First Lego League Coaching Resources - wccarobotics/fll-unearthed GitHub Wiki

Important links

  • Season resources from FIRST.
    • Robot Game Rulebook
    • Team Meeting Guide - This is the guide / curriculum for coaches. You don't have to follow it exactly or at all, but it has a lot of good information.
    • Engineering Notebook - This is for the kids. It follows the same lesson plan as the Team Meeting Guide and has space for the kids to write down notes from each meeting. I don't use this much except for the introductory information.
    • Judging Rubrics - These are very important! This is what the judges at the competition will be using to score your team. The team should be working through the season on being able to show the judges how the met each of the judging criteria.
    • Judging Flowchart - This explains how judging sessions will work. Basically the team will have 5 minutes to present their innovation project, then the judges will ask them questions about it for 5 minutes, then they'll have 5 minutes to present their robot design, with 5 minutes Q & A about it afterwards. So the team should prepare 5 minute presentations that demonstrate to the judges how they met all of the criteria in the judging rubrics.
  • FLLTutorials.com - This site has tons of resources for First Lego League coaches.

Kickoff meeting

  • Prayer
  • Agenda
    • Goals of First Lego League
    • What to do in First Lego League
    • Division of responsibilities
    • Schedule / meeting length / membership
  • Goals
    • Engineering Process
    • Core values
    • Gracious professionalism & coopetition
    • Technical skills (programming, mechanics, design, etc.)
    • What we learn (or discover) is more important than what we win
  • What to do
    • Robot Game
    • Innovation Project
    • Scoring components at competitions
    • Rubrics, Rubrics, Rubrics
    • Engineering notebooks / engineering logs
  • Responsibilities (proposed)
    • Josh: Robot game and programming
    • Parents: Innovation project (research at home?)
  • Innovation project details
  • Running the team
    • Who gets keys to school?
    • Who needs to sign up as volunteers and be background checked?
    • Moving screen back and forth?
    • Sharing Legos and robots between teams
    • Lego organization
    • Computers
    • Meeting schedule and length
    • Possible team members
  • Robot game details