handed out stickers and glowsticks!

We enjoyed it and achieved our main goal: to have FUN!!!

We will soon have pictures from State tournament in the pictures tab!

We got Core Values callback, which means we won Core Values in our division!!

We were in 4th place Robot performance score overall with a score of 220!!!!!!!!

It was so much FUN!!!!!!!

We can’t wait ’til next year!!!!

Past Projects

We, the JP2 Fireworks in our first year, Hydro Dynamics, created:

Our Problem:

There is a lack of knowledge about what individuals can do on their own to improve water quality!

Our Solution:

We’ve created a fun and easy to play card game to teach people of all ages what they can do on their own to improve water quality!!!

Our card game is called ‘Cool Watery Facts!’. If you want, you can print a free PDF file and it has instructions on how to print out our card game. Here is the link: https://www.shercofirst.org/CoolWateryFacts.pdf

JP2 Programmers Past Projects:

  1. We created a brochure about Diabetic Alert Dogs for diabetics.
  2. We presented our solution to Diabetic Educators at Children’s hospital, and they invited us back to present at their Parents Support Group for Children with Diabetes.
  3. Shared with parent support groups on Facebook.
  4. Shared with 6 diabetics.
  5. We shared with parents of diabetics.
  6. Sent our brochure to Park Nicollet.
  7. Created a survey asking people if they knew about Diabetic Alert Dogs.
  8. We posted the brochure on Facebook.
  9. We translated the brochure into Spanish because the majority for diagnoses with diabetes are hispanic.

We are very excited about our solution and we would like to share the brochure with you! Here is the link: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochure.pdf We also created a Spanish version of the brochure because according to statistics, Hispanics are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes! We had a professional medical translator help us translate the D.A.D brochure into Spanish. Link to Spanish brochure: https://www.shercofirst.org/DiabeticAlertDogsBrochureSpanish.pdf

We are happy that we have, Maria Jose, Katie, Michael, Joseph, and Gabe on the JP2 Fireworks! Maria Jose and Katie were on the JP2 Programmers team, most people from that team aged out except Katie and Maria Jose. This is Michael’s, Gabe’s and Joseph’s first year!!! This is going to be exciting!

We have created a fun & easy to play card game! It would mean a lot to us if you print this out and play it! Here is the link: http://shercofirst.org/CoolWateryFacts.pdf

On this PDF file it has instructions on how to print this out.

This Years Challenge is: Hydro Dynamics

The Project Challenge is: How find, use, transport, and dispose of water. Sounds super cool! Right? 😉

The Robot Challenge is: This super awesome board that we are making a robot for to complete the missions on the board! We’ll have a picture soon of the board and our awesome robot! 😉

The Core Values Challenge is: are you ready? Okay here it is! We as a team get to solve problems working together. And have an awesomely fun time! 😉

We have been on 6 tours! Here are the tours we have been on!:

Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, We learned: That no one should swim in a lake or river for at least 1-2 days after it rains because storm runoff contains pollution that ends up in the water in higher concentrations.

Coon Rapids Dam, We learned: The Dam was rebuilt so many times.

Maple Grove Water Treatment Plant, We learned: The water Maple Grove gets from the aquifer is very clean and drinkable as is.

Elk River Waste Water Treatment Plant,  We learned: The Waste Water Treatment plant cleans water from the sewers before putting it back in the Mighty Muddy Mississippi River.

Eastman Nature Center, We learned: A big problem is garbage going into the ocean.

Heidi’s Growhaus, We learned: Rain Gardens help to clean the water before the water eventually drains in the river and it’s important to design the rain garden with the right soil, plants, and location.

All these tours have been super fun and we have learned a lot! We have been working on our skit, and some missions! It’s been fun!

We have two missions done for our robot! Our robot’s name is FireBot. We are using our second robot. our first robot was not symmetrical, and lop-sided, so we built a new one.  This is fun! 🙂 We have also been working on our skit! thanks to our Fearless Team Captain, the skit is done! We have made nicknames for each of our team members. Fearless Team Captain, Fearless Helpmate, Builderific 1, Builderific 2, and Remarkable Programmer. Our Remarkable programmer is hard at work right now, getting more missions done. Fearless Team Captain has helped with the skit, boards, and the card game! Builderific 1 and Builderific 2 are like glued together, they have been helping build and make boards! Fearless Helpmate has been helping with building and programming, and also helps with the skit. 🙂 Our team wouldn’t be the same without one of these team members! 🙂

At Regionals: We won the Core Values Award and 1st Place for Head-to-Head in our division! It was really exciting because we’ve never made it the far in Head-to-Head before! This tournament we just enjoyed ourselves, cheered our and other teams on, had candy, and we moved on. This was just a really fun tournament!!!!

Here’s a hint when your at a tournament: Just have fun and enjoy yourselves! It’s really fun!

Sectionals was fun! we are moving on to State! We also enjoyed ourselves at this tournament as well! We did not get any awards and we didn’t make it very far in head-to-head this time, but it was really fun!!! 🙂

At State we all had a blast! We made it to the Semi-Finals in head-to-head! We aren’t going to worlds and we didn’t get any awards. But the most important thing is that we had a ton of fun!!!

We will soon have more pictures of the tournaments!

Thank you to all the volunteers who have made all these tournaments possible!! Thank you!!!

Our Problem:

There is a lack of knowledge about what individuals can do on their own to improve water quality!

Our Solution:

We’ve created a fun and easy to play card game to teach people of all ages what they can do on their own to improve water quality!!!

 

 

        Our card game is called ‘Cool Watery Facts!’. If you want, you can print a PDF file and it has instructions on how to print out our card game. Here is the link: https://www.shercofirst.org/CoolWateryFacts.pdf

 

Our first robot was lopsided and not symmetrical. we solved those and other problems that we had in our first bot with our second bot, Firebot!

Our robots name is Firebot. We have 5 missions done and consistent,

We have 2 large motors (the wheels), 1 large motor (attachment motor), and a medium motor. We have 3 sensors: 2 color sensors and 1 gyro sensor. We have a wheels guard that guards the wheels from catching on things and for gliding along the wall. We use some slip on attachments.

  1. We are a team
  2. We do the work to find solutions with guidance from our coaches and mentors
  3. We know our coaches and mentors don’t have all the answers we learn together
  4. We honor the spirit of friendly competition in everything we do
  5. What we discover is more important than what we win
  6. We share our experiences with others
  7. We display gracious professionalism  and coopetition in everything we do
  8. We have fun!!!!