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2012-13 Resources for New Teams (FLL/FTC/FRC)

On this page we've aggregate past and new resources from our team's work. Enjoy.

PREVIOUS RESOURCES
New Teams Click Here for Tons of Resources: A collection from past years.

Cool group exercises for team building. Get Them Now!  Fun ways to torture your team while vastly improviing their communications skills.

TOTALLY COOL! DON'T MISS THIS: The Coolest Activity Ever: Learn to Write Documentation.
From our 2007 Site  //  From our 2008 Site

The ultimate helper for mission planning: Mission Cards. One of the simplest way to work on FLL missions.

NEW RESOURCES

(FLL, FTC, FRC) Our Talk at the Baltimore Area Alliance FRC Training Day on Nov 3, 2012 at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Our Motivational Talk for New Teams
(FLL, FTC, FRC)

UPDATED 9/22/2012
TECH_TeamTipsMDBG-2012-FLL-FTC-R.pdf

Includes three new bonus tips:
* Never ask a Yes/No Question
* Never allow a student to answer a question with a question
* Lt. Dan Rule

This PPT includes a full range of motivational tips and suggestions for new and existing teams. It is applicable to FLL, FTC, and FRC.

Topics include:

  • Seven Tips for New Coaches
  • Team Branding
  • Teaching your Teams to Speak Good Well
  • Super Bonus Tips (Lt. Dan and Yes No)
  • Where to go FIRST

Supplemental Documents

Mark Twain's Essay, "First Interview With Artemus Ward." One the best examples of saying nothing for a long time.
MarkTwain.pdf

A Bunch-o-FLL-Bots from the US Ohio Open a few Years Ago. Use this to show the crazy range of engineering creativity.
TechBrick-TeamTipsMDBG-2011-FLL-Bots.pdf

A whole pallet of FRC crates showing the range of artistic expression in the program.
TechBrick-TeamTipsMDBG-2012-FTC-Crates.pdf

 

   

NEW! Planning your FLL Project

TECH_ProjectPresentation-2012-FLL-V01.pdf

FIRST® LEGO® League: The Project

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Planning an Engineering Notebook

TechBrick-EngineeringNotebook.2.pdf

Chris Hoppel, one of our veteran FTC/FRC mentors, has compiled his thoughts from our team's work over the past few years.

 

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