About Team Let Me Think (FLL Team 3270)
Formation
Our team was formed in 2009 from a group of friends from school, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and people who were interested on the FIRST Lego League program and were looking for like people throught the FIRST TEAM UP website. Thanks to the encouragement of Janet Anderson from the FLL regional partner, SBPLI (School and Business Partnetship of Long Island. Inc.) our team was formed with the support of our parents. Our team is based in Huntington Station NY and has members from Huntington Station, South Huntington and Northport. Our members are boys and girls age 9 to 13 and attend the following schools: Maplewood Intermediate, Henry L. Stimson Middle School, Long Island School for the Gifted in the South Huntington area and Saint Patrick in Huntington. Our team is mostly self funded.
Our Goal
We are open to exploring technology and enjoy building with Lego Mindstorms, some of us have great interest in engineering, genetics, computers while others are just trying out to see if this sort of thing is for them (since this is not part of our school day, it does required a lot of work.) We try to juggle our schedules and coordinating activities and meetings is always a challenge. Next year many of our members will age out of the FLL, we are commited to continuing our journey by participating in the FTC program. To that effect we are looking for other teams or individuals with like interest to make a larger group to spread the cost and work.
Meetings
We meet at one of our homes every Tuesday from 6:30PM to 8:30PM during the school year. Except when school is closed, following the South Huntington School District calendar.
This Website
This site originated from the project for FLL 2011 challenge Food Factor. Our team began invetigating about chocolate and was hard to find information regarding contaminants and the outcome of recalls.
We came across a case were chocolate was laced with melamine. Remember the melamine case in baby formula in China? The same contaminant appeared in chocolate coins. The problem with food being sourced globally it is hard to know what is in a product and whether it is good to eat.