Impact study among participants of the first lego league asturias ctic foundation

Impact study among participants of the FIRST LEGO League Asturias 2010, organized by CTIC Foundation -Information Society Research conducted by the technical team of CTIC Foundation - Information Society

“It was a unique and unbeatable experience. I learnt teamwork and now I “It was like having the feeling of losing know that science, technology and “I would recommend it to a friend because and winning at the same time ... mathematics are more than just school the effort needed will be less than the Something that cannot be described o subjects, but things that can help you to final reward you obtain when making imagine. I discovered what I wanted to solve problems and can be fun” and transmitting all your work” do with my life: to create, assemble, analyze and calculate. It was so cool that I would like them to give me another robot to assemble! " “In a word: impressive. I think its a unique, maddening, stressful and funny experience, “It was a good experience. I learnt many things: and most important, it was an opportunity about science with the scientific project, for young people to make new friends, about technology and programming with the thanks to the atmosphere offered by this robot. I have also made new friends and have experience” had a lot of fun. We learnt how to organize work and how to do it well, and finally we managed to do it” “At first I didn’t want to participate because I believed it would be too complicated, but afterwards I began to like it. Once in the FLL I “All the things we learned (technology, met many people and made new friends at science, teamwork ...) . I have also met the same time I learnt. I really liked it” new people and have found things in me that I didn’t know I had” Participants “In the FLL you learn teamwork, how to“It was a great experience and I would repeat without thinking deal with other people and distribute twice, because all the hours I spent were good for something the work” and were rewarded. There were sad, happy and anger moments, but we were always a team and when one of us did not believe in the work, the others did, so the good times outweighed the bad ones and it was a very worthy experience” “Very interesting, I learnt how to handle design software, to program the robot and now I know what study option I want”

This document is a summary of some of theconclusions provided by the three groups thatparticipated in the study:

Participants• Most of them emphasize teamwork, not only as a skill improved, but also as one of the aspects they most liked.• Among the positive feedbacks, they highlight learning, having contact with innovative issues, having fun and achieving interpersonal relationships, both within the team and with other teams in the final event.• They also consider they have improved their ability to understand the utility of science and technology to solve real problems and to use new technologies and audiovisual language. They also appreciate an improvement in their understanding of the differences among people. Overall satisfaction with the activity is very high, which they describe as different, fun and stimulating. Almost 90% express their desire to repeat the experience and all of them would recommend it to a friend..

Coaches• They think it has had a great impact on the ability to work in groups.• They report a positive impact on programming and communication skills, self-esteem, creativity, innovation and interest in Science and Technology.• Appreciate a substantial change regarding the involvement and motivation of their students, that is not observed in other school activities. They consider that Asturias FLL has not only brought benefits to team members, but they themselves have often learned whith the participants and the experience has helped them to develop teaching strategies in the classroom.

“They trained even at Christmas and Easter holidays, which does not happen with other [About their communication skills] "They worked hard activities. They were able to manage their with their presentation (...) this gave them, not so much “It was a great experience for them” scientific knowledge, but experience ... Those who were own time and had tutoring sessions by phone with their tutor” very shy participated actively and managed to overcome their fears and embarrassments ... “ “It was very motivating to be able to contact “During school activities we have times for expert scientists and get answers and support team working, but it doesnt normally from them. Children were aware that science work well: usually one person does the was not something secret and inaccessible” work and the rest take advantage of it… here teamwork worked extremely well” “The experience was worth value: the idea is very good, everybody likes… just great” “What they most liked was the research work they carried out themselves, the conclusions and the solutions they came to” Coaches “Several colleagues congratulated me for the job. They had no idea and could not imagine the amount of work needed behind”“People was surprised about being on the radio and the newspapers… And the same day of the competition I saw a lot of families from the school apart from the participants’ ones” “This experience was well reported at school. During the following weeks everybody spoke about it at school. Now a lot of people wants to participate”

Families• All of them highlight the teamwork as one of the great achievements of the activity.• They also refer to the Science and Technology knowledge and their understanding about how they can be used to solve real problems, as well as the improvement in communication skills.• They believe the activity has helped their children to develop their capacity for hard work and their organizational skills. It was observed a significant impact on their motivation level, much higher than in any other activity in which they had participated. They believe, moreover, that it has awaken in some cases, and intensify in others, the interest in other scientific and technological issues.

“They need to see the practical part of what they do. When something has a result that is there and can be seen, such as “This is the first time I see him so motivated with the robot, they give more importance to the work they are something” doing” “It was the first time I heard my son saying [Referring to teamwork] "It was a qualitative change: to recognize "I want to work there” the skills of each team member, accept what the others do and what each one contributes to the team ... It was an important step”" The problem they have at this age is that they haveto decide what they want to study, but they don’t know “He learnt to have a work discipline which he what the jobs will be like. This activity helps them didn’t have before” understand what their future job could be like ” “I liked the kids attitudes, I was greatly surprised and I think it was a very positive experience” "They saw the application of what they were studying” “They were engaged in some other activities, but never with the same intensity” “It was an activity in which teachers, children and even families Families were really involved,” “Now my son is really excited “The research work gave them another vision of what could be about robotics “ done, what they could study .... They had the opportunity to speak to experts ... and that also motivated them a lot” “They learnt that being the first is not the most important thing, and also learnt to lose; it is easy to know how to win but not so easy, to know “They were near to Science. They saw that science can how to lose ... " be something accessible, and that scientists were not aliens ”

CTIC Foundation – Information SocietyParque Científico y Tecnológico de Gijón,Edificio Centros Tecnológicos ·C/ Ada Byron 3933203 Gijón · Asturias · SpainTelephone: + 34 984 29 12 12Fax: + 34 984 39 06 12www.fundacionctic.orgFor further information:Paco PrietoCTIC Foundation – Information SocietyDirectorpaco.prieto@fundacionctic.org@servilleta

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