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

Getting Started

Once you have completed your robot design (chassis) you need to start looking at the missions and creating some programs.

Here are some good tutorials: http://www.stemcentric.com/nxt-tutorial/

These two videos will also help us get started with programming the NXT: