Igutech

	[April 14, 2012] More than 600 visitors of the first Lehigh Valley Science Festival stopped by FLL Team Igutech's exhibits to enjoy hands-on activities like racing a Lego car, navigating the robot obstacle course, building a Senior bot, playing with Lego bricks ar learning about the FIRST Lego League and Team Igutech.
	Basket Raffle to support Lego Robotics activities
	Visitors learn about Lego NXt programing
	Lego 'Free Play'
	The all-time favorite: Lego car racing with electronic timing system
	Visitors learn about NXT motors and sensors

Igutech built a giant iguana! I suppose you are wondering why? On March 10th the Igutech team competed in a cardboard box derby hosted by Bear Creek Ski Mountain. In this competition, we had to make a well designed sled (in our case, an iguana) using only cardboard, zip ties, duct tape, and paint to add details. We met on a  Saturday afternoon and spent hours building the cardboard iguana. We had our hearts set on winning! When we arrived, we saw many other cool yet intimidating sleds. Would our sled go fast? We wouldn’t know the answer until the first run. The rules of the race where simple: the first sled down to the bottom of the tubing hill would win!

After carrying the large iguana to the top of the hill, we  patiently waited our turn. Once it was our turn to race, we already had our adrenaline pumping! We were speeding
down the hill at an amazing rate until we hit the wall, literally, and lost our momentum. Although, we didn’t win the competition, we had a great time participating in the event. Just wait until next time!

Team Igutech would like to thank you for your outstanding support! A BIG THANK YOU to all our friends worldwide who have voted for our CleanBox idea over the past 30 days. With your help, and your help only, we accumulated an incredible 11952 votes, which placed us within the top six percent of all 261 entries. Stay tuned for more news about our CleanBox....

Have you ever felt that hand washing is kind of boring and annoying? You are not the only one.....
Do you always wash you hands before handling food or eating with your fingers?

• Fact is almost everyone knows that hand washing is important but still it is skipped more often than not because it is inconvenient or there is no sink in sight...
• Fact is also that millions of times every year food becomes contaminated and people get seriously sick from food borne illnesses.

We, FLL Team #6 (The Igutechs) feel we found a great solution: The Cleanbox (U.S. patent pending - #61588938). A device that makes hand washing actually fun! How do we make a boring chore like hand washing fun? Well, as soon as someone approaches the CleanBox (a high-tech sink - something between a dishwasher and a video game) the device comes to life and starts playing a random video clip. For example, a YouTube video or something from a school data base. At the same time, the Cleanbox dispenses a soft stream of warm water and soap at the right times. As long as the person washes her hands, the video continues playing. In addition, there are light effects (like color changing LEDs) that light up the water. Once the hand washing cycles is finished, hot air drys your hands... As you can see, the basic idea is to reward the user with a pleasant experience (video, light, sound, perfectly soft water stream,....) instead of demanding that you MUST wash your hands...

The device can easily installed in regular rest rooms where they would replace sink, soap dispenser, dryer, etc. In additon, our CleanBoxes could be installed close to places where food is served or consumed, for example in school cafeterias, commercial kitchen, near lunch buffets, etc. Since the cleanBox is enclosed except the opening for the hands, water splashing won't be a problem.

Thank you again for your interest in our team and the CleanBox idea. Your support allowed us to participate successfully at the FLL Global Innovation Award. Online voting is now closed, however, w'd always love to hear from you. Send us a note through the 'Contacct Us' link on the left.

Here's a video of our Cleanbox!

[Jan 6, 2012 HG] FLL Team #6 gets a first class backstage tour through the kitchen of Emmaus High School. Thanks to Ms. Aneita Sutton, Director at Nutrition Inc. and Mr. Paul Vlasics, the team had the opportunity to learn all about safe food handling in a commercial kitchen. We were very impressed by the number of measures in place to keep food at the proper temperature all the time and free from contamination.