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Los Altos Robotics FLL Coaches Training September 14, 2008. Opening Remarks Edmond Macaluso. Today’s instructors have extensive FLL experience. Gordon Elder (training organizer): Coach for 5 years. Team won numerous awards and won NCaFLL tournament in 2006. Went to World Festival.
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Los Altos Robotics FLL Coaches Training September 14, 2008 Opening Remarks Edmond Macaluso
Today’s instructors have extensive FLL experience • Gordon Elder (training organizer): • Coach for 5 years. Team won numerous awards and won NCaFLL tournament in 2006. Went to World Festival. • Michael Schuh (founder of Los Altos Robotics) • Coach for 8 years in FLL, Botball and helps FIRST High school. • Teams have won numerous awards including NCaFLL in 2004. • Mike Murray (volunteer coordinator) • FLL coach for several years, team was Los Altos highest performance at NCaFLL last year. Has been a judge at other tournaments. • Warren Horowitz (coach) • Coach for 2 years. Team won research project award 2 years in a row in Los Altos and best rookie team at NCaFLL in 2006. • Edmond Macaluso (board coordinator) • Coach for 2 years. Team finished 8th in NCaFLL in 2005.
Share the experience • All of today’s instructors have made many coaching mistakes • Too much involvement • Not organizing well • Not understanding how kids do things • Some seasons go well / some are a challenge • Kids don’t get along / not into it • Robots have a bad day • etc. • Kids always get a lot out of it • Enjoy the journey • They learn from success • They learn from mistakes
Summary from last year (from survey) • Blach was good, viewing could be better • Why judging didn’t seem to match robot performance • Reward teams for more complex bots that may not be as reliable • Reward teams for clever ideas • More difficult challenge will require more advanced bots • Why research presentations requirements seem to favor presentations vs content • Dean Kamen wants to celebrate technology - have fun • Presentations are very important in engineering • Rubric describes have clever presentations • Sample presentations from FIRST are this way
Call for help • Board recruiting • need your help - will need several new members for next year • give back