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We are creating Lego robotics workshops to develop the skills that children need to be successful in a FIRST Lego League competition as well as develop the confidence and joy that comes with sharing ideas and innovations in a team setting.
Come to one of our workshop events OR hold your own using our kid-tested robotics activities. |
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When most people hear about a Robotics Competition, they think it is reserved for the most cerebral kids that already have the passion and drive for math and perhaps already have been identified as gifted and talented. This is not the case for FLL. The FIRST competitions are developed to break that convention. Participation in FLL have a lot of opportunities for building skills beyond programming and mechanics skills.
School curriculum focuses on individual achievement and demonstration of skills against static standards. The FLL experience introducing kids to team dynamics and communication skills as a MUST in order to succeed, and challenges that have no predefined solution. It is sometimes shocking to see how unnatural this is for some kids, but the sooner they engage in this mode of learning, the better they are at being confident in their own ideas and seeds of innovation have been planted. |
The FLL program was created so that kids who might not consider themselves technical could come away thinking that science, technology, engineering and mathematics can actually be fun and reward and as exciting as any sporting event.
Our current challenge as coaches and mentors is helping kids to develop those basic skills that makes the experience rewarding instead of frustrating. The FLL Workshop is being developed to help solve that problem. |
