Project Ideas

[Mike Neely]

I was wondering what ideas you guys had for your project dealing with the ocean.

[Andrew Blair]

......wow. i feel dumb. What project? Is it like the first safety presentation/animation last year?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

......wow. i feel dumb. What project? Is it like the first safety presentation/animation last year?

If you aren't in FLL, you won't know what the project is. (and maybe if you are, you still won't ) The FLL teams do a research project about something related to the game. In this case, the ocean. I assume you are not in FLL, therefore, you don't need to worry. (I don't either, as I am only a mentor, not a team member who has to do the research.)

[Andrew Blair]

ahh, sorry. Occasionally first gives us a pre-build season animation project. I have heard something from our lego team about a project idea talking about rov's and recent (and not so recent) deep sea discoveries made using them. My brothers in FLL, and I overheard it, so perhaps its relavent, perhaps not.

[Sakura141]

We haven't started FLL yet in Holland (yeah... I know, bad us. We did tryouts last thursday though.. they start meeting tomorrow)

Ideas that have made for good ways to present the research can be...

-Skit (my old 8th grade FLL when I was on it did a news program, it worked well for the city sights challenge.)
-Video (record the skit, story, and/or song and present it.)
-Stories (create a story with the research.)
-Songs (if you have anyone willing)

those are some good ways that you can present your info and let them have fun with it.

The judges like it when the WHOLE team presents as well. Always make sure to have your team try to have everyone involved.

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This is going to be my 3rd year of mentoring a FLL team (I'm a Highschool Junior), and in my first year, I learned the hard way that research does need motivation. The kids are more likely to be all "Let's do programming or building!" then they are to say, "Let's do research!"