3. What are these 4 basic
needs of Youth?
Belonging—
Finding that you have things in
common with others and you are
accepted and made to feel part of the
group
Mastery — Encouraged to try new
experiences and find out what
things you are good at
4. What are these 4 basic
needs of Youth?
Independence—
Giving youth a choice in what they will
do and a voice in where the group is
headed
Generosity— When youth belong, feel
that they have skills they have
accomplished and are given choices,
youth will choose to share with others
of their knowledge time and skills
6. What can this robot do with your
Programming and Engineering Design?
7. Robots do 4 Basic Kinds of
tasks
Dirty
Dull
Dangerous
Delicate
Resource Page
8. Two Great Starts to understanding
Robot Programming
Robot Programming Fundamentals Video
– http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/previews/nxt_pro
ducts/nxt_video_trainer/partial_product/basics/thinkin
g/thinking.html
Programming is Precise Just click on Big Idea 1-2
– http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/content/lego/ev3/
curriculum/preview/
9. What is 4-H FIRST LEGO
League?
Teams of up to 10 kids and
guided by at least one adult
coach, team members have
about 10 weeks to work on
the Annual Challenge
Each annual Challenge has
two parts, the Project and
the Robot Game
10. The 3 Rs of
FIRST LEGO League
Robots– learning to program the robots, build
add-ons to accomplish the tasks set forth in the
challenge on the Challenge Field in the 2.5 minute
opportunity to showcase their robot and
programming
Research- Learning about the challenge and
how our community can make a difference and
presenting it in a creative way
Report– Defend the robot, your programming,
your teamwork and your research project
11. FIRST LEGO League Core
Values
We are a team
We do the work to find solutions with guidance
from our coaches and mentors
We honor the spirit of friendly competition
What we discover is more important than what we
win
We share our experiences with others
We display gracious professionalism in everything
we do
We have fun
12.
13. FIRST LEGO League 4-H
Clubs
Decision-making
Communication
Leadership
And Citizenship—Connecting
research to community
Open House Presentations
County Fair Club Project and
Demonstrations
16. Regional Competition
Project Research Presentation
•Research a community
connection to the year’s
theme
•Brainstorm a way your
community could impact that
theme
•Plan a project to impact that
theme
•Plan a creative way to share
•Share it with the community
•5 Minutes including Setup
17. Regional Competition
Robotics Challenge
•2 ½ minutes to complete as
many missions as possible
•Only 2 members at the board
at one time…can tag and
change
•Use only one robot
•Must practice changing
apparatuses so that doesn’t
slow you up
•Don’t shy away from
Regional if you only have a
few missions completed
18. 2016 Challenge
Animal Allies Your Project mission this season
is to look into the eyes of our
ANIMAL ALLIES. What might
become possible when we learn
to help each other?. In the Animal
Allies Project, your team will:
Identify opportunities to work with animals
in our communities
Design an innovative solution to the
problem you select
Share your problem and solution with
others
FLL challenges kids to
think like scientists and
engineers.
19. How do teams get Started?
1. Starting to build the LEGO pieces that make up
each of the missisons
– You will download the instructions for building the
Mission Model Pieces
– Check out the Mission pieces, pictures and video of the
how the constructed LEGO piece fits into the Animal
Allies Challenge on Youtube when the challenge is
released on August 28 …see what your Robot has to do
to accomplish each mission
– Lay out the mat and start building the pieces that go on
it
20. How do we get started?
2. Jump into the Challenge Theme “Animal Allies”
for 2016. To begin your Animal Allies project, As a
Team – Choose an animal that we could work
with in our communities. It might be finding and
putting animals to work with people or could be
providing services for animals or a connection to
animals for parts of our population.
21. How do we get started?
This would be a great time to invite someone in to
talk to your team…an expert who works with
animals in your community…..
22. How do we get started?
3. Start learning about building the robot and
programming it
a) Build a robot…there are lots of sites online to help you
design the building of your robot. Just get one built so
you can start programming. Just Google LEGO EV3
Building Instructions
a) Build the standard Driving Base in Manual with kit
b) Begin the EV3 Tutorial in the programming software or
online to learn how to use the software to program the
robot
Notes de l'éditeur
Candy on each person’s seat with handout
Split up candy so that we hand out three kind of candies….Snickers, Milky Way and 3 Musketeers to split up the groups into three different sections
Welcome, we are excited that you are interested in learning more about LEGO Mindstorm NXT Robots and the fun and learning that can take place for youth in building and if they choose competing in the Iowa FIRST LEGO League Competition.
FIRST LEGO League is a competition where teams of up to 10 youth from ages 9-14 participate in equipping a robot to accomplish up to 20 tasks on a Challenge Field. Each year there is a different Challenge. This year the Challenge is Climate Connection so teams are challenged to complete tasks on the Challenge Field that deal with the study of Climate and working with Climate challenges in their communities. I won’t go any further into the FLL as we have the Iowa FIRST LEGO League contact here and she will go more heavily into the FIRST LEGO League program.
Kids are really excited to work with the NXT Robots. They love playing with LEGOs and we had over 30 kids sign up wanting to join our FIRST LEGO League 4-H Club.
So what is a LEGO Mindstorm Robot
It is actually a fairly simple but sophisticated Robotics system that you can use to build programmable machines and robots.
It starts with the Brick or Computer base which is a small computer which the youth will learn to program
They run up to 3 motors which allow It to move and operate a additional tools such a s opening and closing a tool that can grab things or move a piece up or down to capture objects
and up to four different sensors to give it some ability to react to it’s surroundings…
The sensors are a touch sensor gives your robot the sense of touch , the light sensor can distiinguish between light and dark colors it may encounter on the surface and guide your robot, an ultrasonic metter that can detect how far away from something you are and a sound sensor which allows your robot to detect sounds and react
I don’t want to get too complicated with the sensors because you will mostly work with kids on the mechanical attachments they will build to accomplish tasks.
These are simple robots…the one on the left is set up to strike the ball like a golf club and the one on the right is your base robot for attaching implements to for accomplishing tasks.
Click on What can you do with it? And Alt-Tab to IE to see video on what is it.
Don’t worrry…you don’t have to know that much about the robot as the kids will start building almost immediatedly and far exceed what you would have built.
I was amazed at our kids and how quickly they got into building off the base to get to a working robot that could do things.
Slide 2—Vibrancy and Enthusiasm
Briefly (within 30 seconds), introduce self, club, and give one example of what energized you from the last 4-H year.
(If group is large, introductions can be done in small groups.)