Welcome to Water 4 Tomorrow!
Home of the Microbots
The Global Water Crisis
Did you know that our planet is in a Global Water Crisis? The World
Health Organization, Unicef, and the United Nations have identified
access to clean water as the single most important global crisis of the
21 century!
"Water for Life" is the United Nations decade long initiative of dedication to a worldwide commitment to bring global attention to this humanitarian crisis. The UN International Decade for Action Water for Life program is a global call to all citizens to intensify advocacy and action on the ground. |
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The Microbots heard this call to action! We agreed that this special call from the United Nations went hand in hand with our 2008 FLL topic on Climate Connections. Our FLL directive called on us to research, identify, create an innovative solution, and share a problem that our community and another (or in this case many others!) faces with climate change.
During our 2008 in-depth study of
climate, the one problem in NC that we kept coming back to was water.
The one problem worldwide that we could not ignore was the global water
crisis. Our vision is to raise awareness in our community-at-large via
the education on our Water4Tomorrow website. Our hope is to create many
new advocates for the global water crisis.
What Should You Do?
We
hope that our Water4Tomorrow website and the information on our many
pages will provide you with lots of exciting resources and education.
We want to create momentum to compel "everyone everywhere" to make
small changes in the way they think and act about water.
- Learn about the global water situation (click here)
- Learn about 2 towns and their cool water strategies (click here)
- See the results of our survey as of November 5th (click here)
- Take our survey (click here)
- Learn about water technologies and enjoy our cool Lego Digital Designs! (click here)
- Learn a bit more about our team and the project we're involved in
(click here) - See who helped us out with this project (click here)
Please
have fun and enjoy our website! We know we cannot achieve our
goals on our own, but together with YOU we can work "drop-by-drop" towards
a future where every human being on the planet has the most basic human
rights need met, Water For Life.
If you have questions
or comments, email us at:
fllmicrobots@gmail.com
Thank you for your interest in our website! Feel free to pass on the website link to others who might be interested.
Visitors' Homes
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FIRST LEGO LEAGUE
We are the Microbots, a 3rd year FIRST LEGO League team from Cary, North Carolina, USA. The ages of our homeschooled team range from 11-13.
FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is an international competition where thousands of teams compete in their own state, province, etc. Then the team that won their state competition might get to go to the world’s competition.
Here is a link to the FLL website: http://firstlegoleague.org
ABOUT THE MICROBOTS
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We're headed to Nationals in Dayton, Ohio on May 7 to 9th!
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Click here to learn more about the NC competition and see some photos of our experiences there
The 2008 competition is called Climate Connections. We analyzed the effects of climate on our local and global community. Our research focuses on water availability and usage. We are using information derived from studying Cary, NC, USA and Brisbane, QLD, Australia, but applicable to the rest of the world.
We have documented our work in FLL in our blog. Check it out! http://fllmicrobots.org