Attraktiv und Preiswert

Location:

Menden, Germany

Homepage:

http://www.team-wbg.de.vu

Presentation:

“Attraktiv und Preiswert”, that’s our name. The English meaning of that is something like „Attractive and worth the money”. Our team consists of eight pupils and one coach from a grammar school called “Walburgisgymnasium”. Now we want to tell you something about our robot-history of the last year. Almost one year ago we started to work with Lego Mindstorms. We had to program the “Ocean Odyssey” task for a regional competition organized by our federal state NRW. It was a long preparing time, every day at school, because we had to find out how to build the best robot for these tasks. In June 2006 we took part in our first competition and we were very surprised when we got to know that “Attraktiv und Preiswert” won the first competition. Because of that we could take part in the championship of our federal state North Rhine-Westphalia and we did not have to pay the registration fee for the First Lego League. After the summer holidays we started working for the championship. On the one hand we still had a good robot but on the other hand we wanted to improve our robot and our record. On 1st September we travelled to the next competition. Because of not having much luck we could only reach the 2nd place that day. Our next preparing time for the First Lego League competition started on September 15th with the new robot-task. Since then we were at school almost every day to build a robot or to do some research for our presentation. We often rebuilt our robot or changed the way of our presentation but in the end there was a well prepared team with high expectations. On November 18th we went to Paderborn where the regional First Lego League competition took place. It was a very exhausting day because one point of the programme was followed by the next one. At the end of the day we were the winner of the category “Robot-Design” and we were FLL-Champion. Afterwards we had two weeks to organize the travel to Magdeburg. We did not change our robot in this week, but we improved our presentation with a bit more style and an English version of it. We travelled to Magdeburg with the dream of becoming one of the best teams to get the qualification for Norway or Atlanta. With the exception of our robot we were quiet good at that day. Our presentation and our teamwork were nearly perfect and so we could reach one place for the qualification for the FLL OEC in Norway. It was fantastic. Nobody had thought before that we could manage that. Our dream has come true. Everyone was happy about this result and so we could start our Christmas holidays. After relaxing for two weeks we searched sponsors for the competition in Norway. At first it was not so easy but in the end we have found enough sponsors for our travel to Bodø. Now we are looking forward to our biggest challenge!! See you in Bodø!!! Greetings from Germany, Team Attraktiv und Preiswert