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STLCC-Florissant Valley Hosts FIRST® Robotics Weekend
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, 3400 Pershall Rd, Saint Louis, MO | Get Directions »
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St Louis Community College – Florissant Valley continues to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs for kids of all ages. The weekend of Dec. 8-9, 2012 will see two major robotics events and over 700 elementary, middle and high school students on campus.
Saturday will be the first of four qualifying events for FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams in Missouri. Thirty-six teams of students in grades 7-12 will compete for a chance to advance to the Missouri FTC Championship at Missouri S&T on Feb. 23, 2013. This year’s game is called Ring It Up!℠. The game challenges teams to build and program robots to traverse a 12x12 field while manipulating plastic rings into scoring positions on racks while avoiding their competitors. Teams have been working on the challenge since September and are eager to see how they perform.
Sunday is the culmination of the FIRST LEGO® League season for Eastern Missouri teams. One hundred and fifty-seven teams competed in the eight qualifying events offered in November. Now the forty advancing teams will gather for the Eastern Missouri FLL Championship event. The teams will run their LEGO MINDSTORMS® robots on the competition table and present their research from the Senior Solutions℠ Challenge.
Visitors are welcome to attend the events. They are FREE and open to the public. Activities will run 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. both days. The activities will be in the gymnasium on campus, 3400 Pershall Road, and FIRST signs will point the way.
For more information about the programs, visit www.stlfirst.org.
Event Details
| Where | St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley 3400 Pershall Rd, Saint Louis, MO 63135 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 9:00 am–4:30 pm |
| Who to bring | Everyone |
| Price | FREE |
More About St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley campus is located on 108 acres on Pershall Road, and offers numerous programs and fields of study for students. The school offers all types of programs, including a specialty in engineering and technology. The school also has a two-year biotechnology program, as well as programs in chemical technology, deaf communications, education, arts, film, writing, business, speech communication and much more. The school has 7,400 students and numerous facilities, including an art gallery, child care center, engineering center, lab areas, workstations, drama theater and more. The school also offers numerous clubs and extracurricular activities, including the biotech club, black student association, campus ministry, comic book club, fine arts club, college Democrats, international club, mass communications club and many more. Check the main site for a full list of clubs or facilities or for details on degree programs or enrollment.
