CEESA Robotics Bulgaria - Day 1

Competitors recently arrived to the Anglo-American School of Sofia and are preparing their robots to participate in the tournament.  We had a very nice welcoming ceremony where each team was introduced with a cheer from a host school class.  Stay tuned for more updates.

Don't forget, you can find more tournament information at the AAS tournament site.

Animal Allies Mission Videos

These videos can help you understand the missions that you will be programing your robot to complete for points during competitions.

Official FLL Video explaining each mission, no mention of point values:

If you are new to Lego Mindstorms check out this first video.  It features an EV3 robot completing some of the missions.  Keep in mind for each mission you must not just complete the mission objective, but also your robot must make it back to base without any help from a human:

Thanks Ms. Mahon for finding this video of kids explaining how they understand the mission to be completed in simple terms:

Each mission with point values explained:

Robot Game Missions - What are you supposed to do

Missions Rules - Written rules with pictures (scroll down to view)
Full Mission Video - Individual mission links below

M01. SHARK-TRANSPORT
M02. SERVICE DOG
M03. ANIMAL CONSERVATION
M04. FEEDING
M05. BIOMIMICRY
M06. MILKING AUTOMATION
M07. PANDA RELEASE
M08. CAMERA RECOVERY
M09. TRAINING AND RESEARCH
M10. BEE KEEPING
M11. PROSTHESIS
M12. SEAL
M13. MILK IN BASE
M14. MILK ON THE RAMP
M15. MANURE
PENALTIES

Challenges - Video

Mission Points Video

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

Meeting One Review:

We watched the video below and talked about gearing down.

We handed out this letter which needs to be completed and handed back to Mr. Lavoie.

Good job in almost completing the construction of all the tournament pieces.

In Comments below, tell us what you learned from the mini-lesson about gearing down. Why would anyone want to do this?

First Lego League Challenge for 2012

Take a  look at this year's mission. It's called Senior Solutions. Please watch the video by the first official full meeting--not the lunch meeting. Of course, you can watch it earlier if you want.

In comments, provide links to other good videos and resources which may be of help as we start thinking about how we will design our robots to compete in this year's challenge.

The official web page with detailed instructions for this mission can be found here.

 Please fill out this form and bring it to Mr. F or Mr. S. 

 Copy of Overview Letter handed out at first meeting here.

Build Instructions for Challenge Table here.

Thanks, and welcome to MS Robotics!