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Coach’s Promise

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FLL Coaches’ Promise


As the coach of a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team, please read the information below for further understanding of FLL core values. As coach, you are responsible for honoring and communicating FLL core values to team members, team volunteers, parents, and others affiliated with your team.


All teams are expected to abide by FLL rules and guidelines as they exist now and as they may be set forth during the season. Team rules, guidelines, and policies and procedures are detailed in the coaches’ handbook. Any updates, additions, participant consent forms, and volunteer recruitment, screening, and supervision guidelines for the team will be communicated to FLL coaches via email and posted on the FIRST LEGO League website.

IMPORTANT

Judges will only reward teams where children show ownership of the completed work, including building, programming, and research. Judges are trained to recognize adult participation and may choose not to give your team credit if they observe or find evidence that adults did the work.

My Promise as Coach:

1) The children come first. FLL is about the children having fun and getting excited about science and technology. Everything my team does starts and ends with that principle.

2) The children do the work. This is their opportunity to learn and grow. The children on my team do all of the programming, research, problem solving, and building. Adults can help them find the answers, but cannot give them the answers or make the decisions.

3) My team is comprised of ten or fewer members (all team members participate on only one team), registered as an official FLL team, and all team members are no older than 16 on January 1st of the Challenge year.

4) I am responsible for reading and relaying all aspects of FLL guidelines and rules to my team, other coaches, volunteers, and parents. FLL communicates with my team via my primary email address.

5) I will encourage my team members, other coaches, volunteers, and team supporters to develop and practice a set of FLL Values that reflects FIRST’s goal to change culture in a positive way by inspiring others through our team’s actions and words.

Coach’s Signature: ______________________________________________

 

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.