Lego 1-Day event ideas

[Andrew Schuetze]

Howdy to all,

Just had a rumination and thought that I would post it here to get some advice and share it with others as well.

My campus has about a dozen complete sets of the Lego Team Challenge Sets. RCX two motors, two light sensors, two touch sensors ....

I don't use them until the Spring semester for classes.

The idea was to host a single day lego tournament as part of a regular academic meet. We have two math teachers who are perennial academic team coaches and host one to two practice meets during the year as fundraisers for the academic team.

My idea was to add to the option of tests and competitions a Lego challenge. Schools could enter multiple teams of up to four students to design and program robots for some challenge.

If most schools in San Antonio are not FIRST teams and likely don't have Lego robots part of their curriculum, what kind of support would I need to provide for the schools in advance of the competition? Should I offer two divisions, one for NQC based programming and the other Lego Inventor? If this is part of a regular academic meet, I will have to limit the challenge to a 2 to 3 hour window for building and programming after conflicting exams such as math, science, and Comp. Sci. are given. The awards could be done immediately after a live competition during the regular awards ceremony....


Any and all ideas are welcome, PLEASE...Especially from teams who have done this in the past. Suggestions for specific web resources would be great


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