Let the games begin !

The 2012 First Lego League challenge has been issued! We are officially under way. After 6 months of fund raising, getting to know one another and learning to work as a team, we finally know what we have to achieve.

The full challenge document is available by following this link...

http://firstlegoleague.org/sites/default/files/Challenge/SeniorSolutions/FLL2012SENIORSOLUTIONSChallengeAnchors.pdf

In brief, there are three parts to the challenge

PART 1 - THE PROJECT

In brief we have to "Find a senior partner". This means finding someone over the age of 60 whom we can ask lots of questions of in order to identify a potential problem that he/she has experienced through ageing.

Next we have to learn as much about this problem as we can by doing lots of research about it and finding out what solutions are currently being developed.

We then either develop these solutions further or come up with a completely new solution which we then present to a group of people for feedback.

This whole process is then presented to the FLL judges on competition day. There are some good examples on the first Lego league channel on you tube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=first+lego+league+2011+food+factor&oq=first+lego&gs_l=youtube.1.2.35i39j0l9.3673.7902.0.16399.10.10.0.0.0.0.106.906.8j2.10.0...0.0...1ac.N6Nw95O5vn4

PART 2 - THE ROBOT GAME

The teams are provided with a field kit which consists of a mat and several exclusive Lego models which the robot has to operate. The models are all based around the years challenge. The robot has to be built from Lego Mindstorm technology and be programmed. No remote control allowed. The robot then has to complete the challenges posed by the models. As many as it can in in 2 and half minutes, scoring as highly as we can. Examples can be seen at the link above.

PART 3 - THE CORE VALUES

Both of the above parts have to be completed according to the core values of FLL which can be found at First Lego League. To comply with this we have already done loads of team building things and fundraising but we kick off our season tomorrow with a 'treasure hunt' round Manchester city centre.

Let the games begin !