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Livingston Robotics Club

Livingston Robotics Club is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Livingston Robotics Club rather than just read about it. In short: Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) is a robotics club in Livingston, New Jersey, US, that provides a community network to introduce Livingston area youth to robotics design and real-life science research, consistent with the concept of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). LRC member teams have won state, national, and international FIRST LEGO League (FLL) competitions.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) is a robotics club in Livingston, New Jersey, US, that provides a community network to introduce Livingston area youth to robotics design and real-life science research, consistent with the concept of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). LRC member teams have won state, national, and international FIRST LEGO League (FLL) competitions.

History The initiative to form a robotics club in Livingston was conceived when a team called Landroids was formed in 2007 to compete in FIRST LEGO League. LRC was formed with one team during 2007-2008 seasons. With Landroids' success in that season, LRC gained wider recognition especially in the local community. It later became a member of Healthy Community Healthy Youth Initiative of Livingston – a non-profit community organization with a goal to enhance the lives of children in Livingston – in order to promote its expansion and to become eligible to receive corporate sponsorships.

Member Teams

LRC encourages forming new teams in the community. It has provided guidance and resources for starting robotics team. There were four teams in LRC during 2008-2009 season, expanded to 17 teams throughout NJ from Jr. FLL to FTC divisions, with more than 100 students and two dozen parent coaches in the 2011-2012 season.

Landroids Landroids was formed in August 2007 by six 6th and 5th grade students from Livingston New Jersey area, and their parents. Originally registered under the name of Lancer Robotics Club following Livingston’s tradition to name teams in the town as Lancer, it was later formalized as "Livingston Robotics Club" at the end of 2007. Landroids is led by John Yeh for robotics design and Pearl Hwang in project research and jugding. Landroids is considered the founding team of Livingston Robotics Club (LRC), instrumental in promoting the FIRST to general public in New Jersey and worldwide. Landroids has received many top national and international awards since its formation, including two times NJ State FIRST LEGO League (FLL) 1st place Champion's Awards in 2007, 2008; 2nd and 3rd place awards in Robot Design and Robot Performance in the 2008 FIRST Championship; 1st place Championship's Award and Founder's Award at the 2009 FIRST LEGO League U.S. Open Championship – the highest award for FLL open championship in the United States; 1st place National 8th grade award from the US Army sponsored eCybermission for the team's science research in 2010; 1st place NJ State eCYBERMISSION award in 2011. In 2010, the team also took 1st place in the international Google X-PRIZE LEGO Mindstorms sponsored MoonBots competition and was invited by LEGO Group to visit Denmark as their grand prize MoonBots award. Landroids members had also compiled and conducted a 5-week long FLL orientation in a "kids teaching kids" format to mentor eight new FLL teams throughout NJ during the summer of 2009. This PowerPoint presentation was later translated to Thai in its entirety for Thailand to startup its FLL participation in its country during the 2009-2010 season. The team hosts annual robotics exhibitions at Liberty Science Center with top FIRST LEGO League teams since 2008 on President's Day during Engineers Week. The Liberty Science Center exhibition was expanded to include Jr. FIRST LEGO League in 2009, added FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams in 2010, and FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in 2012. In September 2010, at age 14, Landroids moved up to the FIRST Tech Challenge high school division, continued to participate in various science and robotics competitions and built on its high performance record. Even in its rookie FTC season, Landroids took home the Delaware State Championship FTC Inspire Award and the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award from the FTC World Championship in 2011. In 2012, the team won the NJ State Inspire Award, then went on to earn the highest honor, the Inspire Award, at the FTC World Championship in St. Louis, secured a permanent spot in the FTC Hall of Fame. The team also remain the only undefeated team throughout the qualifying rounds at the Worlds, received the Division Winning Alliance Captain and World Finalist Alliance Captain Awards.

SciBoTechs SciBoTechs was competitive FLL team founded in 2008 by Dr. Po-Shing Lee, and led by Michelle Weis and Janice Pepper in 2009. The team consists of six team members from the age of 12 to 14 years of age. The team received intense training in project research, robot design and performance, and teamwork. In the 2008 season, SciBoTechs received the first place award in the Research Project at 2008 qualifying tournament in [Hamilton, NJ], and the second place for their research project in states (Mt. Olive). In 2009, the SciBoTechs won the Judge's Award at the Montclair qualifying tournament. The FLL team became inactive in 2010 as the members aged out and entered high school. Some of the members of SciBoTechs joined the Livingston High School FIRST Tech Challenge robotics teams, Lancers.

Landrias Landrias is an all-girls team started in 2008 with some team members as siblings of team Landroids and SciBoTechs. Landrias was jointly trained by John Yeh (robot) and Dr. Po-Shing Lee (project) in 2008 and 2010; and Pearl Hwang as the project coach in 2009. Landrias has received the Robot Design Award at 2008 qualifying tournament in Montclair, a 2nd place Robot Design Award at the NJ state tournament in 2008, a Champion's Award at the 2009 qualifying tournament in Montclair, a Champion's Award and 2nd place Robot Performance Award at the 2010 Bergen qualifying tournament. Landrias' mission is to provide hands-on building and programming skills to young girls, while creating a bonding experience for the girls to learn about science and play together.

Livingston Alpha Force Livingston Alpha Force is the last team that was formed in 2008 with three members range in age from 8 to 12 years with Janea and Jojo Agbayani as coaches. The team's focus is for recreation and training about science, building with LEGOs, and to start to focus on programming.

Others Four additional teams were formed at the start of 2009-2010 season. The first team is r2d2 which comprises six 4th grade boys. Soon followed were Thunderclan, Technophiles, Alpha Force and Supreme Machines. The Spongebots, the only Jr.FLL team in 2009, kicked started the LRC Jr. FLL divisions with a total of 6 LRC Jr. FLL teams in 2010.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Livingston Robotics Club

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Livingston Robotics Club claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Livingston Robotics Club before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Livingston Robotics Club ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Livingston Robotics Club

In research: Livingston Robotics Club appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Livingston Robotics Club in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Livingston Robotics Club is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American organizations established in 2007, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, Livingston, New Jersey, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Livingston Robotics Club outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Livingston Robotics Club in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Livingston Robotics Club means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Livingston Robotics Club matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Livingston Robotics Club?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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