Middle School Mindstorms Class Help

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Hello all,
So I really haven;t been using these forums all too much but I really want to start so here is #1 of a couple threads that I wanted to start.

Our team is in its second year, but our school's principle loves us so much (*sarcasm*) she decided to create a robotics class for our high school's attached middle school. My coach and I are responsible for teaching 7th graders how to program and build functional Mindstorms robots. So far its been interesting... especially since we don't actually have any kits (the money is held up in the district so we just decided to buy the kits with our team's own money) and I've been trying to teach the kids programming with index cards.

I was wondering if anyone had good suggestions for the class especially in regards to projects, things to teach (because I am running out of ideas, I just taught them the last part of programming), and activities to help them build team work skills?

Thanks for all the help!