Los Angeles Region FIRST® LEGO® League (LAR FLL)
Team Resources
Recommended Books
James Floyd Kelly, Jonathan Daudelin. FIRST LEGO League: The Unofficial Guide. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2008.
Dave Astolfo, Mario Ferrari, Giulio Ferrari. Building Robots with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. Burlington MA: Syngress Publishing, 2007.
David J. Perdue. The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor’s Guide. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2008.
James Floyd Kelly. LEGO Mindstorms NXT-G Programming Guide, 2nd ed. Berkeley CA: Apress, 2010.
Coach Training Slides
These are the slides presented by FLL Partner LeRoy Nelson and LOL Comets coach Tony Ayad at Coach Training Workshops:
FLL Introduction and Basic NXT-G Programming for Coaches PDF: 25 slides, 13 pages, 0.3 MB
FLL Advanced NXT-G Programming for Coaches PDF: 48 slides, 48 pages, 2.2 MB
For a schedule of Coach Training Workshops, see Events.
Links
FLL Introduction and Basic NXT-G Programming for Coaches PDF: 25 slides, 13 pages, 0.3 MB
FLL Advanced NXT-G Programming for Coaches PDF: 48 slides, 48 pages, 2.2 MB
For a schedule of Coach Training Workshops, see Events.
FLL Team Resources: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/what-is-fll/twocol.aspx?id=251
TechBrick Robotics challenge worksheets and resources: http://www.techbrick.com
Robot Building Examples: http://www.nxtprograms.com and http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/fll/content.aspx?id=792
Programming Tutorials: http://www.catlin.edu/msrobotics/downloads or http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/
Other programming resources: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/fll/content.aspx?id=790
NXT Building Hints - Constructopedia: http://legoengineering.com/library/doc_details/150-nxt-constructopedia-beta-21.html
LEGO Engineering LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Software Knowledgebase:
http://www.legoengineering.com/knowledgemanager/categories/LEGO+MINDSTORMS+NXT-G+Software/
LEGO Engineering building and programming resources for teachers: http://legoengineering.com/building-programming.html
Robotics Curriculum from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Academy:
http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/content/lego/curriculum/index.htm
Order LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Educational sets, parts and software:
http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/categories/products/middle-school/lego-mindstorms-education
Order spare LEGO parts: http://www.bricklink.com
The NXT STEP - LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Blog: http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/
See youtube FLL videos: youtube FLL search
Los Angeles Robotics: http://larobotics.org
Southern California Regional Robotics Forum: http://larobotics.org/SCRRF.html
LEGOLAND California FLL: http://www.legoland.com/groups/education/fll.htm
California FLL: http://cafll.org
United States FLL: http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll/
International FLL: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/
FIRST Robotics: http://usfirst.org
Forms for Tournaments
Team Google Groups
For announcements and discussion group, please visit
LA Region FLL Team Google Group
Coach Training Workshops and Robotics Summer Camps
See the Events Page for the current season.