Nature’s Fury 2013

Nature’s Fury – FIRST LEGO League Challenge 2013

Nature’s Fury – Challenge and Resources

Team, group work, project management, collaboration, multi-tasking

• calendar – dates, events, checkpoints
• checklists – meetings, checkpoints, event prep – record, share

Job jar – stuff you can do if you don’t have anything to do…

• plan robot runs – tasks, points – strategy * document, testing plan
• research for project
• “tools” – project organization, preparation for tournaments, checklists, tracking
• check forums – rule changes/clarification, cool robot tricks
• project presentation, repository – Prezi, Edmodo, WP, wikispaces, Google docs
• engineering design process * ask * imagine * plan, create * improve
• Core Values * list, review * practice sample team activities
• Gracious professionalism * photos, post-its,
• Document, record, track – photos, notes * repository – access, procedures – web-based – Edmodo, Dropbox, SharePoint ? flash drive * management, version control * program code
• Robot * ? map to program versions * base * tools for tasks ? standardized interface * battery access * 2 “identical” robots – manage revisions
• EV3 – programming, Bluetooth, software downloads, tutorials * source control, management * testing * archiving

Competition prep

• practice, practice
• no “all niters”
• no / minimal changes n days before competition – reason, notes, explanation, justification
• battery / power management
• additional people, jobs, supplies – families
• transportation – kids, tables, robots

Learn more…

• http://floridadisaster.com/
• EV3 Programming Environment – First Lego League – Nature’s Fury – FLL – YouTube
• LEGO.com Mindstorms Funzone – Movies – About EV3 –
• LEGO.com Mindstorms Downloads – Updates – Software
• Learning to use My Blocks
• Robot Square – Tutorial: RobotC Bluetooth Examples
• EV3 Tutorial
• EV3 Information
• Mindboards • Index page
• EV3 | Robot Navigation
• The NXT STEP is EV3 – LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Blog
• LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Robot Commander for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store
• Mindstorms EV3 Tips And Tricks From The Creator Of Lego Wall-E | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
• STEMRobotics | STEM Education with a Robotics Implementation
• TechStart – Home

Project Plan – details

• plan for execution of the project including defining all necessary tasks and their products.
• Scope of Project
• Organization – summarizes roles and responsibilities
• task of the project in terms of its inputs, approach, and outputs.
• external schedule constraints, a schedule for each task, sub-task, or output of a task.
• tangible deliverables of task. Eg. Binders, Competition Robots, Prototypes, etc.

Referenced Documents

• FLL Participation Rules: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/participationrules
• Nature’s Fury Challenge: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/sites/default/files/Challenge/NaturesFury/NATURE%27S%20FURY%20Challenge.pdf
• Core Values: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/mission/corevalues