NFR - My annual request for you to help a robotics team...

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Part of the FIRST LEGO League competition is to develop an innovation or invention that will solve a problem relating to a theme. This year, our theme is Trash Trek, and the teams had to choose a piece of trash that they felt was not recycled/reused appropriately, and develop a way to deal with it.

Team Loading - Please Wait chose batteries, and would really appreciate your filling in the survey in the link.

I have another team with a survey, and will no doubt be posting that soon.

Thanks very much!!!

http://goo.gl/forms/4OtpDdeOSw

 
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FYI, my local library has a drop box for spent batteries. I think of getting rid of batteries

and shopping for them as two different tasks. Now they sell batteries in such big packages, I can't imagine buying more. (As in, I want to get rid of spent batteries, but don't need a replacement.) Maybe I'm a different kind of consumer, but I wonder if retail battery purchases are declining? Most of the gadgets I used batteries for are replaced by my phone, and that comes with a battery. I can see kids and toys using more but adults? Not so sure. Might be interesting to see if it's a declining market, or use of a particular type of battery is geared toward a segment of the population (kids.)

 
In our home we use a lot of batteries. Computer mouses, two inside pocket type radios

electric scissors, several clocks, watches, and several rechargeable batteries such as cameras. Just this week, I have replaced 5 batteries in both our small radios. I think it depends on your generation and lifestyle.

 
Exactly. I replaced the battery in my digital scale. It was the first battery I've bought in years.

 
I was thinking that as well, Traca, but then I realized how many batteries I used

in class alone, in my robots. Some of them have rechargeable batteries, but I am using rechargeable AAs for the rest, and eventually these will wear out and need replacing. I will tell them their comments - the judges love it when the team pre-empts their criticisms. smileys/smile.gif

 
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