This past Friday, the Mukwonago BEARs robotics team held our second annual FIRST LEGO League Kickoff at Mukwonago High School. Besides revealing the challenge, the robotics team members created seminars covering all aspects of the FLL challenge (project, building, programming, teamwork). Parent and coaching sessions were held as well to get everyone ready for the [...]
Despite the number of days left until the robot ships and the status of Mare Crisium, things remain fairly calm in Team 930′s shop. Additional and longer work sessions may have thwarted some of the apprehension or perhaps it’s just the makeup of the team. As roadblocks have dropped in our path, the team has [...]
LEGO League is an exciting experience for intelligent young childeren of 5th to 8th grade. When I was mentoring the Section LEGO Storms who met twice a week, I learned a lot from them. Unfortunately, I cannot tell all of it in such a short amount of time, so I will just give a few highlights. This years competition was a climate connect. Building a LEGO NXT to compete with, the team was given [...]
In September, I began mentoring the Eagleville Eaglebots FIRST Lego League team. Having never been in Lego League myself, I was a little nervous about mentoring a team. However, with help from another Team 930 mentor who had been involved in FLL and the coaches, I became familiar with the program and began to feel [...]
No, this post is not making fun of students at Mukwonago’s Middle School, Park View. Names can be deceiving. Actually, the Park View Blockheads, FLL team 29, was the name of the LEGO league team I mentored this past fall. Now I cannot explain my entire adventure in just one blog post, but I can summarize a [...]
My experience with mentoring the Prairie View Elementary School Lego League Team, the Flying Fadoodles, was extremely rewarding. When I came to the first meeting, I knew only a few of the kids, but as the season continued not only did I become their mentor, but one of their friends. We would laugh at the [...]
