What Are FIRST Core Values?

Through FIRST Lego League (FLL), we have learned much more than just robotics. We have learned respecting teammates and others in the community, discovering things and tools we had not known before, solving problems with creativity and perseverance, sharing our knowledge and creations with others, valuing each other’s ideas and contributions, and having fun through the challenges.

Teamwork

No one team member can do the whole Innovation Project or robot game by herself or himself, so we have to collaborate and support each other. We the Robotmakers have worked together for 40 meetings or 150 hours this season!

We have helped each other fix many problems. For example, during the Qualifier, our robot hub broke down very seriously, and Ryan contributed his backup hub and the whole team worked together to rebuild the robot completely inside-out in just 20 minutes!

Discovery

We love picking up new knowledge and skills, and have learned to use near 20 tech tools well to aid our collaborative work. We have also become more knowledgeable about science and engineering.

Some of our favorite learnings are: programming with Python, using GitHub for collaboration and making this website, and designing and testing many LEGO attachment mechanisms.

Innovation

We have really enjoyed doing our Innovation Project, which focuses on researching how to make skiing easier for disabled people. We have learned that disabled athletes have great perseverance, and that some creative problem-solvers have come up with innovative sport equipment for disabled people.

We have learned from experts in adaptive sports, especially from Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation, who has given us detailed advice and feedback, which has helped us make a good 3D prototype.

Impact

We can make a positive difference to the community by our creative ideas such as through our Innovation Project, which aims to help disabled people enjoy skiing.

Additionally, we are sharing all of our Pybricks code and our website code openly, so that other and future FLL teams could benefit from what we have learned.

Inclusion

We have learned to value each other’s ideas and hard work, even though we don’t always agree. We know each team member’s strengths and split up the work so everybody gets a task that he or she can do well at for our team.

Even our youngest team member Ariana, who is in 2nd grade, has been assigned to do a lot of important work. For example, she has done the most in building this website, with the help of the rest of us, who originally knew more than she did about certain skills and tools.

Fun

We have been very happy with our learning journey and had many nice memories with each other this season!