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