Bedford Express FIRST Robotics Team 1023

Junior FIRST Lego League was founded in 2004 by Dean Kamen to introduce 1^st-3^rd graders to science, technology, and ,of course, FIRST Robotics. Each year JFLL teams are given a challenge, usually similar to the FLL challenge, which they have to research a small part of a big topic for example; snack foods or medical supplies.   They build a model which is all built out of legos and this year they even got to program it. The programming was a basic this box spins the motor this way and that, but it was a great introduction to young programmers.  The other part of JFLL is the Show Me Poster, this is basically a display board of what they learned, how learned it, what they did, who they talked to, and a little information about themselves. Last year our JFLL team, the Smith Road Stingers,  were invited and attended the JFLL expo in St.Louis! Which got us featured on the JFLL page on the FIRST site.

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Bedford Express coaches, mentors and sponsors FOUR Bedford Public Schools Junior FIRST Lego League.  This is our second year and we have grown from 2 teams to 4 teams!  Photographs courtesy of Michelle German, GSK Photography!

2011 Season

Schedule: Every Tuesday at 6:30-8:00, September through December

Engineering All Stars:   

Coach: Chris Sommers   (BX Senior, 2nd year coaching)     

Bedford Robotic Mules:

Coach: Bekah May (BX Junior, 2nd year coaching)

Epic Penguins(TRE):

Coach: Shelby Beavers(BX Senior, 1st year coaching)

Robo Koalas:

  Coach: Kailey Doherty (BX Junior, 1st year coaching)

JFLL

[look for the Smith Road Stingers BX's first ever JFLL team featured on the page. It's picture #6 :)]