Workshops

FIRST LEGO League Guide To A Successful Season

I have developed a website that contains everything we learned coaching FLL for 8 seasons. We had great success reaching state every single year and winning the state of Iowa award to compete internationally.


Check everything out here to go into greater detail.

FIRST LEGO League Starting Point Strategies

    • Do you measure distances to all things on the mat?
      • Create a chart
      • Avoid Point and Shoot Method deployed by many
      • You are not SpaceX

Strategy: Create zones/grouping for board breakdown?

Mindset: The Martian "Do The Math!"

  • Wheel circumference
    • diameter and width is written on drive tires
    • unit on tires are mm so convert to inches
    • Hint: balloon or EV3 is 6.91 inches so can you figure out how I calculated this?
    • Determine distance with rotations, seconds, and degrees to travel 1 inch
      • This leads you to use of MATH BLOCKS!
        • A*B
        • A = distance travelled in inches
        • B = number of degrees to travel 1 inch
  • Angles of lines to follow
  • Distances to key points
  • Parallel lines with walls
  • Right Angles
  • Perpenidcular lines
  • Square robot on a line with dual light sensor
  • Square robot on a wall with rear bumpers
  • Proportial thinking to move precise distances or turns