This event has been postponed til the end of the year. Updates COMING SOON!
THE ROBODANCE 2009 CD IS READY!
Please feel free to pop into iSHOP and grab a CD from the DJ console right in the middle of iSHOP.
Check out www.djsunity.com for the great work done by our DJ master, DJan! 80 minutes worth of music. Downloadable as a single track if you prefer to dance none stop.
Announcing a new look for this web page Definitely more Merry for this season. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday!
Special offers for educators
AWOWO DRUMS (see YouTube video). No longer is drumming a noisy affair, use headphones with these babies if you desire! Teach beats and rhythms in digital style.
MacBook and iPod Touch. When you purchase at full price through us together with a few friends, we can throw in a free session about how to use these well for teaching.
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Kits. Contact us for more information. If you can purchase more than 1 set, you can save around $20 or more from the market price of S$479, depending on the number of kits purchased!
LEGO Education packages come with our lessons. If you are keen about any special LEGO Education kit, you will find that it is good to sign up for our lessons that come with that kit. Introductory training and consultation can provide you with the knowledge to educate your own kids! So do not hesitate. Contact us to find out more!
Professional Development takes a technological spin. Join our 'For Professional' series of robotic courses and you may find yourself finding more and more ideas for using technology in class, specifically robotic technology.
BAK2U software for your phones and notebooks. If you ever wondered about how to recover your stolen or lost hardware, this will be your best help ever!
RoboDance 2008 RoboDance completed successfully. Award winners are listed already. Watch this RoboDance page these few days for more updates of photos, video clips and more. The organizers will like to thank the 134+ people present, participating, volunteering, organizing, judging and even the audience who came to support all these students. Thank you everyone for making this a success. Next year, we'll see you all again in the first week of June holidays 2009.
NEW Holiday Courses (HOLIDAY SPECIALS) RoboVideo, RoboCamp (8th-10th Dec 11am-7pm), the popular weekly ELPMIS NeXT ZERO (every Saturday 1pm-3pm). See our 'For Public' page.
New demonstration lined up during RoboDance 2008! See our home grown roboticist demonstrate their robot. Direct from NUS. Check out their site: http://evolverobotics.blogspot.com/, http://www.vadakkepat.com/. Tentative. Waiting for approval from the Professor. Looks cool anyway, so visit their site!
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Posters - Did You Know series Download DidYouKnow001.pdf. Great for putting on walls in robotic club rooms.
Our Mr John Tan is in the papers If anyone missed it this week, on Straits Times' Digital Life. Not much about robotics, just that John demonstrated how robots could be programmed with open source languages like C, Java, Assembly Language, and even more.
RoboDance is expanding! There will be more events run in conjunctions with RoboDance 2008. Watch the RoboDance page . Includes Rescue and Soccer now. Will be exciting!
RoboDance has MDA's support! (Media Development Authority) MDA has also kindly sponsored gifts and souvenirs for the participants and schools. Also, visit the RoboDance page on the left menu to find that if your school is working with our listed partners and friends, you can get discounts on the registration fee.
RoboDance page is live See menu on left for 'RoboDance' page RoboDance! On 12 November 2008, there is a unique event coming up. Watch a professional DJ jamming with dancing robots together on stage!
The event is called RoboDance@iSHOP. It requires teams to submit a short video clip of their performance back in school, and ultimately get these clips displayed online and in iSHOP. The best ones will be invited to perform in public, in front of live audience and judges to clinch the grand award.
There is a whole Science and career path behind DJs in the music industry, way beyond the night scenes only. Participants will appreciate segments of music theory, how to match beats (bpm), ensuring octaves match, and of course learn to scratch discs and mix musical tracks.
Robots break dancing is already exciting enough, and further watching some students becoming DJs to add in music, plus throw in a few more break dancers, and you will have a great party, not just a competition.
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FIRST LEGO League
Heartware Network is the new organiser of the FIRST LEGO League
The FIRST logo is a registered trademark of the FIRST organisation www.usfirst.org.
LEGO and MINDSTORMS are registered trademarks of The LEGO Group.
Testimonials -- "John is good.", Mr Joseph Tan, Educator. -- After our training for her students completed conclusively..."Mr Yap is a dedicated trainer who goes out of his way to help the school and students whenever he can.He seems to work non stop, even on weekends to ensure the students do not lose out on anything.The boys are indeed indebted to you for your guidance...", Educator, Mdm Goi. --
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FLL Asia-Pacific Conference July 25th-27th 2007 Shanghai.
Elpmis supports the Software Freedom Day. 20th September 2008. Singapore Management University, SMU. Level 5. 10am to 5pm. Do you want to see how your regular robots can be programmed with a powerful open source language like C?
Visit the Software Freedom Day, and you will even learn that there are so many other softwares out there for your use! There is no need for software piracy when there are so many open source softwares on the internet for you and your people. Come, bring your thumbdrive, and you can even bring some free CDs back.
This is a great extract from www.usfirst.org: FIRST works closely with research and academic organizations to provide tangible evidence of our impact on students’ education and career choices.
Brandeis University Study
FIRST Robotics Competition
Recently, Brandeis University’s Center for Youth and Communities conducted an independent, retrospective survey of FIRST Robotics Competition participants and compared results to a group of non-FIRST students with similar backgrounds and academic experiences, including math and science. Highlights of the study’s findings include:
When compared with the comparison group, FIRST students are:
More than 3 times as likely to major specifically in engineering.
Roughly 10 times as likely to have had an apprenticeship, internship, or co-op job in their freshman year.
Significantly more likely to expect to achieve a post graduate degree.
More than twice as likely to expect to pursue a career in science and technology.
Nearly 4 times as likely to expect to pursue a career specifically in engineering.
More than twice as likely to volunteer in their communities.
RoboChallenge 2008 July 20th Updates
The quiz closed on 18th July 2008. Thank you for your enthusiatic attempts. Please refer to the RoboChallenge page, on the menu, for the results coming up soon this week.
Just as every year before this, you will only get to know what is the full details on the competition day itself. Everyone starts with a sealed envelope, at the same time, to solve the problem on hand. 100% knowledge, 100% independence are required of the participants. Join us for an afternoon of fun!
Date: 4th July 2008 Venue: Catholic High Secondary Registration time: 2.30pm onwards. Time: 3pm - 7pm. Team size: 3 Age: 10-19 years old Fee: S$50 Email:
Elpmis would like to declare our support for code::XtremeApps::competition (http://www.itsc.org.sg/codeXtremeApps2008.html). This heavily open source event encourages everyone to realise how powerful freedom can be. Freedom from licenses, freedom to invent! There is a new junior category for primary school students too! Learn to program with Alice, a 3D-graphics-interactive-platform. Programming is more like movie making in this case. Become the elite few who controls the computer, and not just uses it. Be a programmer!
Our Singapore team 'The Flaming Blades' have also done us proud in FLL OAC, Tokyo, Japan. They have brought back the Best Research Award! Our Singapore team 'External Fusion' has been interviewed on by reporters and an article has been published on the New Paper.
The radio has been abuzz with information about the team and robotics on 23 April 2008, 93.3FM, 97.2FM and 95.8FM. Thank for DJs for helping to make more people know about our pride, our Singapore team. Congratulations to Team Singapore! We are all very proud of you winning the top honours in World Festival, Atlanta, GA, USA! You are the first international team in 10 years to get this award too! Well done "External Fusion".
There is another team representing Singapore in FLL AOC Japan Tokyo until 29 April 2008. You can follow their daily exploits via the frequently updated blog: http://theflamingblades.wordpress.com/robot/ Good luck to the Singapore Team flying to Atlanta, US early morning at 6am, 15th April. Do Singapore proud! A renewed focus on Science and Technology - 2008 Check us out!
"...Thanks. I wish the organisers all the best in organising this competition. You have been great so far...", a FLL Singapore 2007 mentor just before the event.
FLL Singapore 2007 Venue
There over 70 teams registered already. They will be processed and placed online shortly. Competition venue: National University of Singapore, School of Computing. COM1 building, level 2. (NUS SoC COM1) Prize giving venue: National University of Singapore, University Cultural Centre (UCC). The prize giving ceremony happens on the same day after the event
The other two events happening on the same day under the umbrella of SoC Infocomm Fest are Algo*Mania and ACM ICPC, all related to technology, problem solving and programming.
(updated 26 November 2007)
elpmisROBOTICSUpdates.
There are 64 teams registered already. 1 more being processed and will be placed online shortly with their team number.
For coaches who need the FLL Coaches Handbook, this website found online has a downloadable copy of it: http://www.firstwa.org/FLL/OnlineTraining.htm.
(updated 14 November 2007)
Mentors' Briefing
Done on 9th Nov 2007 in iSHOP by Club 21. The official FLL Singapore country page is updated! Please visit www.firstlegoleague.org for the latest information.
News.
The competition date is going to be 14th December 2007.
FIRST LEGO League Sharing session
We will share with you what we know about the FLL 2007 Challenge research and mission requirements, and you can tell us what you need for this year's competition. We welcome your input. Bring S$390** if you want to pay for the Registration fee, and bring back immediately, the 2007 Challenge Set AND Playing Field Set (excludes LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R) Education NXT / LEGO MINDSTORMS Education Team Challenge set).
Venue: iShop by Club 21, level 3, Orchard Cineleisure Date: Friday(19th Oct 2007) Time: 3pm-4pm. **Payment by cash or cheque only (no credit card, nor NETS). If you need us to bill your organization, you need proof that you represent it, or email us beforehand so that we can verify before you proceed to collect.
We are the organiser, Operations Partner in Singapore of the FIRST LEGO League. Stay tuned for more information. The official Singapore country website on http://www.firstlegoleague.org is also being revamped at the moment. More information will appear there soon.
Date for competition is 14th December 2007, tentatively, a one day event.
July 25th-27th 2007 Shanghai. We are getting news and viewing the playing field first hand in Shanghai. This is an exciting day for us. Of course this is all hush hush and will only be released in US Sep 15. Looking forward to then when we can discuss it freely. Exciting! www.firstlegoleague.org
