1. WELcome!!

2. What is FIRST And the First Lego League? FLL

3. What is First lego League?
It is a competitive sport
It is a life experience
It is opportunity
It is community
It is amazing

4. How does a competition run?
First half is team presentations
Core Values
Robot Design
Project
Second half is the Robot Game
Three attempts (about 30 minutes apart)
Best score is taken

5. Lego Core Values 30% of Total Score! We are a team.
We do the work to find solutions with guidance from our coaches and mentors.
We know our coaches and mentors don't have all the answers; we learn together.
We honor the spirit of friendly competition.
What we discover is more important than what we win.
We share our experiences with others.
We display Gracious Professionalism® and Coopertition® in everything we do.
We have FUN!

6. Core values presentation
Question and answer portion
Task oriented portion
Human Knot- Standing in a circle, group members reach across and shake hands - use hand connecting to a different person. The group then tries to unravel the "human knot" by unthreading their bodies without letting go of each other people's hands.

7. Project Presentation
HYDRO DYNAMICSSM -LEARN all about water – how we find, transport, use, or dispose of it.
What might become possible when we understand what happens to our water?
Innovate a creative solution to a problem you’ve found using the engineering design process

8. Robot Presentation Design is evaluated for creativity and stability
Code is evaluated for efficiency

9. What Does the robot game look like?

10. Our mentors for the year
First Tech Challenge team members from NDCL
Mr. Steve Zink (Mrs. Zink’s husband!) – Robotics engineer from Rockwell Automation

11. Team Expectations 10 weeks until our first scrimmage!
No practice November 22
November 1 – possible reschedule
14 weeks until our Regional Meet!
Members will be asked to complete some tasks (i.e. research, brainstorming ideas) as homework
We ask for your dedication – attend practices, the scrimmage and regional tournament (I understand illness happens. To be fair, please
Fun is key but Focus is a must – stay on tract with the identified tasks of the day

12. Important Dates
4pm August 30 – midnight September 4th- online FLL member registration at
September 6th – First meeting after school in STEM room (Pick up at NDES)
September 13th - Busing to NDCL begins (Pick up will be from NDCL)
September 23rd – Rockwell Automation Team Workshop!
Breakout sessions in programming, advanced programming and building techniques!
More info to follow as far as schedule
Come if you can, it will be a great team “building” experience!
November 11th – FLL scrimmage at the School of Innovation in Willoughby
December 9th or 10th – FLL regional qualifier (date not solidified)

13. Saturday September 16
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
In Cuyahoga Heights