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The spontaneous robot task is a wonderful idea.  I have coached for 4 years and do not know how to program.  My kids do it all on their own....
As a matter of fact, my team is completely student driven.  As a teacher, it is easy to see where adult intervention comes into play.  My kids did everything on their own and I am proud of them.  
Let's hope FLL does not turn in to programming kids to say the right answer for the judges and continues to be a learning and growing experience.
Thanks for making the suggestion!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sujata Mohapatra 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:26 PM
  Subject: [VADCFLL-L] About VADC Tournaments




  Thanks to the all organizers, judges, volunteers for their hard work to make the tournament successful at Chantilly.




  I am coaching a team since last 2 years, but I I have enough experience from coaching teams in other STEM activities (Odyssey of the mind etc.) to guide a team and observe a team. If I understand correctly the main purpose of FLL is to motivate students to involve in STEM and apply to the real world. Last week our team was competing in division II in Chantilly High school. The team  had a sound score on all 3rd round of robot performance. All our team members are very focused and very interested in science, academically very bright. I am working with them since last 6 years and very proud of them. Some of the team members have 3-4 years of NXT programming experience. When they were practicing I realized  how much hard work, perfection, calculation and time management needed to get a good score in the tournament.  In reality most of the teams struggle with managing time of 150 minutes. Last week in Chantilly,most of the division II ( above 7 grade) could not achieve 200 points in any of the round where 3rd/4th grader rookie team got a consistence score in all 3 rounds above (250- 390). Unbelievable! 


  Sorry to ask this question to the coaches who are programming the robot for their teams, Are you giving chance to the kids to learn or your main priority is to get an award and proceed to the next level? Definitely, FLL Core value does not allow this.


  FLL should give a spontaneous robot task to the teams to program and run the robot during the robot design and programming judging time to test the ability of the team. 


  Thanks.



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