Fll (first Lego league) Fll challenge:Nature’s fury(the project)

Choose a communityWe must choose a community that is

related to tornadoes (since we already identified our problem)

Our team’s community can be a city, village, town, township, county or district

A map of tornado alley.

Identify a problemWe have already identified our problem:

TornadoesA tornado is a violent column of air

extending from a thunderstorm to the ground

A few types of tornadoes are, land spouts, multiple vortex, waterspouts, gustnados, dust devils, fire whirls, steam devils, stovepipes, rope and wedge tornadoes

A storm chaser getting out of his car to take a quick video of the tornado.

Most tornadoes form from thunderstorms

You need warm, moist air and cool, dry air to make a tornado

How a tornado forms.

Brian’s idea: a hydraulic system that will lower the house under the ground making the roof at ground level.

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Innovative solution(s)

Shyavan’s idea: a humming bird like drone that fly's into a tornado and scans its wind speed pressure, etc. and then lower the house system (Brian’s idea).

Shreeram’s idea: a sensor that will be put in the spiraling tornado by launching it off a rescue helicopter.

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Nazariy’s idea: safe shelter indicator in case of a tornado warning some people might need to get directions to a safe shelter we could create a map including all the shelters in the area. they would also be available to download in all the phones or devices

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Tharun’s idea:a device will be placed on each building in the city. The device will detect the tornado is near, if the device detects a tornado it will send a message to another device using Near-Field-Communication (NFC) Once the other device detects the message the alarm will go off and alert the people.

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