Mentoring FLL: The Pipeline Strategy
Don't let your team die when you graduate. Building a feeder system using First Lego League.
Mentoring FLL: The Pipeline Strategy
Seniors graduate. Knowledge is lost. The team dies. Unless you have a Pipeline.
The Feeder System
- FLL Explore (Grades K-4): Get them excited about LEGO.
- FLL Challenge (Grades 4-8): Teach them logic, sensors, and project management.
- 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.