Jobs, Rules, and Missions

Last week we discussed the various jobs the would need to be done over the course of the season, and who would do them.  The jobs and the volunteers to do them were:

- Attendance: Georgia

- Finance: Ethan or Jadzia

- Research: Amy

- Equipment: Ethan

- Programming: Olivia, Amy

- Building: Tara, Macy, Ethan

- Rules and Updates: Ethan

The secret word for this week is Glen.  Olivia and I went to Bayview Glen Middle School in Toronto on Saturday for their FLL Kickoff.  Bayview Glen had three of the top five teams in Ontario last year, and won first place for research at the World Championships in St. Louis.  They're good, and they gave a lot of good presentations loaded with valuable advice.

One piece of advice is: read, re-read, and re-re-read the rules.  The rules are posted here: 

http://www.firstlegoleague.org/sites/default/files/Challenge/TRASH-TREK/TRASH-TREK-Challenge.pdf

  and updates to the rules are posted here:

http://www.firstlegoleague.org/sites/default/files/Challenge/TRASH-TREK/FLL%20TRASH%20TREK%20UPDATES.pdf

Everyone should read and be familiar with the rules.

This week we're going to prioritize the missions, i.e. decide what order to work on them.  That starts by understanding the rules, and the points for accomplishing each mission.  So read the rules.

To clarify how the scoring works, there's an interactive scoring app at:

http://educatedrobot.com/trashtrek.html