Lego time

Well it is Lego season again and our team meetings are in full swing. The game board and the challenges have been released. Along with some changes to the scoring changes for the qualifiers. Last year they had teams focus on a single aspect of the competition so the changes were made to discourage that. A team must be well rounded and in the top 40% of the robot game to make it to the finals

The boys were a little discouraged by this news at first but once we got to business they did really well. There was a ton brainstorming about the challenges this year. A couple of attachments were even build in the meeting.
I think team work is still going to be a challenge this year. The boys have a hard time trying to merge ideas even when some of them are really similar.

The two oldest boys have a tendency to pair up and do their own thing which can be good and bad. Good because when they are focuses they get a lot done. Bad because they can exclude everyone and don't listen to their fellow team mates.

I have high hopes that the team will perform better than 1st year even if they don't make it past the qualifier.

The tasks are very different this year. Time seems to be the biggest issue with a lot of the tasks. There are loads of small pieces that have to be moved around the game board. It will be interesting to see how other teams perform the tasks.