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FIRST LEGO LEAGUE CHALLENGE

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Updated: August 2023

Engineering Notebook Worksheets

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Image Credit: FIRST LEGO League Challenge

As you complete the Mission Strategy charts on the next few pages, you will need to know where each mission is and how you score points for completing the mission. The diagram below shows you the location of each mission so that you can consider if and how they may be grouped together.

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Mission Evaluation

Read the rules and then fill in the information in the chart.
Use the information to create a Strategy for your team (Page 6)
Activation Method: How is the mission activated? Push/Pull/Lift/Lower/Deliver?
Other factors: Are missions in the same location? Require no attachment?

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Mission	Location on field (near Launch?)	Navigation Easy/Hard	Mission Activation Method (push/pull/lift)	Other Factors to Consider and Questions	Points
	Near Red Launch	Medium	Push, slightly higher	Have to go off the mat (check rules if allowed). Do we have to activate with the orange lever?	20

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Mission Evaluation

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Mission	Location on field (near Launch?)	Navigation Easy/Hard	Mission Activation Method (push/pull/lift)	Other Factors to Consider and Questions	Points

Read the rules and then fill in the information in the chart.
Use the information to create a Strategy for your team (Page 6)
Activation Method: How is the mission activated? Push/Pull/Lift/Lower/Deliver?
Other factors: Are missions in the same location? Require no attachment?

Instructions:

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Mission Evaluation

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Mission	Location on field (near Launch?)	Navigation Easy/Hard	Mission Activation Method (push/pull/lift)	Other Factors to Consider and Questions	Points

Read the rules and then fill in the information in the chart.
Use the information to create a Strategy for your team (Page 6)
Activation Method: How is the mission activated? Push/Pull/Lift/Lower/Deliver?
Other factors: Are missions in the same location? Require no attachment?

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Strategy Planning

Trace the path that the robot will take each time it leaves launch (use a new color for each path)
Compare your strategy with others on your team and reach a consensus

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Image Credit: FIRST LEGO League Challenge

Think about where you will align or line follow (or find a line)

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Strategy Planning

Trace the path that the robot will take each time it leaves launch (use a new color for each path)
Compare your strategy with others on your team and reach a consensus

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Instructions:

Image Credit: FIRST LEGO League Challenge

Think about where you will align or line follow (or find a line)

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Strategy Planning

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For each path you identified on the previous page, fill in one of these pages

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Path Name/Color:

Missions Accomplished:

Points Earned:

Important note about the path and how it can be made reliable: (where will you align, which sensors will you use, etc.

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Robot Design

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Review the rules for the robot game. Are these any rules that will restrict your design? Is there a size limit?
Think about all the missions your team decided to do. Will it need to go over something or reach high up?
Think about the paths your team decided to go on. Will it need to line follow? Where will it align?
Discuss with the rest of your team and then build a base robot to match the features you want and need.

What features should the robot have?

What sensors do we need?

What are some mechanisms that can solve the mission?

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Robot Testing

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If you design more than one robot, use this chart to compare them. At the top of each column, describe your robot
Come up with some basic tests to compare the robot designs. Can this robot move straight accurately? Can it turn consistently? Can it line follow? Can it detect a line? Did the robot move as intended?
Discuss which robot performed the best to help you pick the best design for your team.

	Robot 1: Wheels: Size: Sensors: Motors:	Robot 2: Wheels: Size: Sensors: Motors:	Robot 3: Wheels: Size: Sensors: Motors:
Move Straight 50cm




Overall: Speed Balance

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Pseudocode

Time to plan. For each path your team picked to go on, write out the pseudocode for the robot. Once the robot launches, how will it travel to the mission model and activate it? E.g. Move forward 30cm, turn 90 degrees left, etc
Write down each step the robot would take in plain English. Later, programmers can convert this into code
Add as many rows as needed

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Setup	Location of robot in launch:
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Pseudocode

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Step	Instruction

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Reliability

Run each mission 10 times and see how reliable it was
Work on your solution until it becomes more reliable
Test each run/launch to make sure that missions work when combined as well

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	Test 1	Test 2	Test 3	Test 4	Test 5	Test 6	Test 7	Test 8	Test 9	Test 10	Total
Ex. M00	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	4/10














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Attachment Evolution

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Date:

Mission Name:

Describe Attachment Features

What changes were made and why?

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Attachment Testing

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Date:

Mission Name:

Attachment Tested

	Test 1	Test 2	Test 3
What worked well?
What did not work?
Next steps: What will you change or modify?

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Robot Presentation

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Write a script for your robot design presentation
Remember to discuss all aspects of the rubric
Remember to show your robot, explain your code and refer to documentation to demonstrate your iterative design process

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Preparing for Judging

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Make sure you communicate all aspects of the rubric. Be as specific as possible, give examples and show evidence.

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Sample Questions

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How did your team divide the work?

Did everyone learn to build and program?

How did you test your robot? Did you make any changes to it?

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Judging Preparation

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Look at the rubrics. Think about how you will address each area.

IDENTIFY: Explain what your team’s strategy is an how you came up with your team’s strategy?

DESIGN: What are the key features of your robot and code? What makes it innovative and reliable?

ITERATE: How did you come up with that design? How did you test and modify your code and robot?