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| Keywords: FIRST LEGO League Kickoff DVIDS702298.jpg en Randall Hicks right Jacobs Technology's Education Services manager at NASA John C Stennis Space Center answers questions about the playing field for FIRST For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology LEGO League's 2007 Challenge `Power Puzzle ' More than 140 teachers mentors parents and students from 15 schools attended the Sept 15 FLL season kickoff at StenniSphere the visitor center at SSC The teams from southern and central Mississippi and Mobile Ala who came to SSC heard rules for and asked questions about `Power Puzzle ' and saw robot demonstrations by Gulfport and Picayune high schools' past FIRST Robotics competitions Using LEGO Mindstorms NXT kits FLL teams of children ages 9-14 will spend the next three months building and programming robots to perform 'Power Puzzle's' challenge tasks then pit them in competitions They also will submit a research project about how energy choices impact the environment and the economy The season will culminate at the Mississippi Championship Tournament on Dec 8 at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College FLL considered the `little league' of the FIRST Robotics Competition partners FIRST and the LEGO Group Competitions aim to inspire and celebrate science and technology using real-world context and hands-on experimentation NASA recognizes FIRST activities as an excellent hands-on method to increase student knowledge of science engineering technology and mathematics Schools represented in this year's kickoff were Madison Avenue Upper Elementary the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' Conehatta Elementary Hattiesburg's Lillie Burney Elementary Pearl Upper Elementary Long Beach Middle Oktibehha Elementary d'Iberville Middle Saucier's West Wortham Middle Picayune's Nicholson Elementary and Roseland Park Baptist Church Academy Bay St Louis' St Stanislaus College and Mobile's Davidson High as well as two home-school groups from the Jackson area NASA Identifier SSC-2007-02814 2009-08-27 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/702298 702298 2012-10-10 15 04 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Images from US Navy location JOHN C STENNIS SPACE CENTER Miss Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
