Avani –
Scoring for mission completion is based on
the state of the table at the end of the match. If you bring a loose
model (e.g., the Ice Buoy) back to base before delivering it to the research
area, that is totally acceptable.
As long as you don’t break any rules
you are allowed to be as creative as you wish. Last year, at least one
team “delivered the truck to the farm” by hanging it on the hydroelectric
dam. The mission said that the truck had to go TO the farm (not that it
had to touch it) so even though having a truck suspended in mid-air off a dam
doesn’t make any real-world sense, the fact that the back end of the
truck was over the farm fulfilled the letter of the mission. The fact
that there was an oil barrel in the back of the truck that was over the farm
fulfilled part of a different mission that required that a barrel be delivered
TO the farm but specifically NOT touching it.
That same year, one of the missions was to
deliver a “wave-turbine” to the ocean in the northwest corner. The
wave turbine was to be designed and built by the team and it had to have moving
parts. One enterprising team simply parked the robot in the ocean at the
end of the match. The robot was built by the kids and had moving parts so
it was a “wave turbine” as far as scoring was concerned.
Encourage your kids to “think
outside the box” and they just might surprise themselves!
Note: The rules say that you are not
allowed to “break dual-lock” so you can’t have the robot
bring the house back to base so you can fiddle with it there and then return it
to its original spot.
Stuart
From: First Lego
League Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Avani Saini
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008
1:47 PM
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Subject: [VADCFLL-L] breaking the
task
I was wonderting if we are allowed to break tasks. eg collect some
items and bring them to base. As part of next task, drop them to the
destination. Just trying to make some tasks simple this way and have different
attachments for collecting and dropping.
Avani
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