Come and meet children from 35 countries, when they meet to show their technology project and compete with their robot. General public are welcome  - free entrance. You can see the program here.

Climate Connections

You will be able to watch the teams’ amazing and autonomous LEGO MINDSTORMS robots that will, in 2 minutes and 30 seconds, complete pre-designed missions on a playing field.
 
You will also learn how the teams have dealt with their research assignments which read:

1. Research how climate affects your own community. Identify a problem caused by climate in your area, analyze climate data about the problem, and discover what your community is doing about it. Find another community somewhere in the world with the same issue and identify any solutions they are working on.
   Discuss the various ways climate impacts your community and your lives. Look at climate data available for your area as it relates to your climate problem. Consider talking with experts who work in a climate-related profession every day, such as climatologists, farmers, foresters, and community leaders. Then find another community in a different geographical area that is experiencing a similar problem. Consult the FLL Topic Guide for additional project resources.
2. Create an innovative solution based on the information you gathered. See if others, on a local or even global level, could use your innovation to solve this climate related problem or improve on an existing solution.
   Consider all the potential solutions to your problem and how great an impact you can have. Talk with experts to see what ideas are already being developed or used. Build your climate connections by creating an innovative solution for your chosen climate problem that could be applied in both communities and adopted by even more communities who face a similar issue.
3. Share your research and solution. Once you have researched and developed your idea, get out there and share it! Take what you have learned to build awareness of the problem and promote your solution, highlighting your research. Use this project to see just how great an impact you can have on your community and your world!
   
   

   IMPORTANT:
   See the official game and ruling here!
   Here are the official Q & A for FLLOEC.

Climate Actions

We shall grant 6 state/national/regional Research Award winning teams the possibility to join and work with experts over the weekend on implementation proposals for their research assignments.
 
During the weekend in May the 6 teams chosen will work with experts from universities, consultant companies, United Nations Energy Program, European Environment Agency etc. to make an implementation plan for their research projects.
At the end of the weekend another group of experts will evaluate the 6 implementation plans and appoint a winning project.
Following the event the winning project will be implemented in real-life (pending project as a model/prototype or otherwise) by support from a large consulting engineering company, NIRAS.
We hope to be able to present the winning project at COP15 (world climate summit) in December 2009 to demonstrate that children can make a difference!