The Core Values
The core values of FIRST are important to use in competition and in life. The core values of FLL are:
At competition your team is judged on their core values through a smaller challenge called the ore values challenge. This challenge could be a number of different activities, every tournament is different. However there is one thing in common between all of them. The judges don't care as much whether your team can complete this activity or not within the time limit.
The most important thing to know is that it is not about the challenge. It about how your team used their core values to work together. If during your time in the judging room everyone is yelling at each other and not listening to other's ideas then you will get a poor mark. If your team works together discussing ideas you will do well. DO NOT let completing the task worry you.
You can find some practice exercises to prepare for competition here (I highly encourage trying these out):
- We are a team
- We do the work to find solutions with guidance from our coaches and mentors
- We know our coaches and mentors don't have all the answers; we learn together
- We honor the spirit of friendly competition
- What we discover is more important than what we win
- We share our experiences with others
- We display Gracious Professionalism® and Coopertition® in everything we do
- We have FUN!
At competition your team is judged on their core values through a smaller challenge called the ore values challenge. This challenge could be a number of different activities, every tournament is different. However there is one thing in common between all of them. The judges don't care as much whether your team can complete this activity or not within the time limit.
The most important thing to know is that it is not about the challenge. It about how your team used their core values to work together. If during your time in the judging room everyone is yelling at each other and not listening to other's ideas then you will get a poor mark. If your team works together discussing ideas you will do well. DO NOT let completing the task worry you.
You can find some practice exercises to prepare for competition here (I highly encourage trying these out):
- Blind Build - Half of the team stands on one side of a table with a covered piece of paper. The paper will have the name of some object. Without saying what the object is, they must instruct the other half of the team on the opposite side of the table to build the object.
- MegaSherades - Together the team receives a piece of paper labelled with an object's name. Using all the team members, the team must arrange their bodies in a way that their coach can guess the object. As an added bonus, the team cannot talk to the coach or each other.
- The Claw Game - In pairs of 2-3, students must move 10 LEGO blocks from the floor into their bin. However, before they begin they must choose a piece of paper at random from a hat. Each piece of paper in the hat will have a different body part written on it (ex. elbow, pinky, big toe) and they can only use that body part to move the LEGO. To make this more difficult, mix up the body parts within a group. For example, two people in a group could be trying to move a block with a pinky and a toe.
- 1234 - Standing in a circle facing outward, the team must count as high as they can without someone repeating a number or two people saying the same number. They may not say anything else other than numbers. Hands must stay behind their backs and heads facing outward. They must find other means of communicating if they can.
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