4. Outline
ā¢ What is a team?
ā¢ What does a team look like?
ā¢ Requirements of an FLL team.
ā¢ Requirements of a WRO team.
ā¢ How to start a team?
ā¢ How to build a team?
ā¢ Reality check
5. What is a team?
ā¢ A collection of learners.
ā¢ Working and learning together.
ā¢ From a school, community, family ā¦
ā¢ Diverse talents, skills and passions.
ā¢ Different ages, genders, race,
background.
6. What does a team look like?
ā¢ No fixed recipe!
ā¢ Age, gender, size, IQ ā¦. Shoe size!
ā¢ Sense of humour ...
15. And the team needs
ā¢ A coach (hands on teaching,
technical)
16. Hints for the coach
ā¢ You do not need to be an engineer to be a
coach.
ā¢ Your team must define team rules.
ā¢ Tell parents ā especially that kids do the
work!
ā¢ Keep asking questions ā what of, why,
how?
17. More hints for the coach
ā¢ Do not do it alone!
ā¢ Figure out funding.
ā¢ Committed to meeting schedule.
ā¢ Parents need roles too!
ā¢ Good time management.
ā¢ Keep it FUN Fun Fun.
18. And the team needs
ā¢ Mentor(s) (motivator, guidance).
ā¢ Any person that works with the team
in an area of expertise.
ā¢ Engineer, student, graphic artist,
programmer, marketing expert, drama
teacher, carpenter ā¦.
19. And the team needs
ā¢ Managers.
ā¢ Administration - registration,
attendance
ā¢ Photography, sponsorship, media,
transport, catering ā¦.
ā¢ Website ā design and read ā¦
20. And the team needs
ā¢ PARENTS that support
ā¢ Especially in weeks around
competition!!!
ā¢ Treats appreciated!
22. Other team issues ...
ā¢ Team name.
ā¢ Team logo.
ā¢ Team roles and responsibilities -
research, build, program, present,
strategy, time keeper, marketing,
documents ... .
23. Requirements of a FLL team
ā¢ Must work together from begin September to
end October (at least).
ā¢ Max 10 learners. Aged 10 -16 years.
ā¢ Must program and build robot to complete FLL
challenge missions.
ā¢ Must research challenge, identify a problem,
suggest solution and present research.
ā¢ Will be judged on TEAM WORK!
24. FLL - Gracious professionalism
ā¢ We are a team.
ā¢ We do the work to find solutions with
guidance from our coaches and mentors.
ā¢ We honour the spirit of friendly
competition
ā¢ What we discover is more important than
what we win.
25. FLL - Gracious professionalism
ā¢ We share our experiences with
others.
ā¢ We display Gracious
ProfessionalismTM in everything we
do.
ā¢ We have fun.
26. Requirements of a WRO team
ā¢ 2 or 3 learners working together.
ā¢ Challenge according to age group (elementary,
juniour high school, seniour high school, and
open
ā¢ Many long hours and patience needed to
practise, test and try designs for challenge.
ā¢ On competition day, work together to build robot
in 2 hours!
27. How to start a team?
ā¢ Start with a group (6 to 10) of learners.
ā¢ Divide session into team building, robot
building, programming and āfreeā time.
ā¢ Encourage participation in all activities!
ā¢ Assign different roles and combinations.
30. How to build a team?
ā¢ Read the manual.
ā¢ Link to manual ....
31. Quotes from the manual
ā¢ It requires no special expertise, just patience,
dedication and a willingness to learn
ALONGSIDE the team.
ā¢ You are never in this by yourself or for yourself.
32. How to build a team?
ā¢ Good to start with team building activity.
ā¢ Talk about team work.
ā¢ Talk ānicelyā to each other ā it takes
practice.
ā¢ Take lots and lots of photos of the teams
and the robots
35. Reality?
ā¢ The learners grow up and mature ā¦.
ā¢ Life happens ā and other things interfere!
ā¢ Teamwork does not happen naturally.
ā¢ Every one has a ābad hair dayā.
ā¢ Not everyone on the team wants to build
or program. The team needs researchers,
speakers and artists too.
36. More reality ā¦
ā¢ Itās the learners who are learning ā¦
let them do and try and think!
ā¢ Allow learners make mistakes ā again
and again!
ā¢ Guide do not dictate!
ā¢ There needs to be fun, laughter, and
learning!
39. Good news
ā¢ Robotics in Africa
ā¢ Posted by Vu Nguyen on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 | 1 Comment
ā¢ We came across an article about a great initiative thatās happening
in Africa. A program called AFRON, or the African Robotics Network
, is āaiming to mobilize a community of institutions and individuals
working on robotics-related areas, strengthening communication
and collaboration among them.ā
ā¢ You can read more about AFRON by clicking on the following link:
ā¢ http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/african-rob
ā¢ ā¦read more.
ā¢