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 * Mission || # || Points || Do I Want To Do It? ||
 * Fishing || 1 || 12 Total ||  ||
 * Pizza and Ice Cream || 2 || 14 Total ||  ||
 * Fresh Farm Produce || 3 || 9 Total ||  ||
 * Distant Travel || 4 || 9 Total ||  ||
 * Cooking Time || 5 || 14 Total ||  ||
 * Storage Temperature || 6 || 20 Total ||  ||
 * Pest Removal || 7 || 30 Total ||  ||
 * Refigerated Ground Transport || 8 || 26 Total ||  ||
 * Groceries || 9 || 20 Total ||  ||
 * Disinfect || 10 || 48 Total || YES ||
 * Hand Wash/ Bacterial || 11 || 3 ||  ||
 * Hand Wash/ Viral || 12 ||  ||   ||
 * Good Bacteria || 13 ||  ||   ||

MISIONS MISSION: Read the Rules page, Field Setup page, and the Updates page. Please! Knowledge Is Power. MISSION: POLLUTION REVERSAL — No matter where pollution originates, it usually finds its way into water. And of  course, all plants and animals take in water. Since we depend on plants and animals for our food, pollution is a source of contamination, not just in what we breathe and drink – but also in what we eat. The yellow and blue balls represent pesticides on the farm and heavy metals in the water. While on their rings, they’re off the mat. SCORING CONDITION(S): Balls touching the mat are worth 4 POINTS EACH. MISSION: CORN HARVEST — A harvester (combine) is just one of the many huge pieces of machinery that handle massive amounts of food at once. Equipment like this runs on gasoline, and has oil. You can also find hydraulic fluid, nuts & bolts, screens, gaskets, set screws, bearings, sealant, paint chips, and bugs on it – any of these materials and substances could find their way into the food. 2011 FLL CHALLENGE robot game — missions —————Remember to check the Robot Game Updates often as new posts may affect your team strategy.————— ** 13 ** SCORING CONDITION(S): Get points for one of these only: ---ANY piece of corn touching the mat is worth 5 POINTS (additional pieces do not add to your score). ---OR--- ---ANY piece of corn in Base is worth 9 POINTS (additional pieces do not add to your score). MISSION: FISHING – Fish must be eaten or frozen immediately after being caught. The number of germs that depend on fish is much, much higher than the number of people who do! SCORING CONDITION(S): Big fish in Base are worth 3 POINTS EACH, if the baby fish is still touching its mark. MISSION: PIZZA AND ICE CREAM – When you go out in public to eat, you place a lot of trust in the people preparing your food. Do they wash their hands or wear fresh gloves? In what direction do they sneeze? How clean are their storage and preparation areas? At what temperatures are the foods stored and cooked? How old are the ingredients? How are pests controlled? SCORING CONDITION(S): Pizza and ice cream in Base are worth 7 POINTS EACH. MISSION: FARM FRESH PRODUCE – In general, the fresher your food is and the fewer ingredients there are in it, the less chance it has had to become contaminated. Small farms and fisheries close to where you live are a good source of fresh food, but many small farms don’t get the same level of inspection as large ones do. SCORING CONDITION(S): The yellow farm truck in Base is worth 9 POINTS. MISSION: DISTANT TRAVEL – Your body suppresses and eliminates the vast majority of chemicals and germs you eat, and it’s especially good at getting rid of stuff it’s been exposed to before – stuff it’s used to. But when you eat in a city or country that’s very far from home, your body’s defenses can be caught off guard by contaminants it’s never processed before. It’s common for travellers to get quite sick after eating certain foods, while other people who ate the same foods right next to them have no problems. SCORING CONDITION(S): The robot touching the east wall is worth 9 POINTS. Remember Rule 23. MISSION: COOKING TIME – Before cooking, some foods have more germs, or tougher germs than others. If you’re sup posed to cook a food for 40 minutes, but you think “it should be okay” after 35 – think again! SCORING CONDITION(S): The white pointer in the red zone is worth 14 POINTS. MISSION: STORAGE TEMPERATURE – Germs grow fast. If your refrigerator is set even a few degrees higher than it’s supposed to be, the “shelf life” of many of the foods is cut in half, or even further. If you go to play ball instead of help ing to put the picnic food back in the cooler – that’s bad! If you ever hear the phrase “it’s only been out for a few hours” –make some noise! SCORING CONDITION(S): The thermometer spindle clicked/dropped fully showing the low red temperature is worth 20 POINTS (the spindle needs to drop all the way). MISSION: PEST REMOVAL – Some animals carry many, many germs that don’t bother them, but which are really bad for us. And some animals have extremely unclean habits (enough said about that!). These animals have become very good at infesting population centers and especially food storage, shipping, and preparation areas, living in the shadows, climbing and nesting in the tiniest unseen places. Convince them to live somewhere else! Keep all food well-sealed, and all food areas clean. At the first sign of these pests, it’s usually too late! SCORING CONDITION(S): Rats in your Base are worth 15 POINTS EACH (to you only). MISSION: REFRIGERATED GROUND TRANSPORT – In shipping, cases of frozen and refrigerated foods are often thrown onto pallets, spilled, torn, and crushed by forklifts, and each other, as they are warehoused and loaded onto trucks bound for the marketplace. Then the cases go on bumpy rides for hours in the sun. Amazingly, only a tiny percentage of the food gets contaminated during all this. The problem is, this tiny percentage totals tens of thousands of tons a year! And while most of that is discovered and thrown away, “some” is not. SCORING CONDITION(S): Get points for one of these only… ---The trailer in Base is worth 12 POINTS. ---OR--- —————Remember to check the Robot Game Updates often as new posts may affect your team strategy.————— ** 14 ** ---The trailer with meat inside, and no germs inside, with any of its wheels touching the port dock north of the white line is worth 20 POINTS, and 6 ADDITIONAL POINTS for each big fish inside. For fish points, the baby fish must still be touching its mark. MISSION: GROCERIES – Here’s your chance to buy undamaged goods, as fresh as possible, with the fewest ingredients possible, from trustable places, and get your cold stuff home and put away as soon as possible! SCORING CONDITION(S): EACH grocery unit is worth 2 POINTS if the table is supporting all of its weight, and no weight other than grocery units (the flower centerpiece can be there too). MISSION: DISINFECT – It would be very tough to eliminate food contamination from all sources, but you can probably do more than you think, and if you can at least avoid making it worse, that would be a great start. SCORING CONDITION(S): Empty dispensers are worth --- 12 POINTS EACH, if NO bacteria is touching the mat outside Base. ---OR--- --- 7 POINTS EACH, if ANY bacteria is touching the mat outside Base. MISSION: HAND WASH/BACTERIAL – Innovative ideas in the future may help us reduce germs, chemicals, and particles, in natural, farming, processing, and public food settings, but studies have shown that one of the biggest source of contamination to your food is your own hands. So wash them! Front and back, with soap, in hot water, for three times longer than you do now! As this mission should show, you can never wash your hands enough. SCORING CONDITION(S): Bacteria in or on the sink are worth 3 POINTS, only if all of these are true: ---All were in Base at some time prior to being in the sink. ---While between Base and the sink, each was the only one in motion. ---All equipment involved with each bacterium’s trip to the sink was --completely in Base at the beginning of the trip. --completely out of Base at the end of the trip. ---The sink is supporting all the weight of every germ, and not supporting any weight except germs. Bacteria getting to the sink any other way are given back to the team in Base by the referee (the “ref”). MISSION: HAND WASH/VIRAL – Viruses almost always need a “host” (another living thing) to live on. They are almost always bad, and they’re also somewhat harder to deal with than bacterial germs. Alcohol sanitizer, bleach sanitizer, and high heat are the better weapons against viral germs, but hand washing is also helpful. SCORING CONDITION(S): Get points for one of these only… ---One to eight viral germs in the sink are worth exactly 6 POINTS only. ---OR--- ---Nine or more viral germs in the sink are worth exactly 13 POINTS only. MISSION: GOOD BACTERIA – Not all bacteria are bad. There are about a thousand types of good bacteria living on/ in your body, which total in the tens of trillions! Bacteria do all sorts of good work for you, and help process your food, both before and after you eat it. How do we get rid of bad bacteria without upsetting the good bacteria? Bacteria are this year’s “touch penalty objects” as described in the Rules. When you cause a touch penalty, the ref takes one yellow bacterium. SCORING CONDITION(S): Yellow bacteria are worth
 * 6 POINTS EACH in Base only. **