An Explanation About the LEGO Lassies!

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So, today I need to explain about the LEGO Lassies and what we're about. The LEGO Lassies are an FLL (First LEGO League) team. Our team number is 26070.
 The FLL, or First LEGO League, focuses on three areas each year. These areas are Project, Robot, and Core Values. Robot focuses on your robot, its design, and the Robot Game, which is a set of missions for your robot to do. The missions are created according to the season's theme. Core Values is harder to explain. It focuses on... how your team acts, I'd say. Core Values are things like coopertition, which is friendly competition.
 Every season there is a theme. This season's theme is Hydrodynamics, and last season's was Animal Allies. This season's theme focuses on the human water cycle, which is how we find, use, dispose of, and this one other thing I can't remember at the moment with water. Every season a team needs to find a problem according to the theme (so this year, the human water cycle) and create a new solution to the problem they chose.
 Like I said, my team advanced past Qualifiers. We also won an award - the Champion's Award - because we had "the best balance in all three categories," I think. I'll tell you a bit about our project before I stop writing.
 This year, we chose a problem about people not trusting outdoor drinking fountains. So we created a new drinking fountain spout (it's officially called a bubbler, but who cares?) called the Lassie Spout. The Lassie Spout has a turbidity sensor inside, which senses the turbidity of the water. Turbidity is the amount of large or small particles that could be hiding something harmful. Then it uses LEDs to light up a ring around the part the water comes out of signifying if the water is clean or dirty. It also uses an impellor to generate electricity.
 The Lassie Spout waits for the turbidity sensor to test the water, which runs for a few seconds and cleans the spout as well. The ring of LEDs is red during this time. If the water is turbid, or bad, the LEDs stay red, but if it is good, the LEDs turn green and the water is safe to drink.
 That is our project, and I hope you enjoy!

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