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3 New First Lego League 4-H Clubs are forming!

Where:  in West Harrison School, Logan and Woodbine

Who can belong:  youth 9-14 years old are eligible and all applicants will be considered for the 10 member teams that will be selected in each community.
What will they do?: They will learn teamwork and then work on programming a Lego Mindstorm Robot to complete specific tasks on an 8 foot by 8 foot challenge field. These teams will participate as an Iowa First Lego League Team in competitions on the Iowa State University campus in Ames.
Teams will meet once or twice weekly to prepare their team and learn to program their robot for completing the challenges that their robot must complete in the 20 minute rounds of competition.
What will youth participants get out of it?:
  • Full membership as a Harrison County 4-H'er making them eligible for lots of great activities throughout the year.
  • Lots of great skills for working as a member of a technology team.
  • Programming skills in  using the Lego Mindstorm software to set up your robot to complete the tasks needed in the challenge.
  • Lots of fun just messing around with the Mindstorm Robots and the challenge equipment.

If you are interested in applying, download an application and reccomendation forms for a teacher and parent/guardian to fill out and turn in to your school office by September 2, 2008.

Harrison County First Lego League Team 4-H Member Application Process

  1. Fill out an Application

  2. Have a teacher fill out the Science/Math Recommendation Form

  3. Have a Parent fill out the Parent Recommendation form

  4. Turn in to your School Office.

First Lego League Team 4-H Member Application Form (MSWord)  (PDF)

Teacher Recommendation Form for Science/Math Teamwork Recommendation (MSWord)    (PDF)

Parent Recommendation Form (MSWord)  (PDF)NEW!  To prepare you for working with the NXT Lego Mindstorm Robots, visit this great site for:  

 NXT Lego Mindstorm Cool Tutorial

Visiting this site will teach you all about the Lego Mindstorm Robot, motors, sensors and programming. It is really imporant information that will have you ready to work with the robots as soon as you are selected to be on the team.

Team Resources Page

Coaches Resources Page

NEW!  Lots of great videos of First Lego League robots and team Challenges...

Start here.... and watch or search on YouTube for First Lego League videos
NEW!!!Great video showing last years challenge and a team programming their robot.

 

Check out these resources to learn more about the First Lego League Competitions and Challenges:


DOS 9/9/2008