What does a Robotics Competition Look Like?

Begin with the end in mind.  This is one important idea to keep in mind when designing anything.

The activities in our first meeting of robotics were meant to help you to understand one of our goals as a team: create a robot to complete a set of tasks that earn points for our team.

As a beginner, watching clips from a competition can help you get an idea of what we will be doing.  Check out the first part of the video below or find a video you think will be helpful to the team.  To share your video, paste a link into the comments of this post.

Video of an FLL Robotics Competition from 2010

FLL Challenge for 2013

Hello SparkyBots. Welcome to a new year of Lego Robotics. 

Here are some things to get us started:

1) Take a quick look at the robotics letter.
2) Bookmark this blog into your Diigo bookmarks.

This year's challenge is called Nature's Fury. The FLL page with tons of info can be found at:  http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2013naturesfury

a. Nature's Fury Project Manual (Pdf)

b. Mission Building Instructions (Pdf)

3) Check out last year's Google Sheet we made to help us understand the missions.
4) Start adding in the YouTube links for the mission you've been assigned on this year's sheet.