Saturday, Jan. 11 – FIRST LEGO League tournament, 8:30 am – 3 pm
Oakland Middle School, 3405 Oakland Place, Columbia MO 65202
Adults and kids are invited to come learn about FIRST robotics programs, watch FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams (ages 9 – 14) compete and see demonstrations of all the other FIRST programs.
FRC team 3792 Army Ants (grades 9 – 12) and FTC team 13032 Ant Colony (grades 7 – 12) team members will be on hand to demonstrate their robots. Laura Roth, FIRST in Missouri Program Delivery Partner will be giving an overview of FIRST programs and demonstrating the FLL Explore (ages 6 – 8) and FLL Discover (ages 3 – 5) materials.
This is a big event – we need lots of volunteers!
Positions include judges, referees, timekeepers, registration, monitoring practice tables and the pit area for trash and other issues, helping with hospitality for judges and referees, concessions, and more.
To sign up, create an account or log in to your account at www.firstinspires.org. After logging in, you can go to the Volunteer tab and find our event, or switch back to this tab and click this direct link to our event: https://my.firstinspires.org/Volunteers/Wizard/Search/2?EventId=71913
July 24 – 26, 2024 on the MU Campus in Columbia
Programmable Robotics Overnight Camp for ages 13 and up
Students stay in dorms and experience life on the MU campus for two days while learning to build and customize AntBot robots. They get to keep the robot when they are done. This camp is a collaboration between MU College of Engineering, CERF and Team 3792 Army Ants.
Cost: $499
Register on the College of Engineering Summer Camps page
Aug. 7 – 9, 2024 day camp in Columbia
Underwater Robotics Camp
Students work with Army Ants team members to build and customize a swimming robot using motors, propellers, PVC pipe and more. They will learn all the skills necessary to assemble and program the robot, then on the last day we take it to the pool to test it out.
Cost: $199
Register on the College of Engineering Summer Camps page
Aug. 6, 2024 FLL Game Reveal Day!
FIRST LEGO League program team at FIRST headquarters reveals the game details for “Submerged”, this season theme for the FLL Challenge robot game and innovation project. This marks the start of the FLL competition season. The Columbia tournament will be on Saturday, January 11, 2025.
See the teaser for the season here: https://info.firstinspires.org/first-dive
January 4, 2025
FIRST Robotics Challenge program (FRC – grades 9 – 12) game reveal day!
This marks the beginning of the FRC competition season. FIRST has a livestream game reveal at 11 am Central time. Teams all over the world start designing their robots that day!
Season info here: https://info.firstinspires.org/first-dive
February 2025 – Date TBA
We will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new youth robotics center in Parkade Plaza and invite sponsors, team families, mentors, and the public to come see our new space!