SMART Team Visits Soundwaters Educators
The SMART Team - Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The S.M.A.R.T. First Lego League team visited with the educators at SoundWaters in Stamford, Connecticut. It was awesome! First we had to set up, and we had fun putting our portable board together with all of the nuts and bolts. Then we showed our audience the robot presentation. Sub Wall-y did great, but we had forgotten to download a program so we were unable to do the flag mission. Oh well.

After displaying our robot and the missions Sub Wall-y could accomplish, we performed our Research skit. The skit was great, and the educators at Sound Waters looked like they enjoyed it. However, the Q&A that followed the skit was not as easy to do. Our expert audience really knew their stuff, and we were surprised and awed when we heard some of the questions. The questions that we were unable to answer were written down and we planned to find answers for all questions at a later meeting.

Our JFLL team got in on the act too! The S.M.A.R.T.Y.S Junior FLL team presented their creature, habitat and boat to the Soundwaters educators. They described their creature, its habitat, what it ate, and everything! They did an awesome job, and made the S.M.A.R.T. team very proud.

After the event we went outside and had a HUGE snowball fight.

The unofficial winners were:

• Eileen for biggest and most violent snowballs
• Jon for best sneak attacks and aim
• Nick for most hit and thrown
• Ann for the fastest at running away
• Sarah for smallest snowball
• Jo-Jo for overall funniest to throw at
• And Dawn for craziest thrower

More About Soundwaters
Here is a quote from the Soundwaters website:

The mission of SoundWaters is to educate children and adults about the wonders and beauty of Long Island Sound and its watershed. Through education, SoundWaters provides people with an understanding and awareness of the changes they can make in their lives and communities to restore, protect and preserve Long Island Sound and the Environment.

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