Welcome!

Thank you for volunteering your time and talent to coach. UTEP Engineering Department and Cosmos Foundation, Inc. together organizing Southwest FLL Qualifier.With your guidance, the children on your team are going to inspire you, and those around you, in surprising ways. If you have no technical background, don’t be nervous. Let your team do the work. You only need to ask the questions and watch them... GO!

HOW TO START A FIRST LEGO League Team for the 2010 FIRST LEGO League Season

FIRST LEGO League is very exciting program for kids 9 - 14 years old where...
“what you discover is more important than what you win”.Parents, teachers and school administrators and community group organizers form teams on their own.

Here are suggestions to help you get started.

Every team needs an adult coach over the age of 18. The coach is responsible to:

a. Register the team with FIRST LEGO League http://register4fll.com/ and order the
equipment: Body Forward Field Set-up Kit and NXT Robot. Registration is open and ends the
last week of September or when FLL runs out of registration numbers.

b. Find a meeting place: classroom, basement, community center space, etc.

c. Recruit 3 to 10 kids to be on the team. Kids slightly younger than 9 are ok. Kids must be
14 years of age on January 1, 2011 or younger to participate.

d. If possible, enlist one or two other adults to help you manage the team.

e. Have each adult involved read the coaches manual.

f. Register the team to participate in a November 13,2010 Southwest First Lego League Qualifying
Tournament http://www.hsielpaso.org/content/registration.htm

g. Facilitate weekly (or more frequent) team practices from Sept – November. The team
works on building and programming the robot to solve the mission challenges and
prepare a 5 minute Project Presentation.

h. Bring your team to a qualifying tournament in November. Tournament will be at the UTEP.

i. If your team does really well, it will be invited to the Championship Tournament in
December 2010 in Amarillo,Texas.

WHAT IS FIRST?

FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and
Technology. It is a international non-profit education foundation located in Manchester, NH.
with a mission to increase recognition of science and technology and inspire technological
careers for young people.
www.usfirst.org