Alright, tomorrow is the 2009 (in 2010) Iowa FLL Championship! We’re all incredibly excited to see all of the teams and what they’ve accomplished with Smart Move! All of today, Friday, the Iowa FLL Planning Team is setting up for the tournament. We already dropped four sets of bleachers in with a 10 ton lift-now we get to set everything else up.

If you aren’t going to be able to make it to the Championship in person, you can still see everything that’s going on! We’ll be webcasting the entire event live. Click on the link below to watch. The live webcast will be starting around 8:30AM, but you can log in now to make sure your computer is ready for it.

You can also take a look at the program and schedule for the day on the Important Documents page if you’re watching for a certain event or team.

We’d like to thank ISU Engineering Distance Education and ISU Extension for their help with the live webcast.

Hope everyone is as excited about the upcoming Iowa FLL Championship this weekend – we certainly are! Want to get a sneak peak at what the Championship is like and what teams have been working on this season? The ISU College of Engineering has posted a bunch of videos about FLL from this season and last season. Check them out!

The Iowa FLL Championship is almost here! On January 16, 2010, 72 teams and over 3000 people will be on the ISU Campus in Howe and Hoover Halls, celebrating what all of the FLL teams have accomplished this season. It’s going to be a ton of fun – make sure you’re there too! If you want to learn more about what’s going on, take a look at the Iowa Championship and 2009 Important Documents pages. They have great information about how to get here, what to expect from the day and what teams are attending. Hope to see you there! If you can’t make it, we’ll also be live webcasting the entire event. Watch the ISEK homepage for the link later in the week. Also, check out the ISU News Release about FLL!

Registration to participate in Iowa FLL Regional Qualifiers for the 2009 Smart Move season is now open! Please be sure to register each one of your teams that wants to participate in a regional qualifier. As a reminder, we’ll be assigning teams to their regional qualifiers in mid-October, after registration has closed. If you want to learn more about how we assign teams to regional qualifiers, please take a look at our regional qualifiers page.

Click here to register for 2009 Iowa FLL Regional Qualifiers Registration is now closed!

ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) has a new K-12 engineering site. There are bi-montly e-news for teachers with lesson plans and e-news for students to learn all about the different disciplines in engineering. Way cool — check it out!