In this SPECIAL EDITION update, we will feature all of the online documentation and tools you will need to be able to best support your team through the BOOMTOWN BUILD season. Items are listed in order of how important I feel they are for your team, starting at the top.
- How to Register Your Team
- Inspire Model Building Instructions
- Oregon Team Financial Support - Comming Soon!
- Oregon Specific Information, Including Expos
- FIRST LEGO League Jr: Discovery Interest Form
- BOOMTOWN BUILD Kickoff Video
- Inspire Model Video
- BOOMTOWN BUILD Multimedia Connections
- BOOMTOWN BUILD Challenge Cartoon
- Getting Started with FIRST LEGO League Jr Videos
Welcome to BOOMTOWN BUILD! All coaches in Oregon are automatically added to this mailing list. Teams in neighboring communities are welcome to participate in Oregon Expos provided there is space. If you have missed an email from Oregon you may read the archive on our blog, or see the important links on our website. Official updates and program materials can be found on the FIRST LEGO League Jr Challenge website.
1) How to Register Your Team
The very beginning of any FIRST LEGO League Jr team starts with two adults completing the National Registration with FIRST. When you are ready to start your team you can register for the BOOMTOWN BUILD season any time between now and April. ORTOP recommends that you register and begin meetings at least 6 weeks prior to the expo your team wishes to attend.To register go to www.firstinspires.org.
For an individual team:
- Select Programs -> FIRST LEGO League Jr -> Cost & Registration from the top menu bar
- Select Register
- Complete a profile if needed
- If you already have a team you will need to select CREATE NEW TEAM(S) from the Dashboard
- Follow all of the prompts
- When you check out there is a link where you can add a WeDo 2.0 kit for slightly less than the current cost on legoeducation.com, your team only needs one and will reuse it each year.
For a class pack for 30 team members in 7 teams (still eligible to participate in Oregon expos):
- Select Community -> Educators from the top menu bar
- Select CLASS PACK EXPERIENCE
- Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and select Let's Go!
- Follow all of the directions from this point forward.
or
- Log in or create an account by using the prompt in the upper right-hand corner
- From your Dashboard select MY CLASS/SCHOOL PACK ACCOUNT on the far right of the Dashboard bar
- Select CREATE NEW ACCOUNT and follow all the prompts
- Select Community -> Educators from the top menu bar
- Select CLASS PACK EXPERIENCE
- Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and select Let's Go!
- Follow all of the directions from this point forward.
or
- Log in or create an account by using the prompt in the upper right-hand corner
- From your Dashboard select MY CLASS/SCHOOL PACK ACCOUNT on the far right of the Dashboard bar
- Select CREATE NEW ACCOUNT and follow all the prompts
FIRST LEGO League Jr Discovery is currently only available as a class pack, don't have 30 kids, scroll down to item 5 to see our Oregon prototype solution!
2) Inspire Model Building Instructions
Once your Inspire Set arrives, the team will want to start their first build. This year that is building the crane/elevator. Your build instructions can be downloaded here! This build is done as part of meetings 2 and 4 in the Team Meeting Guide.
3) Oregon Team Financial Support - Comming Soon!
I am happy to announce that our sponsors are starting to see the positive effects of introduction to STEM at younger ages. That means we will be able to offer a limited amount of team financial support. Make sure you look over the support requirements BEFORE you register your FIRST LEGO League team. Some funding is specifically for public SCHOOLS!
Link coming soon - still working on the application!
4) Oregon Specific Information, Including Expos
Everything Oregon will be posted on the FIRST LEGO League Jr Oregon Hot Topics page and on our Facebook page. When we confirm dates and venues for the FIRST LEGO League Jr expos they will be added to these pages, the FIRST system and the ORTOP Calendar. Information sessions will also be added to the Hot Topics page, Facebook, and the ORTOP Calendar as they are scheduled.
Sadly, it looks like we will not be at OMSI this year, as their spring exhibit will require the use of the Auditorium we typically use. We are looking at some different and interesting locations to fill that void in the Portland metro area. We are also working on expos in Astoria, Bend, Hood River, LaGrande/Pendleton, McMinnville, Ontario, Prineville, and Roseburg. Oregon teams are also often invited to the April expo in Longview, Washington.
5) FIRST LEGO League Jr: Discovery Interest Form
Since the new FIRST LEGO League Jr: Discovery for Pre-K through 1st-grade engineers is only available as a class pack, I have put together a form to help connect groups to share a class pack. Your team will still need their own LEGO STEAM PARK set from LEGO Education; however, each team will receive a Team Meeting Guide and 4 Engineering Notebooks for the team members. FIRST LEGO League Jr: Discovery teams may only have 4 members each. Groups of interested teams will be placed into a local-as-possible cohort. Your cohort will need to get together for the final activity. I am happy to help facilitate the final activity for teams.
To join the list to be placed in a Cohort please use this link.
To join the list to be placed in a Cohort please use this link.
You may also use the form if one 30-member class pack is too few but two packs for 60-members is too many.
6)BOOMTOWN BUILD Kickoff Video
The kickoff video isn't required for anything, but it is fun and it may get your team thinking about the theme. There are subtitles and it's a great way to start off the season. Be warned it does have an ad play before hosted by youtube, some coaches have reported the youtube selected ad was not appropriate.
7) Inspire Model Video
Another fun video. This video has no words, it just shows how the crane and elevator work by hand and with the WeDo 2.0. Not required, but it can be helpful if your team doesn't understand what to do.8) BOOMTOWN BUILD Multimedia Connections
This another fun tool that is completely optional. I haven't had the chance to go through this material, but there is a resource to correspond with most if not all of the sessions in the team meeting guide. If you are looking for a video to be part of your meeting each time, these may help. Don't let them hinder an interest the team has developed, remember the book script is optional, learning together and building together is the key!
9) BOOMTOWN BUILD Challenge Cartoon
This is a fun 4-panel cartoon to get the team excited about the year!
10)Getting Started with FIRST LEGO League Jr Videos
If you really aren't sure where to begin, or you are trying to convince another parent it's easier if they start their own team rather than have a team of 6 kids, this is the place to start. These are great little videos, but if you've got it under control with everything else, there isn't much new here.
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