Example recipes for season success

The below example google sheets are resources we've come up with over the past several years which we've found to be very helpful in organizing and executing a successful season. You are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to copy the entirety of each workbook and make updates for your own team's use.

Aaron Atkinson's FLL recipe

Aaron was a very successful FLL coach for several years, and he gathered notes we all took over our years of coaching and compiled them into this google sheet.

Of particular note are the "Core Values", "Innovation Project", "Robot Design", and "Presentation" tab.

Note the "Schedule" tab, which you should copy and paste into your own team's workbook to ensure you're hitting milestones when you need.

Of course it is up to you to decide how you want to run your team, but these have been useful in the past.

Aaron's worksheets for Identify and Design phases

Here is the workbook with sheets for various purposes. Overall, the worksheets are helpful tools for getting the kids to think critically about how the robot should interact with models to earn points, and what type of robot should be built. The major idea here is to get the kids to gather data, and make decisions based on the evidence. Keep the worksheets they've filled out and put them on the big boards for judging. This data-based decision making will be part of their story in front of judges.