Junior FIRST LEGO League

Las Vegas JFLL Coordinator web-blasts

Important information from the Coordinator to all the teams is via e-mails, called “web-blasts.” These are critical for team mentors/coaches to read ASAP; they provide timely details about the season and events.

 

WEB BLAST #1 (10/06/05)
Subject: JFLL "web blast" - print please :-)

Good afternoon! Welcome to Las Vegas’ first Junior Lego League Expo! As of Sept 30, when JFLL registration officially closed, we had almost 20 teams. Final count will be in a couple of days.

Would each of you please respond back to me letting me know which school, if any, your team is representing? Also let me know how many JFLL teams you have.

A couple of you are from out of town; the rest are some combination of public school/after school teams, home school teams, private school teams, GATE, etc.

Since this is a start-up for Las Vegas, please help each other work through issues. Please recall also that this is only the second year pilot, nationally and internationally. FIRST (headquartered in New Hampshire) is working on support materials this year, but JFLL is still new for them, so each of our communities is still sort of preparing things as we go.

I’ll be sending you periodic e-mails, as information/issues arise. Most of you have received our “Step by Step” from either me or Jean Hoppert; it is attached again. Other things to consider:

• Unlike the FLL teams, JFLL teams do not register separately for the Dec 3 tournament; that occurred when you registered your team.

 

• You should all have received your field set up kits (“Hot Buster” Racer kit, grey base plate, and one page instructions) – mailed when you registered. Some of you also ordered optional Ocean Odyssey kits when you registered; those should have arrived at your address by now also. And some of you are receiving your Odyssey kits from Jean Hoppert; those have arrived in town now. Please contact me, or Jean or FLL themselves, if you have not.

• Team safety – If you haven’t already and your team is an “after-school” one, please be clear on who is picking up kids from the team meetings – are they hand-delivered directly to a school Safekey program, has the parent given written permission for the child to walk home, or is a parent going to be picking the child up. A signup/check out sheet for each meeting would be useful for keeping track of kids.

 

• Broadly speaking, each team will be creating an ocean New Life Form, the Life Form’s Habitat, and a wind-up Motorized Vehicle; they’ll be researching/brainstorming what these things are to look like and then building them from Lego parts. The overall process of researching and building is to be captured on a “Show Me” board (like a science fair poster board) that the kids make. If you haven’t already, please check out the “Challenge” material on firstlegoleague.org website. www.firstlegoleague.org/nobanner.aspx?pid=17940

• The Las Vegas “Expo” is Dec 3 (Saturday) at Cimarron High School; details on that later.

 

• Time management – I assume team meetings can be about an hour a week – starting at the beginning of October, possibly ending as soon as the end of October, perhaps into November. Once you have worked through your administrative details, I don’t see that you need to do much prep work ahead of time for your teams. If you find that you do, please let me know.

• Speaking of administrative details, if you haven’t already, you’ll want to decide about field trips and T-shirts, whether kids have computer/internet access at home and whether you’re might want them to do some homework. If you do have them do on-line homework, please request that an adult monitor their web use. Make sure each team member has the event “consent form” signed before the Expo on Dec 3; it’s found on the JFLL webpage at the bottom.

 

• Some of you received grants which covered payment of your Ocean Odyssey kits; we now have grant apps that need to be filled out. Will send ASAP. Will also let you know right away if there is still grant money to purchase more kits. If so, it’ll be on a need/first come first served basis.

• Not required, but if you have a camera or video camera, taking pictures would be great. Just make sure you have written permission. Most public schools request signed forms (permission granted or denied) at the beginning of school, so you may already be covered. We want to put together a Las Vegas video which can be used for marketing and training after the end of this season. (Kind of like the PBS “Zoom” FLL team video, if any of you saw that.)

 

• I reviewed the Ocean Odyssey kit and the Hot Buster/Racers kit and double-checked with FIRST main headquarters. The “Racers” is intended to be used as a basis for building the “Motorized Vehicle;” the optional Ocean Odyssey kit is merely a box of extra parts that can be used to enhance (“add-on” to) the basic Motorized Vehicle, build the New Life Form and build the Life Form’s environment. Your team, however, can use whatever Lego parts it wants.

• Please let the kids do this and just give guidance; you should not be building these kits yourselves Let them be creative and have fun, giving them general goals. In Junior FLL, it is more important that they learn to work on a project in a group (FIRST calls it “gracious professionalism”) and learn the beginnings of project management (understanding goals, assigning tasks, working together, checking work, meeting deadlines, etc), than it is to build a perfect, brilliant project.

 

• Relax! Have fun! Let the kids do it! JFLL is Legos, not rocket science. I think most kids were born knowing what to do with them. J

• More, later! Anything else important that I haven’t covered between this e-mail, the attachment and the website, please let me know.

 

Susan Selby
Las Vegas Junior First Lego League, coordinator
702-658-0429
702-595-3453 (cell)

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WEB BLAST #2 (10/13/05)
Subject: JFLL webblast #2: 2 Ocean Odyssey kits still available

Some of your teams have received the optional Ocean Odyssey kits as a “grant”/“free of charge.” (I’ll get you the grant applications ASAP; more on that later.)

If any of you have not purchased an optional Ocean Odyssey kit and would like one, but lack of funds is preventing you from doing so, please let me know. We have two left. We’re giving them out on a first-come-first-served/“need” basis.

FYI, the Ocean Odyssey kit is for marine vessels (e.g., submarines), there are no plants and natural “habitat” stuff; colors are all yellow and grey.

Susan

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WEB BLAST #3 (10/19/05)
Subject: JFLL web-blast #3

A few more suggestions:

• In case there’s some confusion, the website is firstlegoleague.org. Click on “United States” and see the headings for Junior FLL Challenge. Currently, there is no separate website for the Junior FLL.

 

• When creating your motorized vehicle, please remember to follow the JFLL Challenge instructions for the passage way on the grey base plate – 12 dots wide minimum.

• ADDITIONAL CHALLENGE! Some of your JFLL teams have access to a Mindstorms kit – the Robot Invention System programmable robot that the older, FLL teams are building for the Dec 3 event. A few JFLL teams who have Mindstorms kits – perhaps one of the team members has one at home - have already indicated an interest in having their kids attempt to build the FLL robot for Dec 3 also, in addition to the JFLL Challenge. We are very much interested in seeing what our kids are capable of; what we learn this year will help with planning the Las Vegas season and event next year. Hence, I’ll be creating a mini-challenge for those “pilot” robots this week and e-mailing it to any JFLL teams interested. “Pilot” teams would build the basic FLL robot and program it to do the steps I outline in the mini-challenge. It would not be as complicated as the tasks/missions that the FLL teams will be doing, nor will it require the additional pieces and field set up kits that the FLL teams have. On Dec 3, those teams would each show their robot doing the mini-challenge (in addition to their JFLL challenge), but in a non-competitive setting. If you have a Mindstorms kit and want to have your JFLL team also build, program and exhibit a Mindstorms FLL robot at the Dec 3 event, please let me know by the end of next week, earlier if you know for sure now. There is no additional registration fee for this; if you already have the Mindstorms kit, you do not need to buy any additional parts. Sorry, no grants available for purchasing Mindstorms kits for JFLL teams.

 

Susan

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Subject: Blast #4 - The FLL Mini Challenge (aka Pilot or Demo) - Optional for JFLL teams

For those of you who want to have your JFLL teams build and program the older kids’ FLL robot using RIS Mindstorms technology, here’s the Mini Challenge that each of those JFLL teams will perform on Dec 3. Again, this is not a competition; it’s a chance to let the younger kids have fun trying what the older kids are doing without the pressure of competing; it’s also to see what the younger ones are capable of. Please let me know by this coming Friday Oct 28, if your JFLL team is planning on performing this optional FLL “Mini-Challenge” on Dec 3.

The Robot

• Build the basic robot, called “Roverbot” (page 8 of the Constructopedia). You’ll need the Wheel Sets (page 17), the Driving Base (page 12), and the Double Bumper (page 30).
• Keep Roverbot “as is” or dress him (or her) up with other Lego parts; just don’t block the basic functionality (e.g., the infrared sensor) with your add-ons.
• Stress with your team that they need to follow those directions exactly, or Roverbot may not do what they program it to do.
• Do a floor check every time after building; those tiny parts like to travel!

 

The Program

• Use Mindstorms Robot Invention System (RIS) or RoboLab (I’m only familiar with RIS so you’re on your own with questions about RoboLab.)
• Load the program on your computer including the driver for the IR tower; keeping the program on your CD drive takes way too long! Make sure the IR tower is hooked up.
• Once RIS is loaded, have the team do the “Tour” and the “Missions.” At least do the “Basic” Training Missions - “Introduction” through #6; the “Advanced” ones are not necessary to do this Mini-Challenge. When the team is ready to write the program, get back to the Main Menu, pick “Program”; then “Pick a Robot”, which is “Roverbot,” and start programming.

 

The Playing Field

• We’re going to use the same size playing field that the FLL teams are using – a 4 x 8 foot board with sides. You don’t need to build one of these! Just create a space on the floor (or table) approximately that size, and put a box or a 2x4 board at one of the 4-foot sides, so there’s an obstruction for the Roverbot to bump into.

 

• To get the movements right (like a 90-degree turn), use the floor; I tried using the rug, but its friction makes the robot slower than on a slicker surface. (Hey, a teaching opportunity about friction!) The Playing Field at Dec 3 will have the same type of rubberized mat that the FLL teams use; a linoleum floor is probably the most similar surface to practice on.

The Mini Challenge

• The Roverbot will start at one end of the 4 x 8 foot box, do some things on its way to the opposite end where its double-bumper touch sensor will hit that wall; the Roberbot will then turn around, do some more things, and go back to where it started.

 

• Most of the functions are very simple – “big blocks” like “turn left.” The teams will have very little to figure out on their own, mostly things like how to make their turns exact (e.g., half and quarter turns) and how many seconds to do certain things.

• If you want to embellish – add more functionality (e.g., sounds) -- please feel free. However . . .

 

• Maximum amount of time from start to finish is 90 seconds including embellishments, so we can keep on schedule.

• Roverbot has to be pre-programmed and hands-free; only touch it during its performance if it’s going haywire.

 

• Orient the playing field (space on the floor or table) so that one 4-foot end is south, the opposite is north; the 8-foot sides are east and west. Start Roverbot in the SE corner, on the east wall, facing west.
• Move Roverbot forward 3 seconds.
• Turn right 90 degrees/1/4 turn (figure out how to make that turn exact if you can J)
• Move forward 3 secs
• Spin around left in a complete circle/360 degrees (figure it out J)
• Move forward 3 secs
• Spin around right in a complete circle/360 degrees (figure it out J)
• Move forward 3 secs
• Dance for 1 time
• Move forward until Roverbot bumps the north wall
• Beep (Hint: this is a “small” block)
• Wait 1 sec
• Turn Roverbot around one-half circle/180 degrees/facing the opposite (south) wall (figure it out J)
• Move forward to the other end of the box/south wall (figure out the time J)
• Turn left before it hits the wall
• Move forward 1 second
• Stop (Hint: You can use an “Advanced” block for “end program.”)

The team/the coach(s)

• During the Dec 3 event, only team members and a coach can be at the playing field while the team’s Roverbot is performing. (Sorry, no “supporters.”) For now it’s okay for all the team members (up to 5) to be at the playing field. However, the coach will need to designate only one team member to touch Roverbot if that is part of the performance (an “add-on” functionality) or if Roverbot is going haywire (e.g. going the wrong direction.). As we get closer to the event day, we may find that fewer team members may be allowed (just like the FLL teams) at the field, if time/space becomes limited.

 

• Please let the kids do this. (I must say this after confessing that I am a linear-thinking, goal-driven parent who ran her son off the computer so she could get the right number of seconds figured out for a “spin.” YIKES.) Let them build and let them do their quality control. After they’ve seen the tutorials, let them do the programming. You’re there to make sure they’ve got all the resources (parts, program, etc.), keep them on-task, do crowd control, teach teamwork, give technical guidance if they need it, teach if there’s a teachable moment, have fun. Please also observe – which skills are you seeing the kids generally capable of at this age, which are they realistically not. We’ll be asking your opinions after the event. J

Susan

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WEB BLAST #5 (10/28/06)
Subject: Ocean Odyssey grant applications filled out (Web blast #5)

Good afternoon!

A number of you have received Ocean Odyssey kit “grants” We need the attached grant application filled out and e-mailed back to Jean Hoppert (please cc me on that e-mail.) Note we need the first section by Nov 7 (Tuesday).

Section 1 (start of season) – due Nov 7, 2005
Section 2 (team letter) – due Dec 1, 2005
Section 3 (end of season) – due Dec 31, 2005

If you have already given Jean any of these components, please let me know which ones.

Thanks.

Susan

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WEB BLAST #6 (11/2/05)
Subject: #6 web blast - JFLL Mindstorms robot demo

Which of your teams are planning on doing this on Dec 3? I need a head (team) count by this Friday (Nov 4) at the latest.

Thanks!

Susan

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WEB BLAST #7 (11/3/05)
Subject: Web blast #7 - Mini-challenge/demo with programmed Mindstorms robot

Sorry, I was unclear.

Hopefully all you Junior FLL teams will be participating on Dec 3 with the Junior FLL components (creature, habitat, etc.). From the e-mails I received, that seems to be the case. Great!

What I am asking, though, is which of your Junior FLL teams are ALSO building a separate Mindstorms robot (programmed with Robotics Invention System or Robolab)? (This is the same basic robot as the one that the older, FLL teams are building.) And, more importantly for our Dec 3 planning purposes, are you going to program the little demo I sent to you all (Blast #4) and then run your robot with that demo on Dec 3?

Susan

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WEB BLAST #8 (11/8/05)
Subject: #8 web-blast – JFLL

• The FLL/JFLL planning team is finalizing the details of the Saturday Dec 3 event at Cimarron High; you should have it this week. These are the events, at least conceptually . . .

1. Each team will be judged for its creature/habitat and “motorized” vehicle, along with the “Show Me” poster.
2. We will then have some race “heats” or “preliminaries” for the fastest and/or the farthest vehicles: 5 teams per heat, 4 consecutive heats. The winner of each of those heats will then compete in a final race to see which vehicle is the fastest and which one travels the farthest.
3. We will also have a “promenade” – FIRST calls it “All Wound Up.” Each team will place its grey base plate and environment in one long line along the floor; then each team – one right after the other - will run its “motorized” vehicle down the 12-dot wide space on all the base-plates.
4. The 3 JFLL teams who also built and programmed the Mindstorms robot will do the mini-challenge/demonstration on a 4x8 foot playing field.
5. Awards ceremony.

 

• Looks like all 20 JFLL teams will be attending the Dec 3 event. You should bring your 3 Lego components - creature, habitat/environment on the grey base-plate, wind-up/motorized vehicle - along with their show-me poster.

• In addition, 3 of the 30 JFLL teams are planning on attempting the mini-challenge/demonstration – building and programming the same robot (Mindstorms technology) that the older teams (FLL) are. They’ll be demonstrating that mini-challenge on Dec 3.

 

• JFLL grey base plates – don’t forget to leave at least a 12-dot wide space down the entire length of your base plate. (Recall there’s a picture on the firstlegoleague.org website under the JFLL challenge section.) When all the base-plates are connected during the “All Wound Up” event on Dec 3, each team’s windup vehicle will travel down that 12-dot wide space.

• Windup/Motorized vehicle - Start checking your vehicle to see how far and fast it can go. It’s got to be narrow enough to pass through the 12-dot wide space on the base-plates during the “All Wound Up” promenade. You also want it as stable as possible for the races (rubberbands might work). Remember, the JFLL is only in its second year of existence throughout the country; last year there were no races that we’re aware of. We thought it might be fun to try them in Las Vegas. Let’s see what works (and what doesn’t. J)

 

• The key to the event is to have fun and learn. Judging for JFLL is gentle and brief; each child gets a medallion and each team will have some kind of an award certificate. The races are competitive by definition, but should be pretty amusing. Seeing what the older teams are doing should also be pretty exciting.

• Please e-mail me if you have questions I haven’t covered. Again, we’ll send out the schedule for Dec 3 event this week after they’re finalized.

 

Susan

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WEB BLAST #9 (11/16/05)
Subject: Blast #9 - team names – ASAP

What are each of your team names? Please let me know ASAP; we’re printing a program this week. (I just realized I have folks e-mails but no team names.)

Thanks.

Susan

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Subject: JFLL Blast #10 - Saturday, Dec 3 JFLL schedule

1. Hope you all are doing well and still having fun, although everyone’s probably feeling a bit urgent, given the holidays and the little time left until Dec 3.

 

2. Remember to think about how you’re going to keep the vehicle together. It’s going to be wound up and raced to see which is the fastest and which one goes the farthest. It’s also going to be wound up and run down 20 connected baseplates (All Wound Up 20-Vehicle Parade.). I’m suggesting rubberbands if you want to reuse parts later; glue if not. Or whatever else you can think of. Also think about that baseplate when cars are racing on it during the “All Wound Up” 20-vehicle parade.

3. Transportation - Figure out how to get kids and parts to/from the event – parents, friends, coaches. I’m pretty sure different schools have different rules about teachers driving students. Also, these Lego creations are pretty fragile in the car, without some precautions (e.g., boxes.)

 

4. Event Day, Saturday December 3:

• Cimarron Memorial High School - Park in the student parking lot, which is on the south side of the school up by the football field.  The school is at 2301 N. Tenaya Way, on Tenaya between Smoke Ranch and Lake Mead (north of Lake Mead.). Go in through the main gates; there’ll be plenty of signs from there. The event is being held in the gymnasium. Any of you out-of-towners, use MapQuest.com or e-mail me.
• 9:30 is team registration –Check in at the main gym (west side of the quad). You’ll be given a team number, assigned judging times, directed to your table, and any other details you’ll need. Please have the student release forms complete/signed prior to Saturday, and turn them in at check in.  After check in, proceed to the aux. gym, which is through the doors at the back of the main gym.
• 10:00 a.m. team judging/interviews start, and go through roughly 10:20. Your entire team plus coach (not friends and relatives, sorry!) will need to be at your table at your assigned time, all set up with baseplate habitat, creature, windup vehicle, and your “Show Me” poster. If you’re not there at your time, you miss your judging. The judges will be at each team’s table at your assigned judging time; they’ve got 10 minutes to ask the kids some questions, and then they’re on to the next team. Be ready, and I’d say be ready 5 – 10 minutes early. (Maybe keep 1 -2 parent spotters at the table early, if you can’t keep the kids clustered that long; have an adult assigned to handle the last-minute urgent bathroom requests, if you think necessary.)
• 11:20 Races start, going through roughly 11:50 – 12:00; we’re racing 5 vehicles at a time on the floor; one batch of 5 vehicles after the next. There’ll be a preliminary winner of the farthest and the fastest from each of those “heats.” Those preliminary winners will then all race.
• Roughly 12:00 starts the Robot Demo of the 3 teams who also built and programmed their robot. That’ll also move very quickly; one team sets its robot down on the 4 x 8 board playing field, when the robot is done, the next team is ready to run its robot, and so on.
• Right after the Robot Demo, there will be about a 15 minute break to repair robots, grab some lunch, and get each team’s baseplate habitat lined up.
• 12:30 – 12:50 is the All Wound Up vehicle parade on the 20 baseplates. Right after that we’ll announce and hand out each team’s (all 20 teams) award certificate (“The Most Creative,” etc.) Every team gets a certificate. We’ll also have a few small “trophies” - one for the winner of the fastest vehicle, one for the vehicle that goes the farthest, and a “Best of Show.” However, this event is less about winning and losing and more about having fun, so each team gets a award certificate.
• 1:00 begins the older kids’ FLL ceremony, so we’ll have to have our kids and vehicles and baseplates out of the area immediately after the All-Wound Up.

5. Tables for teams – 2 teams per table, so you’ll have to split up the space in half. They’re round tables (only ones available), so do what you can. I’m not aware of any chairs. Team names on banners or posterboard (or whatever) will need to be taped to the table or free-standing (no walls nearby.)
6. Bathrooms – standard ones at the gym. The schedule is pretty tight; I’d suggest taking a team “trip” during the registration (9:30 – 10:00; judging starts right at 10:00), and during the noon break. Accompanying parents/adults will be helpful.
7. Eating – there will be concessions there. I doubt if folks can bring their lunches, but I’ll check.
8. Cameras – Please bring your own if you wish; if you want team shots, you’ll need to take your own. There will be video-taping going on by the event coordinator, but that’ll be to hopefully make a video of the event at a later date.
9. Forms to sign – Bring the student “release” form for each of your team kids – most of you probably already collected those; it’s the one you’ve seen on the firstlegoleague.org website and/or Jean or I have sent you. Also, some of you who have grants for the Ocean Odyssey kits; you all will have turned in the first part to Jean; the “team” letters need to be brought to the event, too, if you haven’t already provided those.
10. FLL (older teams) event will be going on all day, starting early in the morning until 4:30 in the same gym. Hope you take some time to wander around and observe. We deliberately scheduled both the JFLL and FLL events together. Some pretty extensive effort and team work goes on and it’s a learning experience for the younger kids just to watch all that.

 

Susan

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WEB BLAST #10.1 (11/22/05)
Subject: JFLL Web Blast #10.1 - revision

Blast #10 said “10:00 a.m. team judging/interviews start, and go through roughly 10:20.”

Typo. That would be 11:20.

Susan

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WEB BLAST #11 (11/29/05)
Subject: JFLL web blast #11

Good morning! A couple of last minute things.

1. Anyone needing food during the event will need to purchase it at one of the concessions. Kids can get lunch for $5 or less. No eating/drinking allowed in the gym; that’ll need to occur outside in front of the lobby (where you came in.) Those are Cimarron’s rules.

 

2. Please make sure you’ve got the signed release forms (parent/guardian) for each of your team’s kids. We don’t want to have to turn anyone away at the door.

3. There’s still a bit of confusion on the timing of the JFLL and FLL events. JFLL events are occurring from 9:30 – 1:00 (JFLL team check-in starts at 9:30.) Details were in my web-blast #10. The three JFLL teams who are also doing the Robot Demo will be doing so during that time period. (See same web-blast.) FLL events are occurring from 8:30 – 4:30. (FLL team check-in starts at 8:30.)

 

4. If you’re one adult bringing a group of kids, you might consider bringing something to keep the kids occupied if need be – books, coloring, more Legos to build J, etc. (More adults of course makes you more flexible – bathroom breaks, eating, seeing FLL events, etc.)

5. Eating and bathroom breaks are really going to be as you can find time. (A suggestion - maybe buy lunches ahead of the brief noon-ish break so you’ve got them when you need them.) Both the JFLL and FLL schedules are very tight, in order to get in all the events and yet not make the day impossibly long for the kids.

 

6. Enjoy!

Susan

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WEB BLAST #12 (12/7/05)
Subject: "Thank you" and surveys

Greetings!

Now that the 2004/2005 Junior FIRST Lego League season is over, I would like to say “thank you” to all of you for your efforts. Thank you! J

If you attended our big event on Saturday, you will have seen that our teams represented a mix of public and private schools, “gifted” public school classes and home schools. I think some teams were taught during the school day, others I know were taught after school. We even had some teams from outside the Las Vegas Valley and we are grateful you traveled this far to attend! What amazing work! (I was the lady yelling at the kids and parents during the races – “get BACK!” and trying to MC the Robot Demo teams with a newly-dead mike.)

I know for many this was a big time commitment, but I also know it was greatly appreciated -- by myself and more importantly, by the parents. Many of you probably got into this like I did – as a test: Let’s see if this Junior FLL concept can be a useful tool that will begin to give kids more group interaction skills (the beginnings of “gracious professionalism”) and begin to interest them in technology (sneaking in the seeds of usefulness in learning math and science and the applied sciences J),  using a medium many kids already enjoy – Legos.

Well, I think we all gave this pilot Junior Lego League concept a good run for the money. There were undoubtedly frustrations and annoyances (“Oh, Geece Fleece! We forgot to order team T-shirts for the coaches!!!”), as we created this “league” essentially from scratch. However, with your candid feedback (both “good” and “bad”), everyone can assess whether it’s worthwhile to continue in some fashion next year or not.

We (will) have several surveys, but please feel free to e-mail me (or Jean Hoppert) any feedback you wish, regardless of the surveys.

• The national organization (FIRST LEGO League) has a simple, coaches’ survey; please fill out. JFLL Coaches Survey link (put cursor anywhere on address below and hit “enter”):
  http://www.usfirst.org/wsurveys/FMPro?-db=wCollector_.fp5&-lay=web_survey&-format=start.html&t_spu=76-zefe&-new
  
• Those of you teams who received Ocean Odyssey grants may recall that there’s that final page, due December 31. (attached form.)

 

• The Las Vegas planning team will have its own survey to send you, to get into specifics. There are of course many administrative details, but I’ll be particularly interested in what you observed the kids learning (or not learning.) So, stay tuned for that one.

Are any of you interested in having me create a survey that you can give to your kids’ parents? If so, let me know. Also, if you’ve got good pictures you’re willing to share, please send them to me!

Happy Wednesday!

Susan

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WEB BLAST #13 (12/16/05)
Subject: Nevada Expo Coaches' survey

Good afternoon!

Here is the “Coaches’ Survey” I mentioned forthcoming in my last e-mail to you. It is 2 pages.  I hope you find some time to fill it out; all comments/suggestions will be helpful in planning next year’s season/event. If you’d rather just call me directly, that would be fine also.

If you can, I’d like this some time in January. We’ll start planning in February for the next year’s season.

Thank you much!

Happy holidays!

Susan

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Dec 05 Expo/Event (pictures and captions only)

Judging
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Judging
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Model/environs on base plate
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Model/vehicle races

 

“All Wound Up” final event

Awards – All teams

“Best of Show” and race winner trophies
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