Team 4763:
Lightning Strikes Twice!

Brighton, NY

FIRST Lego League

(photo: the 2007 team)

About Us

We formed our FIRST Lego League team, the Flightless Chickens, in Fall 2008, with members from French Road Elementary School in Brighton, NY. In Fall 2009, the team changed its name to Lightning Strikes Twice. We are sponsored by our parents, and meet once every week (and sometimes on weekends!) at the home of our team coach, Henry Kautz.

At the Finger Lakes FLL qualifying tournament (Nov 17, 2007) we won the Judges Award for how well everyone participated in the technical presentation. At the Regional Tournament (Dec 9, 2007) we won the Against All Odds award: right before our 3rd trial, our robot was accidently smashed apart. None the less, we got it re-assembled (a bit crooked!) and finished the tournament. For our "energy audit" project we learned about energy use at the town hall and library.

Presentation

Click here for a Powerpoint presentation about how to start and run a FIRST Lego League team.

Photographs

2007 Team photo, medium resolution, for viewing on a computer screen
2007 Team photo, high resolution, for printing
2007 Gallery of photos from our meeting and the tournaments

Documents

2008 Challenge: Climate Connections
2008 Calendar
Building instructions for a 4-wheel drive robot base, and the Digital Designer file (adapted from NXTCentral.com)
Team Roster (password protected)
Team Medical and Liability Release Form
Tournament Liability release form

General Information

FLL Links

Finger Lake FIRST home: http://www.firstrochester.org/
USA FIRST home: http://www.usfirst.org/
FIRST Lego League home: http://www.firstlegoleague.org
Penfield High School FIRST home: http://www.penfieldrobotics.com
LEGO Mindstorms home: http://mindstorms.lego.com/
techbrick.com, a site by an FLL team in Maryland that has lots of useful information

FLL and Mindstorms YouTube Videos

go to www.henrykautz.org

Team 4763: Lightning Strikes Twice!