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with a team.
FIRST LEGO League teams are formed from five to ten children from nine to fourteen years old. As a volunteer, you
have at least four choices as far as the role you would play:
(1) You can work with a teacher with students in the target age bracket to use LEGO robotics as part of a regular
class, as part of an after school club or class, or something similar. After talking to a teacher, your involvement
can start with a single classroom visit and then you can decide whether you have the time and interest to continue.
(2) You can work with the leader of an existing club like AWSEM, MESA,, Boys & Girls Club, Scouts, etc. We
can introduce you to more details and connections to these organizations. After talking to a club leader, your
involvement can start with a single visit to a single club meeting. You can decide later whether you have the time
and interest to continue as a technical mentor or a team coach.
(3) You can recruit the children yourself and work out any plan you like as to how often they meet, where they
meet, how often you attend the meetings, etc. The primary goal is to help the children learn about technical problem
solving. The secondary goal is to help them get ready for the tournament in early December.
(4) You can help recruit other coaches to facilitate the creation of lots of teams.
We will be holding workshops
for volunteers from now until October 2003. At these workshops you will learn more about FIRST LEGO League. You
will have the opportunity to build and program a small robot. You will be introduced to how you can help ensure
that a wide variety of children have the opportunity to build team skills and gain insight into how teamwork and
creativity are used by engineers to solve practical problems. If you are interested in attending one of these workshops
at no charge see Workshops. If you cannot attend one of the currently scheduled workshops
but would like be kept informed, please contact us by email and/or fill out the Volunteer
Information Form. A sample team budget is available in Adobe Acrobat format..
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Helping
with the program.
We need several to join our planning committees. To learn more about the roles you might play click
here.
Helping at a tournament.
We need over one hundred people to help at with our tournaments in December and January. To learn more about the
roles you might play click here.
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