Team building sctivities

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Originally Posted by klapin

i was wondering what kind of short activities would be good for the beginning of team meetings for kids to learn how to work together as a team

I don't know why, but I feel like team building exercises for the sake of team building don't make sense. Furthermore, as some of what of an introvert, if I get thrown into a 'team building' exercise, I tend to turn inwards even more.

With that in mind, we build robots. If you're a new student on our team, you'll be putting together a VEX robot in the fall. The primary purpose of this is to get students acclimated to robots and robotics competitions. However, a side effect is that the students get close to the new members in their respective groups, their respective leaders, and the mentors.

Of course, VEX is a resource heavy endeavor. Do any other challenge (trebuchet, downhill kart, mousetrap cars, etc.) with the purpose of driving home engineering and competition. I possitive you'll find students naturally pull closer in order to innovate and compete.

- Sunny G.

[Pauline Tasci]

Honestly if ur team does FLL, take a couple mindstorms kits for a day set up some lil teams with students, make them build/program/compete the FLL challenge. Teaches them about teamwork and FIRST all at the same time!