4-H First Lego League 4-H Clubs are forming for the 2009 Season!
Where: in West Harrison School, Logan and Woodbine and New this year will be Clubs in Missouri Valley and Dunlap!
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 MINSTORM NXT Robot to complete specific tasks on an 8 foot by 8 foot challenge field. They will also identify a community project and plan a presentation that they will share with Community Leaders. These teams will participate as an Iowa First Lego League Team in the Western Iowa Regional Competition in December.
Teams will meet once or twice weekly to prepare their team project and presentation and learn to program their robot for completing the challenges that their robot must complete in the 2 1/2 minute rounds of competition .
NEW! To prepare you for working with the NXT Lego Mindstorm Robots, visit this great site for:
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.
NEW! Lots of great videos of First Lego League robots and team Challenges...
Check out these resources to learn more about the First Lego League Competitions and Challenges:
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8/28/2009