Welcome to Porter FLL Elementary Robotics !
Mrs. Genese Rogers @ [email protected]
CLUB MEETINGS: Wednesdays, 3:45-5:15pm
MEETING PLACE: Porter Cafeteria
2026-27 CLUB SIGN-UPS starting now through May 30th. This is for RISING 4th & 5th graders. Elementary School First Lego League (“FLL”) Robotics Club is looking for 20 students for our 2026-2027 Game. If you are a team player, creative, enjoy building with Legos and/or can code. Fill out our application by May 30th and be a part of something cool next school year.
Use this link to sign up for FLL next year: SIGN-UP FORM
We need ADULT volunteers for each meeting. We would love STUDENT volunteers for more meetings.
You DO NOT need experience volunteering with our FLL Lego Robotics club….you just need a love of inspiring children to think and to work as a TEAM. Of course, if you happen to have some knowledge of block coding or engineering…that is a plus; but NOT mandatory.
VOLUNTEER SHIFTS are 3:30-5:30pm
WEEK OF JANUARY 5, 2026
The students came back with a zeal to build and code. We had five teams on the boards coding, testing, tweaking and repeating. Here's to hoping they stay this energized for the rest of the season's engagements. Please remind your students to CHARGE THEIR IPADS, we had a number of them flickering out during testing. If you haven't made it out to spend some time volunteering with us, PLEASE COME OUT AND SEE OUR WORK AND SPACE! Your student would be happy to have you stop by to help, if not, show off their work.WE NEED STUDENTS' T-SHIRT SIZES....please email Mrs. Goddard at [email protected]
MEETING: 12/3/2025
Our confident coders took their robot prototypes to the boards to start solving missions with block code. The momentum is phenomenal this year and I hope our teams keep up the solid work. Our amazing coaches are sitting with and ensure that students interested in coding get the opportunity to solve at least one mission this season for a coordinated layup in May 2026 Fun Day competitions.
A super THANK YOU to Coach Tara W. for supplying the remaining poster boards this season for the remaining 3 teams. Next club we will hopefully vote on the club T-Shirt designs once those are reviewed and approved by Mrs. Foor.
MEETING 11/19/2025...
We are going into the Thanksgiving Holidays sooooooo strong. Tonight was our last session of the club. We will resume on December 3rd. We were packed into Mrs. Wangner's room today and the change of scene REALLY had our teams super focused.
We saw some team captains and vice captains emerging today. CONGRATULATIONS to them all. Looking forward to seeing them cheer on and encourage their teammates while rolling up their sleeves to teach and get the jobs done.
It was fantastic to see some base robots hit the ground rolling this evening. When I say rolling I mean literally kids were connected and have started coding their respective bots to run on the floor. The next time we meet, we'll definitely be in the cafeteria with teams aiming to code and solve missions on the board. These are not the final and often will have iterations of changes as they test and modify their designs, but so far seeing some great starting builds.
Finally, all of our teams are now sporting their logos before the holidays which we could not have done without the help of some of our middle schoolers and Porter alumni. It takes a village to get this community up and running and we appreciate our volunteers tremendously.
MEETING 10/23/2025...Another successful CLUB KICK-OFF in the books. You might have heard about all the fun your kiddos had with the shoe boxes and Hawaiian roll sandwiches. We had them think about the concept of algorithms to make a jelly or cream cheese sandwich with our helpful human robot, Coach Megan. Some of those sandwiches looked disturbed, BUT they were all enjoyed. We had them explore a build box of parts they can consider when building their team robot with Coach Tara and one of our alumni FLL students Izzy.
MEETING 10/15/2025...And just like that, Mission Madness came to an end this evening. We still have lots to do with our elementary school volunteers and our club members to call this a season. Today, we saw some amazing teamwork as kids jumped in to help other builders that were having a tougher time getting their missions stood up. We also got the opportunity to observe some of the kiddos that came out coding confidently with little guidance on the VEX VR app. Our Club Kick Off starts on October 22nd!!!! It's an exciting and fun time where we introduce kiddos to concepts in coding, engineering, and teamwork.
MEETING 10/1/2025........ It was great to see our returners, newest budding engineers, once elementary volunteers that rose the rank into this year's season, and some of our new elementary school volunteers. The energy was electric. Kids did an icebreaker and were asked to tell us about the most disgusting food they've ever tried. The response "Burgers" and "Tacos" brought the club to an all out war zone. They couldn't take it.
This year's mission is proving to have TONS of tiny parts. Kids are laser focused on getting the club stood up. Our younger ES volunteers focused on adding the velcro to the mission boards at first until they decided to join the engineers on setting up a mission or two. It's an all hands on deck affair and everyone was totally engaged. So far we rang our cowbell about seven (7) times for seven (7) fully completed missions. How many are left to be built you ask? Thirty six (36) with twenty nine (29) to go.
