We Are the Vulcabotz!

Hi, we are the Vulcabotz, team # 683. We are competing in the NYC Regional FIRST LEGO League for the 2013-14 season - Nature’s Fury. As you might have guessed from our name, we are focusing on the natural disaster - Volcanoes. Here is a little summary about our team.

A four-year veteran of the First Lego League, Corban is the most experienced (besides Coach Greene) of all the Vulcabotz , a four-person team. He is a seventh grader who is currently attending Hunter College High School. He is 12 years old and loves math, art, Latin, science, and physical education. He has many hobbies, some including hiking, reading, and creating different things. He first joined a First Lego League robotics team because he loves building and programming robots. In addition to learning about teamwork and compromising, he loves the idea of creating an innovation that is better than what is actually out in the virtual world. This year, Corban strives to win 1st place Championship Award at the FIRST LEGO League tournament and complete his dream of being on the team that is the best in the FLL in the entire NYC.  

Joshua is the second most experienced with the First Lego League, as this is his second year on a team. He is in seventh grade and attends M.S. 67Q. He is 12 years old and loves Science Olympiads, math, and social studies. His dream job would be either as a Space Engineer of an Aircraft Designer, since he enjoys designing flying machinery. Some of his hobbies are basketball, swimming, biking, and running. He also enjoys playing Beyblade, playing pranks and practical jokes on his friends, and sewing. He also enjoys playing games that require strategic gameplay, and logic, such as Chess. He loves these types of games, because they are almost never the same. He decided to first join a FIRST LEGO League team, because he thought it would be a good idea to learn how to work with others, robots, and also, it would be fun! 

Ankith is the third most experienced of the Vulcabotz. He is 12 years old and attends the same school as Joshua, M.S. 67Q. He is in seventh grade and enjoys math, science, social studies, and robotics. He would like to become a doctor when he grows up. His favorite hobby is computer programming. He knows BASIC language programming, NXT-G, and is learning JAVA. His favorite things to do are sports and programming computers. During the summer, he went to two LEGO Robotics Camps and learned how to program and control NXT Robots. He joined our LEGO robotics team, because he wants to put his NXT Experience to good use. 

Finally, the oldest person on the Vulcabotz is Matt. The only experience with LEGO he has is playing and building with then in his basement. He has been creating his own original sets, such as Tony Stark’s Lab from Iron Man 3, and a Ninja Dojo for his Ninjago minifigures to train in. For his large scale LEGO projects, he uses LEGO Digital Designer software on his computer, since he doesn’t have enough pieces, yet. He is 13 years old and is in eighth grade. He attends New Hyde Park Memorial High School and loves architecture, social studies, and orchestra (Matt plays the cello). When he grows up, Matt would like to be an author and/or a comic artist for DC Comics. At school, he runs on the track team and does the 100-meter dash only, since he has really bad asthma. Some other sports he enjoys are table tennis and archery. His favorite hobbies are reading (books and comics), drawing superheroes (real and original ones), writing his book, and playing with LEGO. He joined a LEGO robotics team, because he is friends with Joshua, who asked him if he wanted to come. Matt agreed to come because he loves LEGO building and wanted the opportunity to work with the LEGO Mindstorms Robotics kit.