Resource links – norcalfllc

NORCAL CURRENT SEASON PRESENTATIONS / TRAININGS

2024/2205 SUBMERGED Season :
- Oct 28: Ask Me Anything with Schilling Robotics – sign up for webinar
- Oct 22: Preparing for your Tournament w/ NorCal Program Partner – FAQ, Webinar Recording, Slides, Advancement Example
- Oct 15: Judging Q&A w/ NorCal Regional Judge Advisor Webinar Recording
- Oct 8: Robot Game Q&A w/ NorCal Regional Head Ref Webinar Recording
- Sep 11: Rookie Coach Training Webinar Recording, PDF Slides
- Aug 17: Ask An Expert with MBARI: Webinar Recording

*NATIONAL FIRST* TEAM REGISTRATION**
• FIRST Dashboard – Register – Team Registration Video, New Team Registration User Guide, • Starting A Team – Infographic, Steps to Start a Team • TEAM ROSTER – Overview, Print Team Roster

CHALLENGE DOCUMENTS/Rubrics/Build Instructions

NORCAL SPECIFIC
How do you find information? Most Important: Join norcalfll-announce googlegroup Playing At Learning FLL Challenge Youtube Channel social.norcalfllc.org – post scrimmages and local events, ask questions, connect w/ local coaches NorCal and FIRST LEGO League official policies
CURRICULUM / LESSON PLANS
FIRST Curriculum and materials for Educators LEGO Education Teacher Resources, Community Resources Additional Lessons created by community: FLLTutorials.com – Lessons for FIRST LEGO League EV3Lessons.com – Lessons for EV3 users including new Scratch-based EV3 Classroom and EV3-Lab PrimeLessons.org – Lessons for SPIKE Prime Users

Contracts:
- https://doolittleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Student-Parent-Contract-Example.docx.pdf

BUILDING LEGO ROBOTS
QLB 2.1 Robot Building Instructions by Rand Whillock Blue Angel Robotics (YouTube LEGO robot how-to Videos) EV3 R obot Design Ideas by EV3Lessons.com LEGO Engineering (programming and building tutorials by Tufts University) Mini Challenges Robot Building ver 1.3 (2004) pdf Art of LEGO Design by Fred Martin pdf BrickShelf (LEGO Build Library CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools: LDD – LEGO Digital Designer (not being updated) Studio by Bricklink – https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/
PROGRAMMING LEGO ROBOTS: EV3, NXT, and Spike PRIME
PrimeLessons.org – Lessons for SPIKE Prime Users EV3 and NXT Programming Tutorials by STEMcentric EV3 Programming Tutorials by EV3Lessons.com EV3 Education Version Programming Software (preferred), or EV3 Home Edition Programming Software Robotics for Beginners by Rowan University Laboratory – designed for teachers LEGO Engineering Programming Instructions for NXT & EV3 from Carnegie Mellon
LEGO PIECES / Previous Challenge Kits (aka Field Setup Kits)
NorCal FLL – All proceeds are used to support the NorCalFLL program LEGO Education Bricklink Amazon eBay
Remote Robot Apps:
Robot Virtual Worlds – http://www.robotvirtualworlds.com/intro-to-ev3/ Virtual Robotics Toolkit – www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com/ Coder-Z – https://gocoderz.com/

2023/2024 MASTERPIECE Season :
- Rookie Coach Training Webinar Recording
- Rookie Coach Training Slide PDF
- Ask An Expert Webinar Recording

2022/2023 SuperPowered Season :
- Rookie Coach Training Webinar Recording
- Rookie Coach Training Slide PDF
2021/2022 Cargo Connect Season :

2020/2021 RePLAY Season Q & A Webinars:
- - FLL Challenge_ Ask an Expert Robot Game(Robot Game Video Submission Guidelines Included), Slides from Webinar
  - Nov 23 FLL- Challenge RePLAY Townhall, Townhall slides
  - Aug Q&A: Slides, Recording mp4
  - Coffee with Coaches-A Coach to Coach Mentor Event 8-15 Webinar mp4
  - RePLAY Tournament Updates
2019/2020 City Shaper Season :
- NorCal FLL Returning Coach/Mentor Training: 2019 Slides PDF, Recording mp4.
- NorCal FLL Rookie Coach/Mentor Training: 2019 Slides PDF, Recording mp4.
- NorCal FLL Preparing for 2019 Qualifier Tournament – SlidesPDF, Recording mp4 .
- NorCal FLL General Volunteer Training – Slides PDF, Recording mp4 .

Remote Coaching Brainstorming Video with Coaches from around the country.

Remote Core Values/Team Building Games/Quizzes/Entertainment:
- Jackbox
- Kahoot
- Quizziz
- Escape Rooms (Teachers Helping Teachers)
- Breakout EDU
- Flipgrid
- Telestrations

• Remote Desktop for working collaboratively from a distance: