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Registration

Posted by FLL Egypt in Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:25 No Comments

 

 

Before registering for the FLL, make sure you read the following carefully.

Organizing A Team
Anyone can form a team. It can be a school classroom, after-school program, extracurricular group, home school, neighborhood kids, a club, or civic organization. A team consists of three to 10 kids, ages 9-16 (9-14 in U.S. and Canada), and at least one adult coach.

* To be eligible, a child cannot be older than 16 on January 1 of the year the Challenge is announced.
For example, if a child turns 17 in May of 2010 they are eligible to participate in the 2010 season, whereas a child who turned 17 in December 2009 would not.
* A child can only be a team member on one team.
A child is not allowed to be a member on multiple teams.
* Any single coach can be the coach for multiple teams.
For example, a teacher could be the coach for multiple teams in their classroom.
*Important for coaches
Before filling the registration form, please make sure you have read the coach's promise and please be informed that it's your responsiblity to make sure rules are being met. Also, please note that the coach's contacts, first one in the registration form, will be used for communication between us and your team. Also, this will be considered the Priniciapl Coach. So, please provide us with the correct info carefully.


 

Q: Can my child be matched with an existing team?
Teams are structured in a variety of different ways; some are clubs or after-school programs that meet year-round, while others are formed by parents, community organizations, or youth groups. For this and other reasons, we do not match individual children with pre-existing teams. Also, for privacy reasons, we are not able to share lists of team contact information. We encourage parents and teachers to start teams in their areas and then invite other interested students to join, and we provide lots of information to help you with this process. You may want to contact your local schools to see if they have an existing team or are interesting in starting one. Also, we can guide you to organizations that accept individual children and match them to build teams.

What You Need To Get Started
Besides eager kids and a willing coach, teams need to have
1. LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit to build their robot (check the parts rule within the Robot Game Rules)
2. Playground (mat and field setup kit) to practice the robot game missions
Also, teams require a place to meet and a few needs within that site. A team needs:
* Room to meet as a group
* Space for the 4'x8' playing field
* Secure storage for robot set, mission models, and partially assembled robots
* Computer & internet access for programming and research
* Valid email address for the Coach to receive info from FLL throughout Challenge season

 

FLL Challenge

  • Field Setup
  • Robot Game Rules
  • Robot Game Missions
  • Robot Game Q&A
  • Project Details
  • Project Q&A
  • FLL the whole experience!

The field is where the Robot Game takes place.  It consists of a field mat, on a table, with mission models arranged on top.  The field mat and the LEGO pieces for building the mission models are part of your Field Setup Kit. MISSION MODELS’ instructions for building the mission models are on a CD, in the same box as the LEGO pieces.  Instructions for how to build the table and how to arrange everything on it are in the Field Setup section in the Challenge.

Like any other game, the FLL Robot Game has also rules! Make sure to check the updated list of rules when it’s published for the new season, Body Forward. Rules are essential for to know prior to competing for the Robot Game.

You have to remember that  you are “Gracious Professionals.”  This means you are competing hard against PROBLEMS, while treating PEOPLE with respect and kindness – people from your own team as well people from other teams. You build onto other people’s ideas instead of resisting or defeating them.

Robot Game missions are the Robot Tasks and Point Values.The Body Forward Challenge missions will be listed early September in the challenge page.

By rules, the current Game Q&A page on the web takes overall precedence. MAKE SURE TO CHECK BACK THERE OFTEN. The head ref is not obligated to consider calls made at previous tournaments unless those calls have been added to the latest Game Q&A.

Can FLL teams improve our quality of life? Through the 2010 Body Forward Challenge, 9 to 16 year olds will explore the cutting-edge world of biomedical engineering to discover innovative ways to repair injuries, overcome genetic predispositions, and maximize the body’s potential, with the intended purpose of leading happier and healthier lives.

Join us in September 2010 for the Body Forward Challenge release.

For questions that may rise up to you regarding the project, always check the Project Q&A section of the Challenge page. It shall contain questions posted from teams, and answers to them.

It can be easy to get carried away with the designing, building, and programming of the FLL robot. But remember that the performance’s score of a robot is only 25% of a team’s score at the tournament. Equally important to the team’s total score are your efforts in: Tthe Project, where you research a topic and effectively present a well thought-of explanation of your team’s creative solution. The technical interview, where you explain the technical aspects of your robot’s design and programming. Teamwork, where you work effectively as a team and demonstarate FLL Core Calues. Each of these additional areas contributes 1/4 of your score for the day. Do not lose sight of the importance and skill building that each of these components can have on your team.