We hosted a local competition in Los Altos, CA on November 18, 1999 with
10 FLL teams.
WORM Robotics Team (FLL Team #80) won the 1st Place Performance Award
and Best Presentation.
We created an exhibit about our team, including a short video documentary,
that was awarded a Blue Ribbon at the 2000 Santa Clara County Fair.
We demonstrated our 1999 robot and others at an exhibit we created for
the California State Fair, August
18-20, 2000.
We were interviewed for several local television news spots that aired
on WB20 and KNTV NewsChannel 11 in November and December, 2000.
We hosted a local competition (at Cupertino High School) on November 18,
2000 with 16 FLL teams.
WORM Robotics Team 1 (FLL Team #80) was awarded Best Presentation
and Director's Award Runner-Up.
WORM Robotics Team 2 (FLL Team #1267) was awarded Best Mechanical Design.
At the Northern California state FLL Competition on December 3, 2000:
WORM Robotics Team 1 (FLL Team #80) was awarded the top honor Director's
Award, and was ranked 11th out of 66 teams in the performance
trials with a score of 170.
WORM Robotics Team 2 (FLL Team #1267) was ranked 12th out of 66
teams in the performance trials with a score of 169.
The WORM teams provided Volcanic Panic robot demonstrations at the LEGO
Mall Tour at Eastridge Mall in San Jose, CA on December 9-10, 2000.