Junior FIRST LEGO League
Junior FIRST LEGO League (JFLL) is for the youngest scientists. Teams are comprised of up to six kids, aged 6 to 9 years old, an adult coach, mentors, and any other volunteers who want to help! There are JFLL teams from all over the United States and in some Canadian provinces.
The Jr.FLL Challenge is a two-part activity based on the same real-world topic as the FLL Challenge. Details of challenge are released in Sept. The kids complete a project and build models with LEGO. The kids can choose the topic of the project within the challenge theme. Then they create some type of LEGO model that uses a motor and other moving parts.
The year my son was on a JFLL team, the challenge theme was nanotechnology. His team decided to focus on snakes. For their LEGO project, they had to show the same item at different scales. They showed a snake in a tree. The head of a snake that used a motor so the snake could have venom (LEGO bricks) coming out of it’s mouth, and the final part of the model showed what a venom molecule would look like. For their field trip, they had a guest who brought her pet snakes! The boys had a great time!
The teams can meet as often as they wish, but an average would be 4 two hour meetings and a field trip. Often the kids have lots of fun together and want to get together each week and just build LEGO.
JFLL teams display their projects at the FIRST LEGO League tournament that is held in Victoria around the end of November. In 2008, there were 2-3 JFLL teams of homelearners.
All teams pay a registration fee in September and then a tournament fee if they choose to participate in a local tournament. Teams can choose to order a special JFLL kit, or work with their own LEGO. The kit is not required.
JFLL is definitely about the kids having fun with science. It is not a competition and no group is declared the winner. It is all about the kids having fun, working together, and getting a chance to show what they’ve been doing.
You can find out more about JFLL here.
Junior FIRST LEGO League (JFLL) is for the youngest scientists. Teams are comprised of up to six kids, aged 6 to 9 years old, an adult coach, mentors, and any other volunteers who want to help! There are JFLL teams from all over the United States and in some Canadian provinces.
The Jr.FLL Challenge is a two-part activity based on the same real-world topic as the FLL Challenge. Details of challenge are released in Sept. The kids complete a project and build models with LEGO. The kids can choose the topic of the project within the challenge theme. Then they create some type of LEGO model that uses a motor and other moving parts.
The year my son was on a JFLL team, the challenge theme was nanotechnology. His team decided to focus on snakes. For their LEGO project, they had to show the same item at different scales. They showed a snake in a tree. The head of a snake that used a motor so the snake could have venom (LEGO bricks) coming out of it’s mouth, and the final part of the model showed what a venom molecule would look like. For their field trip, they had a guest who brought her pet snakes! The boys had a great time!
The teams can meet as often as they wish, but an average would be 4 two hour meetings and a field trip. Often the kids have lots of fun together and want to get together each week and just build LEGO.
JFLL teams display their projects at the FIRST LEGO League tournament that is held in Victoria around the end of November. In 2008, there were 2-3 JFLL teams of homelearners.
All teams pay a registration fee in September and then a tournament fee if they choose to participate in a local tournament. Teams can choose to order a special JFLL kit, or work with their own LEGO. The kit is not required.
JFLL is definitely about the kids having fun with science. It is not a competition and no group is declared the winner. It is all about the kids having fun, working together, and getting a chance to show what they’ve been doing.
You can find out more about JFLL here.