{"id":17219,"date":"2018-12-12T18:33:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2018-12-12T19:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:38:38","slug":"fll-2018-our-final-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=17219","title":{"rendered":"FLL 2018 &#8211; Our final competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Lex&#8217;s final year in FIRST Lego League.\u00a0 The program runs through 8th grade, then they are able to move on to FIRST Robotics (no Legos, lots of machining and Java programming).<\/p>\n<p>I coached again this year and we again had three teams, with 27 kids total.\u00a0 We went to the state competition on Sunday.\u00a0 It was the usual big, crazy, busy, 12hr day.\u00a0 We had a blast.\u00a0 This year the teams brought home two trophies too!\u00a0 Green team earned one for their research and Red team (the team Lex was on) won one for their innovate robot design. Lex was pretty instrumental in that.\u00a0 I was happy for him to have that accomplishment on his final year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17216\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_0938358800379514419857901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17216\" class=\"wp-image-17216 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_0938358800379514419857901-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_0938358800379514419857901-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_0938358800379514419857901-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_0938358800379514419857901-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_0938358800379514419857901-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_0938358800379514419857901.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The robot design presentation where they show their robot, their code, and their favorite missions.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17213\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1124042323984577473031464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17213\" class=\"wp-image-17213 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1124042323984577473031464-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1124042323984577473031464-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1124042323984577473031464-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1124042323984577473031464-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1124042323984577473031464.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project presentation. Red team chose to figure out an innovative way to feed people in space.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17215\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1602181411389032573531337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17215\" class=\"wp-image-17215 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1602181411389032573531337-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1602181411389032573531337-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1602181411389032573531337-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1602181411389032573531337-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1602181411389032573531337-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_20181209_1602181411389032573531337.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very happy Red team (with two equally happy tag-along little brothers).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with how well the season went, how organized we were at the tech center, how many kids had a great time, how well Lex connected with another kid on the team, and overall how we&#8217;ve grown the FLL team in Hartford.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll miss it next year&#8230; but not enough to coach again! LOL!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you want an awwwww moment, check out little <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=12658\">Lex at his first FLL competition<\/a>.\u00a0 &lt;3 &lt;3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FLL-Then-Now.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17221\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FLL-Then-Now-500x357.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FLL-Then-Now-500x357.png 500w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FLL-Then-Now-420x300.png 420w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FLL-Then-Now.png 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Lex&#8217;s final year in FIRST Lego League.\u00a0 The program runs through 8th grade, then they are able to move on to FIRST Robotics (no Legos, lots of machining and Java programming). I coached again this year and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=17219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,20],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-legos","tag-lex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17223,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions\/17223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}