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:

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