FLL Atlanta 2010 - Friday FLL

Friday - Morning:
Instead of the Waffles House we had brakfast on friday as invited guests of FIRST. Not bad!
So we had a chat in the morning and watched the opening ceremony from top of the stadion ...

bread and bricks ...	... for breakfast
	opening ceremony ...	... at the Georgia Dome	even robots watched!

Friday - Atlanta break:
On Friday I took a few hours off for sightseeing ...
I had a quick look at the Centennial Olympic Park, the Coca Cola Museum and attended the guided tour through
CNN headquartes ...
And outside of the Georgia Dome NASA had their moonrover on display.

on display ...	... a NASA ...	... moonrover	headlights
battery charging unit	two joysticks, four displays	controlled by USB stick	footlights
	moonrover (6 MB)	moonrover (10 MB)
	Centennial Olympic Park	blossoms ...	... and art
	movie memories	have a break
	opposite Coke - fish	bottles in the lobby	beads and beads and beads ...
	inside the ...	...memorabilia room
worlds largest bottle opener	relaxed!	Mona Cola	refreshing
		all I want for Christmas is a Coke!
	Matrjoschka Cola doll	the taste of the world
	a guided tour through CNN headquarters	CNN pimped Humvee

Friday - FLL:
After my visit of the outside world I was back again at the LEGO booth and the FLL challenges ...

old NXT-T	crowds of attendees	even robots use escalators	Vitruvian robot
little girl ...	... and large program	AI on the NXT	impressed visitors
crowd at the LEGO booth	Birthe & Steven	Buzz & Woody	Marc-Andre & his friend
(country) Joe & the fish	tearing down ...	... of the LEGO booth	farewell
relaxed	next step dinner ...		Atlanta monarchy

Friday - Evening:
FIRST invited us to the Georgia Aquarium for dinner ... at the great ball room!
After that we were allowed to linger through the aquarium ... and that was great!

Georgia Aquarium	waiting for food	Lotte & Jay	Joe & Patric
Martijn & new iPhone apps	the great ball room ...	... with a view to the aquarium	"Fish are friends. Not food!"
first ...	... speeches ...	... then ...	... food

Patric & Michael	(MB) Joe live!	(JM) Bon ...	(JM) ... Appetit!
(JM)	(JM)	(JM)	(JM)
(JM)	(JM)		(JM)

entrance to ...	... the waterworld	moving floor	Beluga & Beluga





the large fish tank (24 MB)	many jellyfish (7 MB)	jellyfish close up (13 MB)	cu later, aligator (12 MB)