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Introduction to Robotics Club New FLL Team As today was the first meeting back after the school holidays, we introduced the younger years to robotics club, and to the First Lego League. We have almost completely re-vamped our Team, with six new members. we have explained what the FLL is, and the different sections we have to complete for it; Robot game, Project, Core values and Robot design. SUMO Competition The rest of the members (mostly year seven and eights) of robotics club are competing in a SUMO competition using EV3 kits that the club has from previous years of FLL. The year sevens and eights arranged themselves in teams of 6 to 8. After the FLL has finished, we will be running an FLL re-run for them. This will include building and coding robots to do this year's FLL tasks.

Introduction to the FLL Today we were introducing the new year sevens to Robotics Club. They were shown an introductory presentation that went over the details of the FLL competition. The more experienced members of the club started to set up the practice board. They used the mission models that the new year sevens had started to build. Some of the year sevens shared their opinions on the prospect of going to a competition outside of the curriculum. Paarth said 'it's Awesome!!'. In the following weeks, The club will be split into three groups: Project, Building and Coding. These groups will work on the appropriate sections of the competition requirements. The coding team will work on the code for the robot; the building team will build the robot; the project team will work on a document researching a chosen topic on the theme 'into orbit' and a presentation on how to solve problems regarding the theme.