Some teams are surprised by requests for additional information about the team by the tournament director…. in order to give everyone a heads up, here are items that are sometimes requested for the November Qualifying tournament(s),and most definitely will be requested at the Championship tournament. 

 

If you list team member names on any of the items below, please do not include the full names of team members – first name only is fine.

 

First priority –  Please tell us if the team has decided not to participate in the tournaments that the team has registered for.  Each year we do have teams that decide not to participate as the last minute –  we would strongly argue against this… Typically no team feels ready, everyone wants more time.  

 

 

The tournament director in their welcome email to you or in a subsequent email will let you know exactly which of the items below to submit.

 

Most Commonly Requested Items but optional at the November Qualifiers:

• Item 1.  Team Profile.  (typically emailed in ahead of time but the team may be asked to bring copies for judges)
• Item 2.  team photo  (typically emailed / accepted formats are usually PNG, GIF or JPG)
• Item 3.  robot photo (typically emailed / accepted formats are usually PNG, GIF or JPG)
• Item 4.  Rookie team?  This is if the team  (as in all team members individually)  is in their first year of FLL (Rookie year) – coach/mentor is not important, it is the team members.   We will pass along the information from the team details form.

 

Additional Items that may be asked for by the November qualifier but not likely:

• Item 5. Short team overview including items such as any team sponsors,  your robot’s name (if there is one) and the team’s project title / issue – this information typically will be published in the tournament program.  
• Item 6:  Team Intro for the Emcee.   This would be 1 to 3 fun items about the team including sponsors, team cheer, how many years that the team has participated, etc
• Item 7. One page team slide  Here are some examples written out in PDF format from 2006..
• Item 8.  Project title and a short project abstract explaining the specific challenge issue that your team picked for their project – this should be very short (like a sentence or two, max).  2009 Smart Move Examples

 

Finally, most tournaments also request that each team coming identify an adult volunteer or bring a practice table/field for the team pit areas or bring food to help with feeding volunteers.    At the championship, we also seek nominations from all Nor Cal teams (independent if they competed at any level) for the Playing At Learning FLL Outreach, Outstanding Coach/Mentor (Youth and Adult) and Outstanding FLL Volunteer Awards.