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Re: Starting an FLL team
6th to 8th grade (even 9th grade) are fine for FLL. I believe that FTC is for high school students aged 14-18.
A $1000 budget for FLL should be fine, you may want more if you have a larger number of students in the program. On our teams we usually do not run more than 3 kids per kit and computer combination.
For our FLL teams we start usually in June in order to train the students building with the LEGO Technic system and programming with the NXT-G or RIS 2.0 (for the old RCX controller) software. Most teams do not start this early, we however find this to be more effective because it allows the kids to really become a team and really get a lot more out of the experience.
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