Welcome to our Competition Corner

Storming Robots sponsored one or more teams to participate in the competitions.  All of competitive teams participants are our roboclub members. We have actively participated in the annual FIRST LEGO League since 2005. Starting in 2006, we have had many of our roboclub students participated in various local events. Competitions range from simple line following track to complex robotic soccer.  In 2008, we are looking forward to participate in the RoboCup Junior Event at Bloomsfield College as well.

FLL Competition 2008

Team:  The Green Hawk Regional Event: We were advanced to the State Tournament after being awarded the First Place of the Team Award.   Although we did not manage to achieve the highest score, we were the only team managed to perform the two of the three most complex missions -  lifted up and delivered the heavy drilling module, as well as removing the ice-core module.

Click here to view Pictures of our teams at the regional event...

Team Presentation Clip...coming soon. (need to reduce the file size...)

RoboCup JUnior 2008

Please visit our RCJ page.

FLL Competition 2007

Teams: Falcons (age 11-13): Anurag Anjaria, Dennis Brookner, Michael Cannizzaro, Tristan Duenas, Matthew Goldman, and Morgan Van Blarcum. Metallic Short Circuit Machine (age 10-11):  Julian Frost, Rachel Goldman, Andre Gou, Harry Keats, Roshun Menon and Theo Rabke.

We lost a few weeks of practice due to delivery problems of the fields, and the early time frame for the local event. With the challenge of working with new faces in the teams, and new Mindstorms hardware (NXT instead of RCX), these bright children amazingly managed to get most of the challenges done with only approximately 16-20 hours. 2007 challenge's scoring system is quite complex. We learnt a lot in the process especially in strategic analysis, and teamwork. The MSCM team used RCX. Their bot was equipped with 2 rotation sensors geared down drastically to achieve precision, 1 single rotation click ~= 1.5mm. Wow! Highlights At the second round, the MSCM team's robot malfunctioned and failed to move. At the last 10 seconds, with absolutely no mission achieved, the two programs executors, Rachel and Theo, decided to execute a backup program (the simplest one) which got them 120 poins just by delivering the bot to a strategic point. Unbelievable! We later found out the malfunction was due to a loosen bushing on one of the wheels, and one of the two rotation sensors.

Click here to view Pictures of our teams at the event...

Special appreciation to Tristan's mother, Diane Duena.  She has taken great quality pictures for our teams since 2006.  She also volunteered to burn all the pics onto a CD for each kid in the Falcons Team (Tristan's team). Tristan (residence in Princeton area) has been our roboclub member since Fall 2005.

FLL Competition 2006

Teams: Discovery (age 12-14): Mark Bruggemann, Tristan Duenas, Avery Katko, Matthew Goldman Ryan, Sandor, Caleb Shimomura, Phillips Stankus, and James Wittel. Roboteers (age 9): Brady Beans, Dennis Brookner, Harry Keats, Zach Katz, Matthew Schueler BuckyBot (age 9-11): Alexander Ali, Anthony Ali, Rachael Goldman, Andre Gou, Kevin Kober, Jeffrey Kober, Theo Rabke, Alex Sudyn, and Karlin Yeh Highlights As we are a community group, we could only managed to meet less than 20 hours before the local event.  Nevetheless, they all did wonderful job. Roboteers ranked 2nd in the local event.  BuckyBot ranked 5th in the local event, and 12th in the state event.  Discovery ranked 3rd in the local event, 9th in the state event . There were about 25 teams in the state, while about 45-50 teams in the state event.

Click here to view the pictures of our teams at the event

FLL Competition 2005
FIRST LEGO League Robotics State Tournament held in the Mt. Olive High School on December 10, 2005. Our team name is “Stormbotics”, and consists of eight children aged from 10 to 14 from different townships and schools including home schools, private, and public schools. Team - Stormbotics: Eileen Chow, Matthew Goldman, Gawain Lau, Garrick Lau, Andrew Yuen, Johnny Wang, and James Wittel. Even though this was our first robotics competition, the team ranked the 10th place out of 50 registered teams, with 43 of them attending on the competition day. They have demonstrated great dedication, passion in challenge, and learning, as well as appreciation to such mind sport.
	Highlights We all thought one instance happened in the the teamwork presentation session was rather funny: >Judge: "what is your robot's name?". >Teamsters (looked into each others' eyes and answered with puzzling tone: "... we don't have a name for the robot... it is our robot...".  >Judge: "... didn't you kids have fun doing robotics?..." >Teamsters: "uh... we did have a lot of fun building and programming robots....we just did not bother with a name... "
Pictures...

The 2005 Stormbotics Team	Our team demonstrates the robot's abilites for the judges	Some of our team members presenting our project to more judges
Demonstrating our concepts to the judges		A shot of all the teams competing in the FLL competition
Our team makes a pit stop and repairs the robot	Discussing our strategy	Stormbotics comes together to discuss their plan

Liberty Science Center

Trash Troopers Some of our Trash Trooper Robots	Simulation One of our employees directing a simulation with parents	More Trash Troopers Kids experimenting with the Trash Trooper robots
Trash Trooper demonstration	Lecturing at Liberty Science Center Explaining the abilites of our robots

Notable Creations

This is a robot that searches for a bright light and follows it	Pnematic hand displaying the "ok" sign	Astrobot created by one of our campers
	Another Pnuematic Hand	Our Mini Robot with light sensor This little guy uses a light sensor in the front to determine which way to go.
	Mars Room Table Here is where many of the projects built are tested out on our simulated Mars surface.	A Robot on Mars This little guy likes to run around Mars.

More to come ...!