Mentoring FLL: The Pipeline Strategy

Seniors graduate. Knowledge is lost. The team dies. Unless you have a Pipeline.

The Feeder System

1. FLL Explore (Grades K-4): Get them excited about LEGO.
2. FLL Challenge (Grades 4-8): Teach them logic, sensors, and project management.
3. FTC (Grades 7-12): They arrive knowing how to think like engineers.

Student Mentors

Send your FTC students to mentor FLL teams.

• Benefit 1: The FLL kids look up to them (“Big kids!”).
• Benefit 2: The FTC students reinforce their own knowledge by teaching.
• Benefit 3: Judges love “Cross-Program Interaction”.

Conclusion

If you want to win this year, build a robot. If you want to win every year, build a program.