On Thursday, February 9th we had a very successful scrimmage. The Central League is small, because we had only four team compete. However, I believe we had a quality showing by our kids. Great Job! A couple more weeks until state.

Central SD US FIRST Lego League

2011-12 Season Calendar

Local events in green.  Optional statewide events in black.

Date	Time	Location	Event	Notes
Anytime – takes about 45min – 1 hour.		SD Discovery Center	Core Values Judging	Formerly known as “teamwork”.  Call Kristie when you want to have a practice judging for your team.
Sat. Nov. 5	9-11am	Axtell Park Middle School, SF	Open Practice	Register at FLL website – events.
Thursday, Dec. 1	6:30pm	Pierre Mall (unconfirmed)	Robot Game Scrimmage	Teams compete & judged on performance on field and engineering design.  Prizes awarded.
Sat. Dec. 3	9-11am	Whittier Middle School, SF	Open Practice	Register at FLL website – events.
Christmas Break (or anytime in Dec.)	Teams schedule by calling Kristie Maher, 224-8295.	SD Discovery Center	Informal judging	Teams may call to request a time to be judged on the presentation.
Sat. Jan. 14	9-11am	Memorial Middle School, SF	Open Practice	Register at FLL website – events.
Monday, January 16, 2012	9:30am - TBA	TBA	Full Scrimmage	Prizes for all aspects of the competition will be awarded.
Sat. Jan. 28	9-11am	Memorial Middle School, SF	Open Practice	Register at FLL website – events.
Saturday, Feb. 25	9am to 4pm (estimate)	Augustana University, SF	SD Robotics  Association State Tournament	Official STATE competition – winners go to nationals. Register at FLL website – event.  Kristie has funds to pay your registration fee.
Apr. 27 – 30	TBA	St. Louis, MO	World Festival	State Winner participates.

We will miss you Dan Swets.

On Friday, December 9,2011 Dr. Dan Swets and three others were killed in a small plane crash in Sioux Falls.

Gracious Professionalism

What does gracious professionalism mean to you?

Tentative Schedule for Central League

Tuesday, Aug. 31 7pm Coaches meeting




Friday, Sept. 3 Official season kick-off - no local event but encourage your team members to check out the website that day.



Saturday, Sept 25 9am - 11am Team Rally - can include introduction of teams, teamwork challenge with prizes, US First Team quiz w/ prizes(just to see how familiar teams are with rules, lingo, related to this competition), mini sessions (1/2 hour) for parents, coaches, team members, team chant rally to close.



Thurs. Oct. 7 - Space Day Team Share (plus as a demo for public) Teams just show where they are thus far in field challenge. Stay for astronaut talk afterwards. (I'll try to get lego teams a private mtg with astronaut to discuss bioengineering and robotics related to space exploration.)



Thurs. Oct. 28 (9am - 10:30) Team Share - Teams show up - share whatever work they want feedback on - plus some experts give talks on bioengineering, mechanics or other.



Nov. 11 or 13 (no school on 11th) Field challenge and engineering scrimmage w/ prizes - Will be handled as much like the state tourney as possible. With speaker to speak while judging is tallied.



Nov. 20 Informal Scrimmage at Augustana College in Sioux Falls. Teams can participate or watch. Optional.



Dec. 9 or 11 Presentations Scrimmage with prizes. Some kind of pep rally for state tourney.



Christmas break - SD Discovery Center staff could offer sometime to to judge or support individual teams to shine up their presentations or other aspects of the competion on a by appointment basis.



January 15 - State Tournament, Sioux Falls. Central Baptist Church - all teams are welcome to compete. Highly encouraged. We have paid for your registration - this is the only formal competition available. Please plan to compete.

Welcome!

We are excited to start a new year of the FIRST Lego League in Central South Dakota. We have set up this blog to assist coachs, parents, and students communicate and assist each other. I hope you have a great year. Thank you,
Ray Tracy