Judging sessions
The team's success at competition is primarily determined by their ability to speak with confidence and competence to adult judges, without any help from coaches. This is the judging session, during which the team will earn 75% of their overall score at competition.
In the past, our teams have typically prepared large tri-fold boards for the presentations in front of judges. One side contains information about their robot design process, and the other has information about their innovation project process. Here's an image of the "Innovation Project" side one of RoboHive's past "Big Board":
Note the clearly defined sections, designed to make it very hard for judges to miss that we've included everything they're looking for in their rubrics on the board:
- Identify
- Design
- Create
- Iterate
- Communicate
Consult the rubrics to calibrate the information your team should place on each side.
Judges should adhere to the judging session schedule during the judging session. Coaches must familiarize themselves with the schedule and train their team to adhere to it during judging practice sessions.
Below is a link to the scoring rubrics from the 2024 FLL season. These will give you a good understanding of what the judges will be looking for during the competition.
The link will be updated when the 2025 season materials are available.
Items teams must bring to judging sessions
- Big board
- Their robot and attachments
- Binder containing team info sheet and printed code
- Innovation project
- Scripts for their 5-minute presentations on both robot design and innovation project