FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is a robotics program for 9 to 14 year old students and is designed to get children excited about science and technology and teach them valuable employment and life skills. Teams, composed of up to ten children with at least one adult coach, program an autonomous robot using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robot set. The purpose is to create an innovative solution to a real life problem, score points on a thematic playing surface and do all this while guided by the FLL Core Values. The official FLL tournament in our area is held at SUNY IT in early December each year. Designed for teachers interested in coaching a FIRST LEGO League robotics team for the 2012-13 competition season, this workshop series will cover various aspects of facilitating an FLL team in your district. The series will include three full day face-to-face workshops in addition to a number of webinars.

Dates, Times, Locations
All events will be held at the Costello Transportation Center|Conference Room 300 Freedom Drive, Oneida, NY 13478 or via webinar on the following dates:

May 8th, 2012 | 9:00am - 3:00pm
May 22nd, 2012 | 9:00am - 3:00pm
June 5th, 2012 | 9:00am - 3:00pm

To register, click here.

South Jefferson Central School will offer its annual hatching project to area school districts. We will be hatching ducks, geese, turkeys and chicks. Students will interactively attend 3 lessons during this incubation period. We will match your classroom up with a flock friend classroom from our district. These flock friend classrooms will interact during the incubation period.

• May 8, 9, 10, 14: Lesson #1, Introduction to Hatching/Incubating 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. every 1/2 hour
  
• May 15, 16, 17,21: Lesson #2,  Parts of An Egg, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. every 1/2 hour
• May 22, 23, 24, 29: Lesson #3, Life Cycle of a Chicken 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. every 1/2 hour
• May 30 & 31:  Lesson #4, Watch hatching in incubator, check out our hatchlings, talk about differences, view hatchlings in pool 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m every 1/2 hour
  

For more information, click here. To register, contact Patti Siegenthaler at (315) 361-2700.