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CURRICULUM VITÆ
Personal Interest: First™ Lego® League (FLL)
This International program allows children, ages 9 through 14, a chance to use math and science all while playing with LEGO's®. Teams of 10 or less create an autonomous robot using LEGO®Mindstorms Robotics kits as their main parts source. This robot has to maneuver about a 4'x 8' table, performing tasks for points, in a finite period of time. Each September, a "Challenge" is released from FIRST. (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). This challenge consists of a topic that will describe what the robot will need to do, as well as a project that the team needs to research. At a tournament, teams are judged in several areas. These include Teamwork, Innovative design, Robust design, Programming, Robot Performance, and Research, just to name a few.
In 2000, I learned about this program while visiting the FIRST High School Robotics competition that year in Kissimmee Florida. I introduced the FLL program to Prairie Vista Elementary in Granger, and coordinated 5 teams of 8 children per team. The goal was to participate in the FLL tournament held at Purdue University in Ft. Wayne, IN that December. (Prairie Vista teams took home 5 trophies!)
One of the many parents that I had the pleasure of meeting from the first year at Prairie Vista Elementary was Dr. Wolfgang Porod. He invited me to a meeting that would discuss funding possibilities so that the University of Notre Dame could host an FLL tournament for that year. Once the funding was available, I was asked by Dr. Porod to help coordinate the event. On December 2nd, 2001, Notre Dame hosted its first FLL tournament. It was very successful, hosting 30
teams from many areas of Indiana. (This was the series of events that brought me to the Nano Center at Notre Dame. Jan.2002 - June 2006) In December 2006, Notre Dame held its sixth FLL tournament, Nano Quest. After several years of communications with FIRST, we were proud to have been a part of the planning for This international program. For more information, go to www.nd.edu/~fll.
Due to my involvement with the FLL program, in 2001, I was asked to be a board member of the Penn Harris Madison Education Foundation. This organization raises money to fund programs, activities, etc. to the PHM schools. I happily accepted this position which allowed me to not only spread the word about this wonderful program, but get funding granted to school teams as well. In the Fall of 2004 I became President of the Board, continuing to be a part of helping fund worthwhile projects within the PHM district. I was proud to be part of this organization. Due to circumstances I needed to resign from being an active member early in 2007.
Matt's Germany Pictures June 2007
Cait's Prom Pictures May 2007
REU Party, July 2006
Caitlyn singing Houdie Christus( mp3 file)
REU Party, July 2005
Penn High School Choral Concert 12/04
Washington DC, Cait and Me
Shook house December 2003
Porod Student party at the Osmer's 7/03
Florida vacation 2003
Joint Lecture Series PDF file
Adam Wolf's Confirmation 2003
Windsurfing Lessons summer 2002
Heston 2002
Summer party 2002
Scuba qualifying dive, and other stuff
