Discovery
Provide examples from the season about things your team discovered that were not focused on gaining an advantage in the competition or winning an award. Tell the judges how you balanced all three parts of FLL (Core Values, Project, and Robot Game/Design) especially if you really wanted to focus on only one sometimes!
Robot Design / Technical Skills
Research
Robot Design / Technical Skills
- Learnt how to perform under pressure
- Real life scenarios might be different from what we practiced for
- Learnt how to build reusable software (ex. MyBlocks)
- Learnt the importance of practicing
- Benefits of Strategizing and Designing before Implementation
- Learnt the art of problem-solving (knowing there’s a problem, identifying where the problem is, brainstorming, solve the problem, test and if doesn’t work try again)
Project / Research - How to contact professionals (We emailed and did Google Hangouts with professionals around the world)
- How to present our idea (We catered our presentation to different audiences, like the Town Board and the Young Inventors Club)
- How to research our topic using the internet (For ex. we found scientific journals and newspaper articles about bird strikes)
- How to write concisely
- Importance of citing our sources
Research
- collaborate on google docs
- Assigning different missions to different team members to save time
- discussed what we did/had to do each Sunday meeting
- Having deadlines for set tasks in all three aspects (this ensured we worked on all aspects of FLL)
- Splitting up tasks between team members to save time and work efficiently (i.e. boards, speeches, newsletters, etc.)
- Having fun while being hard at work is easy when you are working with friends
- How to resolve conflicts (try out each other’s ideas and see which ones work best or we merged our ideas together to form an even better one)
- Uniform T-shirts and Safari Vests
- Eat lunch or dinner together during every meeting
- Team Song: What I Like About...