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Welcome to Porter FLL Elementary Robotics 2024-25!  

CLUB CONTACT:          Mrs. Avalon Goddard  @    [email protected] 

CLUB MEETINGS:        Wednesdays, 3:45-5:15pm

MEETING PLACE:        Porter Cafeteria

 

PARENT/GUARDIAN VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

DO NOT BE AFRAID!!! We simply need you to bring your 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          

 SIGN-UP FOR FLL ELEM ROBOTICS VOLUNTEER

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

 We already have 6 Elementary School First Lego League (FLL) Porter Robotics teams this school year aiming for our County's FLL FUN DAY competition in May 2025. Returning and New 4th and 5th grade students applied and were selected in June 2024. 

New applications for the club will reopen in June 2025.

 

Posted 12/17/2024

Our captain and Vice Captains for Lego Surfers were finally voted in last week.  Congrats engineers!!

 

Posted 12/5/2024

CAPTAIN and VICE CAPTAIN SELECTION - Team members voted in their team captain today with second place to a vice captain.  Rounds of applause to the teams that welcomed their leaders. We have one more team coming and that announcement will be made hopefully next week.

 

Posted 11/21/2024   

Another eventful day today in FLL and what a way to end before our Thanksgiving Holidays next week.  The next official resume date for FLL Robotics will be December 4th, as school will be closed on November 27th.  We unveiled our final two teams and logos during our club session tonight.  Rounds of applause for teams Reef Breakers (Formerly Team C) and Aqua Knights (Formerly Team D).   

 We have 6 team prototype robots built as of this evening.  We are so proud and happy with this year's pace.  Lots more to do before we can call these anywhere near final. 

 

 

Posted 11/17/24 

The kids were soooo focused this week.  We welcomed back a number of students that were either out sick or on vacation and they all just fell right in under the guided hands of teammates and coaches.  
Some of the teams are at the stage where they are starting to build based on their sketches and brainstorming of ideas for their prototype.  YOU KNOW the season will be good when you see a team's design incorporated crab eyes.  Can't wait to see where that goes.

Posted 11/7/24

A pretty eventful club meeting on 11/6/24.   We have a number of teams pulling together and understanding the assignment.  Four of six teams have secured both their team names and logos today.  Porter FLL Robotics announcements are going to be really exciting this year.

Today we saw lots of team collaboration and hoping to keep the momentum going throughout the season.  All of the teams have indicated at least 5 missions that they'd like to attempt to solve (one per person) and lots have been seen making their way to the boards to explore them up close.  Parents, please encourage your student to look at the mission that they've selected on the YouTube FLL Submerged video or Canvas resource this weekend.  Have them focus on that one mission they selected to solve for this year.   Make sure that they pay attention to how they can score points.  We had a couple of teams sketching some robot designs today.  The rule is we don't build if we haven't sketched and brainstormed the concept with the team. 

 

Posted 10/24/24

Your students had an eventful club time this week with our Club Kick Off learning about a number of topics at our Centers. What a fantastic evening!  Thank you all for of your donations that went into this event.  The engineers learned about jobs that they'll be applying for within the teams, gracious professionalism, exploring the mission board, and seeing a robot that was built last year.  I think the best part was the bagel and cream cheese coding center.  Coach Megan outdid herself being the club's android.  With the right instructions she either made a delicious treat OR a mess (HA!).  Thank you Coach Megan!!!   
We were short on volunteer help today, but I was excited to see some of our returning 5th graders stepping into action to run the Gracious Professionalism table.  At one point I saw a skit of what poor Gracious Professionalism looks like and even heard some lectures on that table.  Our elementary school volunteers jumped in to complete one of our misson tables on time for Coaches.

Posted 10/17/24

As coaches, we love your students' excitement and enthusiasm.  After our last week of technical issues, the kids were on a roll this week as they individually found their groove building the club missions earning 1 hour and 15 minutes each of volunteer time.  We were on a roll and hoping to continue another week of getting our missions stood up and ready for our Club Kick Off.  If you hear your engineer speaking about the ringing of the cowbell on the drive home as missions are completed, they're telling the truth.  We celebrate it all in Robotics.  We had some students that focused in and plowed through their missions.  Hoping that they can in turn buddy up and help others move their projects along next week.