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November 5, 2007

Flying Geeks Gold Research Project

Hello all,
Our research project this year is based on either conserving energy or switching to renewable energy resources. The Flying Geeks teams (Gold and Green) are both focusing on short term energy conservation in our school in addition to researching and suggesting long term solutions to be incorporated into our new school.
While researching the lighting [...]

November 5, 2007

2007 Flying Geeks

Sorry for not updating the Blog for a while – it’s been very busy.
The NCA Lego Robotics team has split into two teams for the 2007 season due to the addition of new students.
On the Gold team, we have Coaches Randy Bohannan , Jim Knittel, and Larry Gray along with the following students:  Kelsey Seremet, Jon Knittel, [...]

May 20, 2007

The Competition is over!

Well, we finished out the day in our typically dramatic style. 
Going into the last round, we needed to score above a 390 (out of 400) to make it into the playoffs.  We scored a 394.  Basically everything worked with the exception of three small dirt pieces falling out of the dumpster.
In the Quarter-Finals, we had [...]

May 17, 2007

Days 5 and 6 in Bodo, Norway

Sorry folks, I’m having a little difficulty getting things to post correctly, I’ll keep trying…
 We’vem now been Bodo for two whole days.  It’s been very exciting as we’ve been able to meet face to face with some of the teams we’ve been reading about and conversing via email with.
Yesterday we were able to go on [...]

May 10, 2007

Excited? Yes!

As you can imagine I’m pretty excited about going to Norway!

May 10, 2007

And They’re Off! NCA Flying Geeks Leaving for Norway

Excitement abounds as our own NCA Flying Geeks prepare to fly to Bodo, Norway to compete in the 2007 European Championship on May 19th & 20th.
The Geeks competed in Worcester Mass. this past Saturday, May 5th and submitted a compelling win there. This was their last competition before changing focus to preparing and packing for [...]