The First Jr. FLL Meeting
We met with all the kids and parents tonight in the first meeting of the two teams sponsored by Xerox at Byrom Elementary. Bob, Steve, Stephanie and I are coaches and we passed on the information tonight that we will have roughly 10 meetings to meet the Lego challenge of climate connections.
One good lesson I think we learned tonight is that it is really hard for a group of kids to talk and think about Legos for an hour and not actually get to play with Legos! But tonight we had a mission to convey the information about what we are going to be doing over the next three months. Our teams’ challenge is to build an instrument/robot that would be useful for a scientist to measure or study climate. The first step toward doing this is to research what a climate is and how scientists study it. The next step will be to come up with some great ideas on where that happens and what the kids can build that would help. Building the model and making a poster about the teams’ solutions come next.
We focused on information and team naming. The older group came up with the Rocky Robots! The younger team is Team Bobcat Fire! Go teams!
Next week: Putting hands to some Legos and brainstorming what to build.
The kids both start their Lego League pursuit this month. Rachel has her first Lego League meeting tomorrow and Priam his first at the end of September. I’ll be a coach for Priam’s team and I have no doubt that he and his fellow teammates will cook up a variety of creative solutions to tackle this year’s Lego challenge: 