How to Win FIRST LEGO League! - FLL 2020: RePlay

[@susanmcmullen8629]

My FLL Challenge team "The 3 Must-A-Coders" favorite core value is teamwork. Not only did they work great among themselves, I think we grew as a cohesive team with students and 2 teachers. I feel like I really bonded with my kiddos because of this experience. Thank you to all those coaches out there! Thanks Zachary!

[@taryneva5128]

My students favorite core value is inclusion (yes I asked them) and I agree! We are struggling this year due to Covid and school being closed. It has been a lot of me driving things to student houses for them to practice, picking things up to clean and sanitized, and then dropping them off to another student. They feel that inclusion is important because they want everyone in our class to have an opportunity to participate, so they build, share, I transport, and then they repeat! They would love to add this our materials to build/repeat/share AND include! PS: Your videos have been amazing to share with my kids! Direct teaching via Zoom is hard! Your videos are inspirational to them and to me!

[@nathanward8055]

My favorite core value to teach my team is "FUN"....yes Legos are fun to play with, but I love the first time a student sees a robot that they built and coded come to life..you can see their spirit soar!

[@masondoerre6446]

My favorite core value is fun, because I believe that FLL is to have fun.

[@liesbetlaevens3438]

My students told me that, before the competition, they didn't know each other at all. Now they know each others talents AND struggles. They respect eachother more then before, because they went trough a challenge together.They made fun by taking video's and pictures, they ate lunch together so they could practice over noon. I saw them talking and inspire each other with their ideas. I saw them solve little conflicts themselves.. I saw honest cooperation. And by thinking of all this, I cannot tell you ONE favourite core value, because they work like a chain... But I do agree that the most important category is this one. It's awesome to see them grow like this! Thanks for the inspiring video's! See you soon @Cargo Connect!! ;)

[@nwodochinelo2014]

I just love this guy so much So much wisdom

[@raghadal_khateeb4732]

My favorite core values are serenity and love that is reflected in teamwork ... because having such values in the team drives the team to creativity, innovation and enjoyment, whatever the end result.✨✨

[@hutchcrew]

Gracious professional. I love that phrase. We are all human and have ups and downs, struggles and celebration moments. I think my favorite way to show grace as a professional is to simply try to understand others and let them be heard. Be there for them and value their thoughts and ideas.

[@nwodochinelo2014]

My teams favorite core value is Fun, that's what we really believe in because there is hard work but fun is a vital core values in fll . What ever we do we just need to have fun. That's why my team have fun by given our attachments names 🙂❤️ And I really want to say a big thank you to you Zack u have been a pillar to my inspiration.

[@resaliputra4910]

My favorite core value is FUN, life is too short and you really unlock the best when you have fun while doing it.

[@RobertDoering]

Zachary, thank you for supporting coaches with resources to inspire our students. My favorite core value is discovery. I enjoy when a student has an “AHA!”moment when working on a problem. Inspiration comes from solving problems. Discovery is a great teacher. As coaches we shape the discovery to something the student can use or a skill that will carry them to a career that will make this world a better place.

[@maratreus]

My favorite core is teamwork because it helps build up the others and it even helps maintain the which is often forgotten but very important for when you need then the most. (I had a tough time recently and my friends from FFL realy helped me)

[@paulstacyanderson5057]

Zachary, thank you for all of your insight. This is my first year as a coach/mentor after watching my child compete for 2 years, but the rest of his team aged out of FLL. My favorite core value is: Discovery. I have discovered so much this year...much of it thanks to you. Working with my wife and another child's mother, we watched this brand new team of 6 boys truly DISCOVER a lot about themselves and their community as we put together our project and robot. Our team Layton LEGO Llamas place 1st in an "invitational scrimmage" (a limited-access in-person even) and placed 4th in the robot games at the Northern Utah State tournament (all virtual) and in the top 15 in each of the other categories. One thing I really DISCOVERED is that documentation and presentation is key to doing well at the competitions. It was like pulling teeth to get our boys to document their failures and successes. I came across another team's journal of how they would approach every mission before deciding which ones they would pursue for competition. This really helped me to see where our team came-up short, and discovered some definite areas for improvement for next year. I hope you keep your videos here on KZbin. I definitely will still need to refer to them as I continue to learn and discover more about our Spike Prime, name Dave. Thanks again for all your time, effort and assistance. My wife is a teacher, so I know you have sacrificed a lot of personal time to help educate many FLL-ers everywhere.

[@danc1512]

Incredible. Your PBJ video with pseudocode is excellent too. Your students are lucky to have such passion in the classroom.

[@rociomontalvo6005]

I'm preparing wro with my students. Looking for ideas I found your channel. It is so helpful. Thanks

[@schoolcloud1761]

Thank You for supporting teachers and coaches, students Love your channel 👍👍👍

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

It’s a huge pleasure!!

[@hugocorripio-lopez4453]

Zac, we love your channel. My chosen value is INCLUSION, which is very close to Teamwork, but I think that without inclusion we fall apart in a world that can be very selfie(sh)... Looking forward to your classroom resources for next year. Keep it going!

[@michaeltawata3374]

Innovation has to be my favorite core value. At my school there are students who get good grades without studying and give up when something doesn’t come naturally. Robotics is perfect. In FLL nothing seems to work on the first try. Programs need to be adjusted. Attachments need to be revised. The more you learn about a problem the bigger it seems to get… and that’s normal. It is nice to be able to remind them that it’s right there in the core values. By itself, creativity (or any other gift) isn’t enough. You also need to have persistence. Off topic: I struck up a conversation with a team that was using a slightly modded version of your robot design. They told me how “that guy’s” wall line up technique helped them so much and how “his'' passive attachment saved them so much time. I asked them if they knew how to pronounce your last name because I was pretty sure I was saying it wrong. Turns out they didn’t know either and refer to you as Mr.T. Thanks Mr.T for all of the great videos and inspiring so many students.

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

Michael, CONGRATULATIONS! You are the winner of the giveaway! Aside from being the winner, it sounds like you have provided an extrememly fruitful FLL experience for youngsters. KEEP IT UP! Please provide an email so I can get in touch with you (I'll delete the comment with the email once I copy it down. Thanks for watching!

[@michaeltawata3374]

@@ZacharyTrautwein Wow! I can't believe I didn't see this sooner. The end of this school year in particular has been crazy but, what a way to end it. My team is going to be blown away! Thank you so much. [e-mail]

[@Flightkitten]

My comp team was just me doing the coding, and I can confirm when all your teammates are goofing off it is MUCH easier to get work done

[@radionicestvaraonice]

You are awesome! We are tim Medvedgradski inženjeri from Croatia and your videos are helping us a lot!

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

That’s for watching! Croatia is such a beautiful place!!

[@raghadal_khateeb4732]

I agree with you ... the core values are very important in all types of competitions, not only the FLL, and in fact I participated the previous year, but we were not lucky, the beautiful contest was that I enjoyed it only because I wanted the pleasure of participating only, so I did not feel much sad when we lost and decided to participate Also, this year, I am very excited, and we hope that it is not from a distance, because it is fun to participate and see other teams and so on ..

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

It is such a wonderful program, right!?! Have an amazing season!

[@raghadal_khateeb4732]

@@ZacharyTrautwein ya ,that is.. I hope that you will help us as much as possible this season, as you can put an inspiring video to build the utilities to accomplish the tasks of the table!! and thank you for your efforts

[@anshnamoradia7401]

I’m so excited for this year!,

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

awesome!

[@GregorioGutierrezelteacher]

we need more videos from you!!! please

[@nathanbarry9534]

Discovery. Almost every day at dinner we discuss what we learned that day. Days where nothing sunk in are disappointing and we work to have way more learning days than not

[@Moon-lj3rx]

Eee we have a competition this year so this will be helpful thank you so much god bless you all

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

Good luck!!

[@marcusanttila]

My favourite core value is innovation. Innovation is critical to the future of humanity and civilisations in general. Innovation is what sets the Homo Sapiens species apart from others. The ability to innovate and to make new and never before thought of things perfectly sums up the whole FIRST program. In FLL teams have to make a innovative and effective robot to complete multiple simple missions in a small space of time and construct a project to help and change the world for the better. I feel that innovation should be and integral part of everyone’s education and future. Society’s that fail to innovate in high levels never succeed and are always lost. This is why in a world where everything seems to be already thought of it is important and critical to find new ideas and to explore old ones. My FLL team has always attempted to innovate in all fields where we can. Even if most of our ludicrous ideas get fully scrapped, some of them become a reality. I feel that innovation is the most important characteristic a human can have, and success is almost dependent of innovation and perseverance.

[@beekeepingengineer5236]

We are a robotics group from Israel and we are inspired by the videos you publish. The value we love is discovery, because a good idea starts with asking the right question, continues in search of something that does not yet exist, finally excitement from finding a solution or exciting discovery and advancing us to the future. Thank you for helping us with new and interesting discoveries. You are greatly appreciated. Group 873 FLL Israel.

[@lpsy_lip]

hi. We will participate in one of these competitions in 3 months. How do they choose programming? And can you give some information about the race?Please help me

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

Sure! SPIKE 3 is the progamming environment that we'll be working with! You'll want to keep programming simple so there is less room to mess up! Have you checked out this video?: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4XKqZuJgNeWqdk

[@FLL-HamerLegoBreakers_888]

In the robot game and the inovation we the best in or cantry, but steel not in the core values, that was very important for my, thanks a lot!!

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

Congrats! And good luck!

[@FLL-HamerLegoBreakers_888]

@@ZacharyTrautwein Thanks!🖤🤍💙

[@coachkc2565]

I completely 1000% agree! It’s all about the takeaways and not the trophies! I showed the kids this video at practice today and their answers were: Parker: inclusion is most important to me. I like best that we all work to include our teammates. Hayden: I like that our team doesn’t just say it...we find ways to make it happen. Jaelyn: we are all friends even though we play different sports, are into different things, and have different groups of friends. Man, I LOVE FLL and Core Values! It’s what is most important to me and why I love FLL SO much!

[@chrisbaker4475]

As a six year coach, three times to World Festival, winning our local Championships, this is well said. Great video. Team #92 the Seaford Sea Lions

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

It never gets old as mentors to see the “ah-ha” moments!

[@rubia_nvt]

It is to bad we see this only now. I write on my mums telephone. I Just won the fll core value price in the netherlands! I am team swingtime. I like the teamwork. Now i am trying the wro for the first time. That is difficult. I am 11 years old. I hope you have some tips

[@ariadnagonzalez7260]

Writing is not that easy, but, Grammarly can help! This sentence, is Grammarly correct, but it's wordy and hard to read

[@FLL-HamerLegoBreakers_888]

Amazing! You so much right! What you learn its what makes you the winner in FLL, this season I start to couch my FLL team, and I 15 years old, and you learn my how much the core values Also important for life!, you are amazing!

[@gulgunabdullayeva4529]

❤

[@legotechnic8997]

🏅🏅🏅

[@innovationhq2786]

LOL making a vid on how to win

[@ZacharyTrautwein]

It’s true! It’s definitely how you win!

[@Inventor8350]

Can you send me your email I want to send you pictures of my fll ev3 robot ,so you can give me comments and give me advice

[@raghadal_khateeb4732]

My favorite core values are serenity and love that is reflected in teamwork ... because having such values in the team drives the team to creativity, innovation and enjoyment, whatever the end result.✨✨