New FLL Team is All Charged Up for the FIRST Lego League 2011 Food Factor Challenge
All Charged Up, a new FIRST© Lego League team from Chickahominy Middle School, is preparing for the First Lego League 2011 challenge, Food Factor. In this year’s challenge released September 2nd, teams are researching the preservation of food and developing new methods that prevent spoiling. Like all FIRST competitions, the middle schoolers will also program robots to solve real-world problems.
Flexicell employees featured in VirginiaFIRST Video
VirginiaFIRST is Virginia’s chapter of FIRST, the host of the robotics competition for kids grades K-12. In a video titled “A View From All Sides”, students and mentors talk about how FIRST has helped them grow and learn. This is an organization that Flexicell is proud to be a part of. Allen Bancroft, our Information Logistics Director, discusses how mentors and students interact by working…
Flexicell-sponsored Blue Cheese Robotics wins another regional competition in the FRC!
The Flexicell-sponsored Blue Cheese Robotics team (#1086) won the Virginia Regional of the FIRST Robotics Competition! The competition took place at the VCU Siegel Center on March 18-20, 2010. Team 1086 also received the Engineering Inspiration Award. This award “celebrates a team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school as well as their community”1. Congratulations, Blue Cheese!…
Flexicell-Sponsored FIRST Lego League “Tobor Fanatics” Wins Norfolk Regional Championship, VA. “Mechanicsville Mechanics” Also Advance.
The Flexicell-sponsored Tobor Fanatics won the Norfolk Regional competition of the FIRST Robotics Lego League, taking the titles of: Division 1 Championship 1st Place in Robot Design The regional competition was held Saturday, November 22, 2009 in Norfolk, Virginia. For the Division 1 Championship, the Tobor Fanatics scored 280 in the practice round, 1,270 in competition Round One, 1,270 in Round Two, and 280 in…
Flexicell Sponsors Two Local LEGO Leagues in the FIRST Robotics Competition
For the first time, Ashland, VA-based robotic system integrator Flexicell will sponsor FIRST Robotics teams at the LEGO level. The LEGO League level is comprised of elementary and/or middle school students grades 4-8 (ages 9-14) as an introduction contest to the more intricate FIRST Robotics competitions held by high school teams around the globe. For 2009, Flexicell will be sponsoring the Mechanicsville Mechanics and the…
Flexicell-Sponsored VirginiaFIRST Wins Richmond Technology Award
VirginiaFIRST, a nonprofit group organized to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology, received the Greater Richmond Technology Council’s Chairman’s Award. The award goes to an individual or organization that has made a significant impact on the growth of technology in the region. Awards were given out at the May 13, 2009 banquet. Flexicell is a sponsor of VirginiaFIRST, which is part…
Deep Run High School Wins International Honor in 2009 FIRST Robotics World Championship Finals
Ashland, VA…March 25, 2009…Deep Run High School, Team 1086 known as “Blue Cheese,” beat out all 346 other competing teams at the FIRST Robotics World Championship Finals to win the Chrysler Team Spirit Award. This award is one of the special recognitions, and celebrates the team that best exemplifies extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork. It is the first international award won…
Flexicell Sponsors Second-Time Winners in 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition, NASA/VCU Regional Challenge. Flexicell-sponsored teams take 5 out of the last 5 regional challenges. Connor Clark the “winning-est” coach.
Hans de Koning, president of Flexicell, Inc., an Ashland, VA-based robotic system integrator, is proud to announce that Flexicell-sponsored local robotics teams–Deep Run High School and J.R. Tucker High School–again swept the major awards in the annual FIRST Robotics Competition NASA/VCU Regional Challenge, held March 19-21, 2009 at the Siegel Center on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, VA. This challenge was one of…