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For future consideration.

The past two years I made every team member buy an NXT. This program is about them learning and that is one of the tools.

When we start the season, we conduct trials where everyone has to build a variant and we test-run them to compare designs.

Without fail we gravitate to one design and someone's controller becomes the competition bot.

The challenge is keeping everyone's pieces separate; a task of sorting at the end of the season for the parent's to enjoy over some snacks and a movie with the team...as they protect their investment.

Kent
Coach

From: B Bergenstock [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 04:24 PM
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VADCFLL-L] After FLL , who "keeps the robot"

There are a bunch of pieces, usually regular blocks that you won't really need again. I think the kids find it exciting to get some of them, and it won't hurt your future teams to let them have those pieces. I would definitely save any bars, gears or technic pieces for future teams.   This year's spinner and strength machine are gold mines for those pieces!
  I guess it really depends on if you will be coaching again. If you are, it is a team robot- not yours, but an FLL bot used by any team members of the future.    If you're not, then it's not as easy a decision, but you said you were, so that's that with the machine.
Good luck fielding any questions from parents who believe they purchased a NXT machine ;)
Brandy


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