"The problem to be solved was much harder this year than it was last year. I think that they are raising the bar as time goes on to weed out the field."

Netropole continues to support the development of young minds in Portland, and salutes their efforts in this challenging competition.

For more information on the FLL go to the LEGO site at http://www.firstlegoleague.org. For information on the Oregon competition, see the ORTOP site at http://www.ortop.org

Team Polar Force 2001

Members of Team Polar Force were the proud recipients of a First Place trophy in the "Most Creative Design" category at the 2001 First Lego League competition.

Developed in collaboration with the LEGO Company, FLL is a Robotics Tournament for children ages 9-14 that combines hands-on, minds-on challenges with a sports-like atmosphere using the LEGO MINDSTORMS Technology. Teams consist of up to 10 players with the focus on team building, creative problem solving, and analytical thinking. Teams face an annual Challenge emulating a real world event or situation and must research, plan, build, program and test a fully autonomous robot capable of accomplishing the Challenge. Teams have 8 weeks to complete their robots and can then proceed to a local or state level competition with their team. At tournaments teams will present their accomplishments in 3 different areas: Robot Performance, Technical Quality, and Presentation of Research and Hypothesis related to the Challenge Theme.

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