4-H Problem-Solving,

Teamwork and Fun

through LEGO
Mindstorm Robotics
And FIRST LEGO League Teams
 So what is a LEGO
MINDSTORM EV3 Robot?
What can this robot do with your
Programming and Engineering Design?
 What is 4-H FIRST LEGO
League?
 Teams of up to 10 kids and
guided by at least one adult
coach, team members have
about 10 weeks to work on
the Annual Challenge
 Each annual Challenge has
two parts, the Project and
the Robot Game
 The 3 Rs of
FIRST LEGO League
 Robots– learning to program the robots, build add-
ons to accomplish the tasks set forth in the challenge
on the Challenge Field in the 2.5 minute opportunity
to showcase their robot and programming
 Research- Learning about the challenge and how
our community can make a difference and presenting
it in a creative way
 Report– Defend the robot, your programming, your
teamwork and your research project
 FIRST LEGO League Core
Values
 We are a team
 We do the work to find solutions with guidance from
our coaches and mentors
 We honor the spirit of friendly competition
 What we discover is more important than what we win
 We share our experiences with others
 We display gracious professionalism in everything we
do
 We have fun
 FIRST LEGO League 4-H
Clubs
 Decision-making
 Communication
 Leadership
 AndCitizenship—Connecting research to
community
 Open House Presentations
 County Fair Club Project and Demonstrations
 Regional Competition
 Technical Interview
 Run Missions completed
 for 5 minutes
 Explain how you
designed your
Apparatuses
 Share how your design
 Process progressed
 Regional Competition
 Teamwork Interview


Accomplish Task
Share how you worked
as a team

What did you learn

working together?

What role did each

player take?
How did you get along?
 Regional Competition
 Project Research Presentation


•Research a community
connection to the year’s
theme
•Brainstorm a way your
community could impact that
theme
•Plan a project to impact that
theme
•Plan a creative way to share
•Share it with the community
•5 Minutes including Setup
 Regional Competition
 Robotics Challenge


•2 ½ minutes to complete as
many missions as possible
•Only 2 members at the board
at one time…can tag and
change
•Use only one robot
•Must practice changing
apparatuses so that doesn’t
slow you up
•Don’t shy away from
Regional if you only have a
few missions completed
 2014 Challenge
Engineering and How we
Learn What is the future of

learning? FIRST® LEGO® League
teams will find the answers.  In the
2014 FLL WORLD CLASS℠
Challenge, over 230,000 children
ages 9 to 16* from over 70 countries
will redesign how we gather
knowledge and skills in the
21st century. Teams will teach adults
about the ways that kids need and
FLL challenges kids to want to learn.  Get ready for a whole
new class – FLL WORLD CLASSSM!
think like scientists and
engineers. 
 How do teams get Started?

1. Starting to build the LEGO pieces that make up

each of the missisons
– You will download the instructions for building the
Mission Model Pieces
– Check out the Mission pieces, pictures and video of the
how the constructed LEGO piece fits into the World
Class Challenge on Youtube when the challenge is
released on August 26 …see what your Robot has to do
to accomplish each mission
– Lay out the mat and start building the pieces that go on
it
 How do we get started?
2. Jump into the Challenge Theme “World Class” for
2014. Find out and imagine how young people and
really all people will learn best in the future the
things they need to know for jobs, hobbies and living
in our communities. Contact some experts that can
help you learn about the theme and apply
technology to a possible innovative solution that
would improve your lives or the lives of others in
your community. Get a good foundation of ideas and
knowledge to build on for your project and project
presentation.
 How do we get started?

3. Start learning about building the robot and

programming it
a) Build a robot…there are lots of sites online to help you
design the building of your robot. Just get one built so
you can start programming. Just Google LEGO EV3
Building Instructions
a) Build the standard Driving Base in Manual with kit
b) Begin the EV3 Tutorial in the programming software or
online to learn how to use the software to program the
robot