Welcome! Overview

Use the sessions in this Engineering Notebook as Be sure to record what you learn and reflect on a guide for your team’s journey through the FIRST® how your team collaborated to achieve your goals. FORWARDSM season and CARGO CONNECTSM Showcase your team’s amazing work on your robot, CORE VALUES Your team will: challenge. Use the Core Values and the engineering Innovation Project, and Core Values at your event FIRST ® Core Values will be • Apply teamwork and discovery to explore the challenge. design process throughout your team journey. and judging session. Remember, what your team evaluated during the Robot Game Have lots of fun as you develop new skills and work discovers is more important than what you win. • Innovate with new ideas about your robot and project. matches and during the Innovation together. This notebook is a great resource to share Check out the Career Connections pages at the end Project and Robot Design • Show how your team and your solutions will have an at your judging event, but it isn’t required. of this guide for real-life examples of transportation presentations. impact and be inclusive! jobs! • Celebrate by having fun in everything you do!

FIRST® Core Values ROBOT DESIGN Your team will: Your team will prepare a short • Identify your mission strategy. We embraced our explanation on your Robot Design, • Design your robot and programs using your work plan. We found we were We applied what differences and programs, and strategy. stronger when we we learned to • Create your robot and coding solution to match your ensured we all felt worked together. improve our world. mission strategy. welcomed. • Iterate and test your robot and programs. • Communicate your Robot Design process, your programs, and your robot solution.

ROBOT GAME Your team will: Your team will have three • Build the mission models and follow the field setup to put 2.5-minute matches to complete the models on the mat. as many missions as possible. • Review the missions and rules. • Design and build a robot. • Explore building and coding skills while practicing with your robot on the mat. We enjoyed and We used creativity We explored new • Compete at an event! celebrated what and persistence to skills and ideas. we did! solve problems.

INNOVATION Your team will: PROJECT • Identify and research a problem to solve. Your team will prepare a 5-minute • Design a solution to the problem that helps others or your community. Gracious Professionalism ® is a way of doing things during Robot Game matches. The team can presentation to explain your that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the demonstrate Coopertition ® by showing that learning Innovation Project. • Create a model or prototype of your solution. value of others, and respects individuals and the is more important than winning and they can help • Share your ideas, collect feedback, and iterate on your community. We express our Core Values through others even as they compete. solution. Gracious Professionalism, and this will be evaluated • Communicate your solution at an event.

4 Engineering Notebook I Getting Started Robot Design and Robot Game Team Roles

This year’s CARGO CONNECTSM around the field. Your robot must Here are sample roles your team can use during the Challenge experience. The goal is to build your team challenge is for your robot to activate mission models that represent sessions. Everyone on the team should experience to be confident and capable in all aspects ofFIRST deliver cargo to different forms of transportation safety, efficiency, each role throughout their FIRST ® LEGO® League LEGO League Challenge. transportation or target locations connection, and access.

Design and create a robot that will complete missions Creative Designer Project Manager in the Robot Game. Your innovative Robot Design, Creates innovative clear mission strategy, and functional programs are designs for Focuses on time START management and Communicator key in the CARGO CONNECTSM challenge. solutions to be Researchers discussed with the preparing for the Concentrates Team Captain team. Investigate ideas event. on how to and find relevant Shares team communicate Build your mission models Compete in Robot Game research from the team’s work. progress with different sources to and identify your mission matches. facilitator. Ensures Writes scripts inform the team’s and prepares strategy. Your robot starts in the launch area, session tasks are decision-making. completed. presentations. Each mission and model also tries missions in the order chosen by provides inspiration for possible the team, and then returns anywhere solutions to your Innovation Project. into Home. Your team can modify The missions fit into four categories: your robot when it is in Home before safety, efficiency, access, and launching it again. Your team will connections. play multiple matches, but only the highest score matters. Design and create your autonomous robot and Communicate your Robot programs. Design solution at judging. Create a work plan for your Robot Prepare a short explanation that Design. Build a robot and its clearly explains the process your attachments using LEGO® Education team used to create your robot and SPIKE™ Prime or any LEGO® programs and how they work. Make MINDSTORMS® set. Code your sure your whole team is involved. robot to autonomously complete a series of missions in a 2.5-minute Robot Game to score points.

Test and iterate on your robot solution to complete missions. Iterate on your Robot Design and programs with continual testing and improvements. Coders Builders Material Manager Mission Strategist Operate the device Assemble the and creates the Gathers materials LEGO mission Analyzes the Robot programs in the app. needed for session models following Game Rulebook and and returns the building leads team strategy materials. instructions and discussions on build your robot. which missions to attempt.

9 to Solve t ays he W Ch y a if lle Team t n Innovation Project n g e e d Journey I Using Engineering Design Everyone depends on the How can you improve the Process transportation of goods for their daily transportation of products? Identify needs. As more demands are placed a specific problem within this theme on the transportation systems, we will that you want to solve. Then, create continue to face challenges unless or improve a piece of equipment, we find new ways, or improve existing a technology, or a method of ways, to transport products from place transportation to solve your specific Innova Your to place. problem. our tio ign Rob Y n P es o n r D t ig o s je e c t D It starts here, with your critical thinking and nd Use C r a ore imagination leading the way to better transportation e V ov a c lu journeys for products. Your ideas could help change s e i s START your community* – and even the world – in this D CARGO CONNECTSM challenge.

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