Los Altos Robotics Orientation, Training, and Competition Materials Archive

This is where Los Altos Robotics Orientation, Training, and Competition materials are archived.

 

2014 Archive

Announcements

  • November 17, 2014/Biswa
    The tournament was a success, thanks to the teams, coaches, parents and volunteers that made it happen.  Results, awards and photo link are available on the FLL Competitions pageIf you participated in the event, and want to give back to the FLL community, please consider joining the Los Altos Robotics board so that we can continue to put on a quality event.  It will not be possible without volunteers like you.  For further information, attend the next board meeting on Tuesday, December 2 at 7:30pm.  We will be meeting in Room 522 of Mountain View High School, 3535 Truman Ave., Mountain View. Here is a campus map.
  • November 14, 2014/Biswa
    The Los Altos FLL Tournament is in less than two days!  Sunday November 16, 8:30am to 5:30pm at Blach Intermediate School, located at 1120 Covington Rd, Los Altos, CA 94024. Teams registered through NorCalFLL will participate in this official FLL qualifier tournament.  All visitors are welcome.
  • October 29, 2014/Biswa 
    The Share-a-Thon is coming up on Sunday, November 9 at 1:30 to 4:30 at Oak School, 1501 Oak Avenue, Los Altos, CA 94024 in the Multi-Purpose room.  Share your team project with other teams for practice and feedback in a friendly, supportive atmosphere.  Sign up now - see this announcement for details.
  • October 29, 2014/Biswa 
    The next Los Altos Robotics board meeting is on Tuesday, December 2 at 7:30pm.  We will be meeting in Room 522 of Mountain View High School, 3535 Truman Ave., Mountain View. Here is a campus map
  • October 19, 2014/Biswa 
    The Los Altos Scrimmage is at Blach School 10/19 from noon to 5:00 PM. Blach Intermediate School is located at 1120 Covington Rd, Los Altos, CA 94024. All visitors are welcome.
  • October 19, 2014/Biswa 
    The next Los Altos Robotics board meeting is on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:30pm.  We will be meeting in Room 522 of Mountain View High school, 3535 Truman Ave., Mountain View. Here is acampus map.
  • September 28, 2014/Biswa 
    The scrimmage registration is now closed.  Any additional registrations will be put on a waiting list.  If you have already registered, you should have already been contacted by our registrar, Linda Ren, as to your team status.
  • September 16, 2014/Biswa

Applications for the scrimmage are now being accepted.  To apply for a slot, please fill out the 2014 Scrimmage Registration Form.  It has additional information about participating in the scrimmage including volunteer requirements.

  • September 13, 2014/Biswa

The scrimmage will be held on the afternoon of October 19 where teams can practice with their robots under tournament conditions.  Registration for the scrimmage will be announced on the Tigerbots mailing list. Participating teams will be expected to provide volunteers.

The new parent orientation slides are available here in pdf format.

  • August 31, 2014/Biswa

Attend the September 2 - Los Altos Robotics parent orientation meeting from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm at Mountain View High School (3535 Truman Avenue, Mountain View) in room 522! Link to campus mapEvent Flyer link.

  • August 18, 2014/Biswa

The Los Altos Robotics board will be having an organizational meeting on Tuesday, August 26 at 7:30pm.

The agenda is to decide if we have the board member volunteer resources this year to run a qualifier tournament.

If you want to do something to give back to the community and help provide a great social and technology program for boys and girls ages 9 to 14,  please join the Los Altos Robotics board.  Los Altos Robotics organizes FIRST LEGO League  events and other robotics activities.  We are fortunate to have had many dedicated volunteers over the years who have established one of the longest-standing FLL 
tournaments in California.  

As we do every year, the Los Altos Robotics board will have some turnover this year in members.  We still have experienced members to lead the program but we are always looking for additional leadership and help to run our events.  Please join us on Tuesday to see how you can help.   There are a variety of large and small roles.

We will be meeting in Room 522 of Mountain View High school, 3535 Truman Ave., Mountain View. Here is a campus map.

  • May 18, 2014/Biswa
    The next meeting of the Los Altos Robotics Board is scheduled for 7:30pm on Wednesday, May 21 to start the planning of the new FLL season and to take some steps to set up the  non-profit corporation we discussed last December.  We will be meeting in a different room at MVHS and here is Michael's guidance on finding the room:
    We are meeting in Mountain View High School in Room 420.  Here is a campus map and the Spartan Robotics website has a map to the school and directions on how to find the robotics lab in room 322.  Room 420 is close to the robotics lab.

 

2013 Archive

 

Announcements

  • December 1, 2013/Biswa
    The next meeting of the Los Altos Robotics Board is scheduled for 7:30pm on Tuesday, December 3 in Room 522 of Mountain View High school.  Room 522 is a bit hard to find in that you have to walk from the back parking lot (at Bryant and Bower) past the pool and the tennis courts into a small courtyard between a couple of buildings. See this Google Map with green markers in the student parking lot (A) and close to the front door of room 521 (B).
  • November 20, 2013/Biswa
    The tournament was a success, thanks to the teams, coaches, parents and volunteers that made it happen.  Results, awards and photo link are available on the FLL Competitions page.
  • November 4, 2013/Biswa
    The Los Altos FLL Tournament is just a few weeks away!  Sunday November 17, 8:30am to 5:30pm at Blach Intermediate School.  Teams registered through NorCalFLL will participate in this official FLL qualifier tournament.  Details will be posted here and to the TigerBots mailing list soon.  All visitors are welcome.
  • November 4, 2013/Biswa
    Project Share-a-Thon will be held on Sunday November 10 at Oak School, 1501 Oak Avenue, Los Altos, CA 94024 from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the multipurpose room.  Registered teams will practice their project presentations. All visitors are welcome.
  • October 24, 2013/Biswa
    The 2013 Scrimmage was a great success!  Thanks to all of our coordinators and volunteers who made it happen.  We had 28 teams participate with 40 competition runs.  Team scores are available here, and detailed mission scoring for each run can be found here.  Pictures can be found here.
  • October 21, 2013/Biswa
    The next meeting of the Los Altos Robotics Board is scheduled for 7:30pm on Tuesday, October 22 in Room 522 or 521 of Mountain View High school.  Room 521/522 is a bit hard to find in that you have to walk from the back parking lot (at Bryant and Bower) past the pool and the tennis courts into a small courtyard between a couple of buildings. See this Google Map with green markers in the student parking lot (A) and close to the front door of room 521 (B).
  • October 5, 2013/Biswa
    The October 20 scrimmage is oversubscribed.  Any additional registrations will be put on a waiting list.  If enough teams express interest, and we have enough teams and team volunteers, we will consider putting on a second scrimmage at a subsequent weekend.  You are encouraged to register on the waiting list if you are interested in participating in a second scrimmage.
  • September 28, 2013/Biswa
    Los Altos Robotics is now accepting applications for our FLL Scrimmage on Sunday October 20. The scrimmage will run from 12:00 - 5 p.m. at Blach School, 1120 Covington Road, Los Altos. 24 teams can be accommodated. Registrations will be accepted until October 6 or until all slots have been filled. To apply, fill out the 2013 Scrimmage Registration Form.
  • September 11, 2013 / Biswa
    The next meeting of the Los Altos Robotics Board is scheduled for 7:30pm on Tuesday, October 1 in Room 522 or 521 of Mountain View High school.  Room 521/522 is a bit hard to find in that you have to walk from the back parking lot (at Bryant and Bower) past the pool and the tennis courts into a small courtyard between a couple of buildings. See this Google Map with green markers in the student parking lot (A) and close to the front door of room 521 (B).
  • August 26, 2013 / Biswa
    The calendar of events on the FLL page has been updated for the 2013 season.

    Important upcoming dates:

    August 27 - FLL 2013 Challenge unveiled at 9am PST on www.firstlegoleague.org

    August 27 and September 3 - Los Altos Robotics parent orientation meetings from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm at Mountain View High School (3535 Truman Avenue, Mountain View) in room 521. Event sponsored by Mountain View High School 971 FRC Spartan Robotics team.  Google Map with green markers in the student parking lot (A) and close to the front door of room 521 (B). Here are presentation slides in pdf format.
  • June 2, 2013/Biswa
    Time  to start planning for the 2013 season!

    Start planning over the summer for the annual Los Altos Robotics FIRST LEGO League (FLL) program.  FLL is a worldwide program with over 16,000 teams involved.  This year's challenge, Nature's Fury, will help kids explore the awe-inspiring storms, quakes, waves and more that we call natural disasters. The robot game will be announced worldwide on August 27th, 2013, but team registration is open now! (For more information see links below.)

    Talk to your friends and others at your school and in your neighborhood to start forming teams so you'll be ready to go when school resumes.  The Participating in Los Altos Robotics FLL page also has the "I Need a Team List" that you can use to find a team for your child or more team members for your team.

    Parents are welcome to attend an informational meeting: August 27th, 2013 7:30pm-9pm at Mountain View High School (3535 Truman Avenue, Mountain View), Room 521. Come join us to learn more about the program and network with other coaches/parents.

    To stay updated on robotics over the summer, please join the TigerBots email group.
  • May 8, 2013/Biswa

    The Los Altos Robotics Board of Directors (a community group of volunteers) met and agreed to put on an FLL scrimmage and tournament this year.  Board meetings are held at Mountain View High School (3535 Truman Avenue, Mountain View) in Room 521.  Board meetings are open to the public.  See the Los Altos Robotics Calendar for upcoming Board of Directors meetings and other events.

    For registration information to Los Altos Robotics, please visit the
    Participating in Los Altos Robotics FLL page first and then email MichaelnullLosAltosRobotics.Org or call Michael Schuh at (650) 965-8037This is where Los Altos Robotics Orientation, Training, and Competition materials are archived. if you still have questions.  The Participating in Los Altos Robotics FLL page also has the "I Need a Team List" that you can use to find a team for your child or more team members for your team.  The "I Need a Team List" is open and available for the 2013 season.

    For registration information with NorCal FLL, please visit www.norcalfll.org. For registration information with US FLL, please visit gofll.usfll.org.

 

2012 Archive

 

Announcements

  • December 2, 2012/Biswa
    Pictures and videos of the tournament are available! See the FLL Competitions page for links.  Many thanks to our photographer Sally Li and videographer Andy Woo.
  • November 28, 2012/Biswa
    The tournament was a success, thanks to the teams, coaches, parents and volunteers that made it happen.  Results, awards and photo link are available on the FLL Competitions page.
  • November 17, 2012/Biswa
    The Los Altos FLL Tournament is here! 
    Sunday November 18, 8:30am to 5:30pm at Blach Intermediate School located at 1120 Covington Rd, Los Altos, CA 94024.  Be sure to read the competition handout for details on the event, schedule, packing list, match rules, judging, and other details you need to know if your team is participating or if you are just attending.  Team judging and mission schedule posted here. All visitors are welcome.
  • October 27, 2012/Biswa
    The Los Altos FLL Tournament is just a few weeks away!  Sunday November 18, 8:30am to 5:30pm at Blach Intermediate School.  Teams registered through NorCalFLL will participate in this official FLL qualifier tournament.  Details will be posted here and to the TigerBots mailing list soon.  All visitors are welcome.
  • October 27, 2012/Biswa
    The 2012 Scrimmage was a great success!  Thanks to all of our coordinators and volunteers who made it happen.  Team scores are available here, and detailed mission scoring for each run can be found here.  We had a record 29 teams participate this year. Pictures can be found here.
  • October 17, 2012/Biswa
    Tournament registration information for Northern California tournaments is available at NorCalFLL.
  • September 25, 2012/Biswa
    New FLL team registration at the national level is now closed.
  • September 16, 2012/Biswa
    Tournament Pre-Registration information for Northern California tournaments is now posted at NorCalFLL. If your team is planning on attending a tournament, be sure to follow the pre-registration directions soon, so that your team will meet all of the pre-reqs by the deadline of October 2, 2012. This includes paying the qualifier fee, filling out the team details form, and getting all liability/consent waivers by mail to NorCalFLL.
  • September 14, 2012/Biswa
    Los Altos Robotics is now accepting applications for our FLL Scrimmage on Sunday October 21. The scrimmage will run from 12:00 - 5 p.m. at Blach School, 1120 Covington Road, Los Altos. 24 teams can be accommodated. Registrations will be accepted until September 30 or until all slots have been filled. To apply, fill out the 2012 Scrimmage Registration Form.
  • September 5, 2012/Michael
    Here are the slides from the September 4 Parent Orientation meeting (PowerPoint version).  Thanks to Betsy Atler and Peter Stanley for a great presentation and the Mountain View High School Spartan Robotics team for hosting this meeting.
  • September 1, 2012/Michael
    Los Altos Robotics 2012 First LEGO League Flyer (PowerPoint version) advertises the availability of the FLL program to children in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. It has all of the key dates and events for the 2012 season. Feel free to distribute it to anyone you think might benefit from seeing it, such as potential team members and coaches.  Thank you April Liu for creating it and distributing it at some of our local schools.
  • August 26, 2012/Michael
    The Los Altos Robotics Board of Directors (a community group of volunteers) met and agreed to put on an FLL scrimmage and tournament this year. 

    There will be a Parent Orientation Meeting on Tuesday September 4th, 2012 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm at Mountain View High School in room 112.  "This is a great opportunity to hear from other parents on what's involved in coaching a team, an overview of the season, and plenty of time for Q&A.  I hope to see many new families join us this year!" says event leader Betsy Atler.

2011 Archive

 

Announcements

  • New 2011! What is FIRST video featuring Dean Kamen, Founder of FLL and i.am.FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll featuring will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas

 

 


2010 Archive

Announcements

  • August 2010 Announcement Flyer: The Los Altos Robotics 2010 First LEGO League Flyer (PowerPoint version) was used to advertise the availability of the FLL program to children in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Feel free to distribute it to anyone you think might benefit from seeing it, such as potential team members and coaches.
  • August 2010 Frequent Flyer Announcement: This shorter text only announcement was given to the Los Altos school district office to be distributed to the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills students.

Training Materials

September 7, 2010 Parent Orientation: Slides (PowerPoint version) from the Los Altos Robotics FLL Parent Orientation meeting that was held at Oak Avenue School. Slides from Parent meeting held on Tuesday October 7, 2010 at Oak Avenue Elementary School. Mike Murray put on the presentation. More than 22 parents attended. At least 6 board members and two former FLL team members attend to help out. Thank you Michael Murray.

2009 Archive

Announcements

Training Materials

September 10, 2009 Parent Orientation: Slides (PowerPoint version) from the Los Altos Robotics FLL Parent Orientation meeting that was held at Oak Avenue School. Thank you Michael Murray.

2008 Archive

Announcements

Training Materials

September 14, 2008 Coaches Training: Three hours of training for coaches, assistant coaches and team managers. There was material for both new teams and experienced teams.

  • Edmond Macaluso gave the opening remarks, summary of last year.
  • Gordon Elder presented an overview of the upcoming 2008 season for all teams.
  • Warren Horowitz discussed the benefits of the research project.
  • Gordon started the new coaches training with a description of what to expect and a minor amount on how FLL robots work.
  • Michael Schuh presented the coaching guidelines.
  • Mike Murray described team management.

Here are the slides:

We did not provide much training on robots or software. With NXT, we feel even the young teams can figure it out on their own. For training, just create a mini challenge for them: go in a square, go close to wall without touching, sumo, etc. Then let them go.

2006 Archive

Announcements

  • August 2006 Announcement Flyer: The Los Altos Robotics 2006 First LEGO League Flyer was used to advertise the availability of the FLL program to children in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Feel free to distribute it to anyone you think might benefit from seeing it, such as potential team members and coaches.

Training Materials

  • September 5, 2006 Parent Orientation: Slides from Los Altos Robotics FLL Parent Orientation meeting that was held at Covington School.
  • September 10, 2006 Coaches Training: The three hours of training for coaches, assistant coaches and team managers was packed with lots of tips and information to get teams started on the right track. There was material for both new teams and experienced teams. Gordon Elder lead this session with a set of slides (black and white version) that he and Michael presented from.

    Austin and Travis presented robot building and programming recommendations and tips (black and white version) that they gained from their six years of experiences as members of several highly successful FLL teams. They updated their 2005 presentation to include materials on the MINDSTORMS NXT robot kit in addition to the MINDSTORMS RCX robot kit. Slides 21 and 22 have invaluable advice on Navigation and are worthy of posting for all to read during team meetings. There are two videos that are part of this presentation but do not play from the PDF files. The videos are available with the two links below. You will probably want to watch these videos more than once so do a "save as" to your local computer and then watch them from there rather than downloading them multiple time. Slide 41 is a 62 MByte video from the 2003 team Travis was a member of that shows the teams winning run with a relatively simple robot in the 2003 Northern California State Competition. The first 2.5 minutes show the robot run and the last 1.5 minutes show part of the awards ceremony. Slide 42 is a 40 MByte video that Austin and Travis made showing their team's complicated robot from the 2004 Northern California State Competition. They won the Directors Award with this robot. Most teams are well advised to create simpler robots. With this advice in mind, it is still fun to watch the video to see what six year veterans can do with LEGOs. Someday they plan on adding more to the video to explain what is going on and why they did things the way they did.

2005 Archive

Announcements

We send in announcements to Kathleen Acoff at the Los Altos Town Crier Newspaper. She said "the newspaper drop-dead deadlines are generally noon on Fridays, but if I know it's coming early Monday morning after a weekend event, I can usually manage."

  • October 16, 2005 Scrimmage Announcements:
  • November 19, 2005 Local Competition (Regional Qualifying Event) Announcements:

Training Materials

Competition Materials

This is where you can find the materials we use to put on the Scrimmage and Local Competition. The Local Competition is a State Qualifying Regional event.

    • Scoring Spread Sheet: This Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is designed for scoring both a Scrimmage and State Qualifying Regional Competition. A Scrimmage is a practice tournament without any judging. The Scrimmage has fun award categories like Highest Score.

      This spreadsheet has been developed and enhanced since 1999. It is easy and intuitive for people to use and retains all of the individual mission scores from every run made by a team. The "Guide" sheet with in the spreadsheet describes how to use it. The spreadsheet uses macros to compute the winners of the Local Competition event. They are not needed for anything else so the spreadsheet will work fine for most uses with out macros being enabled. Other features include the "Team Score" sheet which is included in handout we give to coaches on competition day to record their team's scores. It also has the "Awards Summary" sheet that lists all of the awards and lists what order the awards are to be given out during the awards part of the tournament.
    • Version 2.13, 15 Nov 05, version for the November 19, 2005 Local Competition at Oak School. Referee sheets for Oak Avenue and Covington Schools to be given to teams before the event so they can become familure with what the referees will be using at the competition.
    • Version 2.1, 25 Sep 05, has been updated for the Ocean Odyssey challenge on both the Scrimmage sheet and Referee sheet (pdf of Referee sheet). This version will be distributed to early users so that they can use it to track their team's scores during team meetings (use the "Scrimmage Scoring" sheet or the "Ref Sheet") and report any problems back to MichaelTransparent blue at with underline for hiding email addresses.LosAltosRobotics.Org for improvements.
    • Scrimmage Certificates: This Version 05.3, 04 Oct 05 Microsoft PowerPoint file has the certificates that we will use at our scrimmage events. It is easily modified to add other awards by adding new pages or modifying existing pages. The main certificate background can be changed by modifying the "master slide" (select the View/Master/SlideMaster option under MS PowerPoint version 2003).
    • Local Competition Certificates: This Version 05.4, 10 Nov 05 Microsoft PowerPoint file has the certificates that we will use at our Local Competition events. It is easily modified to add other awards by adding new pages or modifying existing pages. The main certificate background can be changed by modifying the "master slide" (select the View/Master/SlideMaster option under MS PowerPoint version 2003).
    • Referee Training Guide: The OCEAN_ODYSSEY_REF_GUIDE_FINAL_2005.doc 18Nov05 document is the Referee Training Guide created by Scott Evans for the 2005 season. Scott Evans is and has been the FLL game creator since the beginning of FLL. It is very helpful for Referees and Tournament Directors to read this before a competition. Posted with Scott's permission.
    • Team Names and Information: The RegisteredTeamsV1p11_16Oct05_cleaned.xls file has the team names and other information. In the full version of the file, I also include the coaches' names and email addresses. I print the table out and post it at the events so that people know who is participating.
    • Game Description and Information Bulleten Boards: We have found it very helpful to have one or two bulletin boards with the game description and information and Local Competition event information. Often times I have seen attendees stand in front of a board and spend many minutes reading. I am convinced that these help teams understand what is going on and better enjoy the event.
    • Supply Box List: I have a box of supplies that I take to competitions. This is a list of the contents.
    • Volunteer Tracking Spread Sheet: The TeamListAndVolunteers_clean05.xls is what I use to track volunteer positions and volunteers for the Scrimmage and Local Competition. I draw volunteers from the team that I coach, other teams, teams from past seasons, personal friends, people from work, and from my church. The State Tournament organizers also helped provide volunteers for the event. I like to recruit people not associated with the teams as judges and referees. I may recruit my older sons as referees even though their brother’s team would likely be one of the teams they referee. I show eight judges. You can do fine with four; however, eight is nicer.
    • Team Handouts for Local Competition: The first two pages of the LocalComp_TeamHandout_v05p4.ppt file will be printed back to back and handed out to the coaches. I may print some extra ones and give them to the spectators. It lists the judging schedule, has the schedule for the day, and a place for coaches to record their scores. The schedules were generated from the output of the MatchTimes.perl script which is avialable below.
    • Event Schedule for Local Competition: The LocalComp_EventSchedule_v05p3.doc file has the schedule for the competition day.
    • Event Announcements for Local Competition: The LocalComp_EventAnnouncements_v05p4.doc file contains the announcements I will make at the beginning and the end of the tournament. The Head Judge, Head Referee, and others will make announcements as indicated in the file. It is really hard for me to keep everything in mind on tournament day so I try and write out what I want to do in the announcements and agenda.
    • Event Scheduling Tool for Local Competition: The MatchTimes.perl file uses Perl and Gnuplot to show how the team's competition and judging times fit in the day (MatchTimes.pdf) and to show which teams play which with error messages when team play each other more than once (MatchPairings.pdf). The big problem that this script addresses is how to schedule the teams so that they would have more than just a few minutes between judging sessions and competition sessions. While the script does not solve the problem directly, it provides visualization of the team schedules so you can more quickly solve the problem. As it is configured, it shows my best solution for a 12 team tournament where teams are judged during one of the first 4 rounds and compete during the other 3 rounds and all teams compete during the fifth round.
    • Team name posters for each table at competition: The TeamNamesParticipationAwardCommentsOakMailMergePrint.doc file was made from the TeamNamesParticipationAwardCommentsOakMailMerge.doc file and it uses the TeamNamesPostersTableOakData.doc file for data. As it says in the file, this form is for the Announcer or someone else take notes during the competition about what is unique about each team. After all of the matches, this person will

 

  • Call each team up
  • Say something about the team and or their robot

 

    • Ask them to place their robot on one of the playing fields in a fun position.
  • Team name posters for each table at competition: The TeamNamesPostersPrintOak.doc file has the posters for putting on the team tables. It was created from the TeamNamesPostersOakMailMerge.doc file and again uses the TeamNamesPostersTableOakData.doc file for data.
  • Scrimmage Event Plan from 2001: Back in 2001, I created a Scrimmage Event Plan with the idea that others might use it to put on simple scrimmage events. It still has some useful ideas so I have included it here.
  • Dean Bio: I like to post this Dean Kamen bio at our events so people can learn more about him. I also like to thank Dean and talk about all he has done in the opening remarks for each tournament.
  • Feed Back From 2004 FLL Season: I read through the FeedbackFrom2004FLLSeason_V1.3_04Dec04.doc file and found several good ideas that I incorporated in this year's schedule and materials. I think it is worth reading again just before the competition and plan to do so that morning.
  • Final Results for 2005 FLL Season: After the competition, I summarize the results and post them (2005 season results) so that teams can see the details of all the teams. I start with these doc files for Covington and Oak Avenue schools and then use Adobe Acrobat to add in the pages generated from the scoring system and other files.
  • Comments on judging (long) from MN Program Director: Fred Rose is the Program Director from the Minnesota FLL program with over 200 teams and he wrote these comments on judging after some of their 2005 regional qualifying tournaments. I have many of the same feelings, concerns, and thoughts that Fred describes in his message. I think it would be helpful if everyone took the time to read what Fred wrote and think about what he has said. I have immense respect for Fred and appreciate his contribution to FLl and him taking the time to write up his comments.
  • More Comments from a coach about coaching a team at competitions from a MN Program Coach: This is a coach's response to some questions about how to help a team deal with tough competition situations.
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  • Judges' Guide from FIRST: Local and qualifying organizers with events posted on www.firstlegoleague.org can contact Nancy Paul at FIRST, npaul@usfirst.org, for a Judges' Guide, associated training material, and as a resource for questions about running an event.

Future versions will be posted as they are available and in time for our competition events. Email MichaelTransparent blue at with underline for hiding email addresses.LosAltosRobotics.Org if you want to be notified of their availability.