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Preseason

Preseason. Team Building. Play a game at each meeting so everyone learns names. Provide questions for team members to use to interview each other. Create things unique to the team like a team motto, handshake, or song.

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Preseason

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  1. Preseason Team Building • Play a game at each meeting so everyone learns names. • Provide questions for team members to use to interview each other. • Create things unique to the team like a team motto, handshake, or song. • Give the team tasks to do and review how they would solve them, see how many different ways the team can think up to solve the same problem. • Host team projects like fundraising, community service, or field trips. • Participate in an FLL camp. • Build a game table, assemble the FLL field when available.

  2. Preseason Team Practice • Put together the game field • Build example Lego Robots from instructions • Learn to drive the robot straight! • Then Learn other ways to navigate the robot • Learn to build different styles of drive trains. • Improve your design to make it easy to change batteries • Explore using sensors one at a time, and make up a game to help the team think about how to solve it using a certain sensor. • Object manipulation – lifting, dropping, pushing, dumping, dragging.

  3. Preseason Team Project • FLL is not just about building and competing with robots. • By doing research the team will learn more about the Challenge theme and better understand the work of professionals in the field. • Identify the problem • Research the problem • Create a technical or engineering solution • Share the team findings

  4. Preseason Coaching • Guide the team to help them be successful and avoid frustration. • Allow for choices along the way, but limit them to ones that will work, no wrong answers. • Lead discussions, make suggestions, but let the team make all of the decisions, many paths to success. • A mutual foundation of trust is critical, allow everyone to voice their opinion. • Give acknowledgement and positive feedback • Keep each child involved in the team, and in team decisions. • Coaches must resolve disputes, keep the viewpoint positive, and refocus the team on the tasks at hand.

  5. RESOURCES • www.usfirst.com • www.firstlegoleague.com • www.penfieldrobotics.com • Mike O’Brien

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