Printing the 2x3 Season-independent Mat

One of the best ways for team members to learn how to program a LEGO robot is to have simple challenges with guidance on how you might solve those challenges. With this in mind, ORTOP has developed a set of simple lessons that feature such challenges that are backed up by short videos that give hints on how to solve the challenges. If you have questions about these challenges or the associated lessons, please drop a note to fll-questions@ortop.org.

Lesson Plans that Use Small Season-independent Mat

1. Building mission elements. Discuss main mission: Rescuing Yellow the Cat

2. Review of driving a robot and turning

3. Circles, degrees, gyro sensor

4. Designing, building, programming an attachment

5. Using a color sensor to control the start of a turn. Concepts: Light, color, light reflection, light sensor

6. Intermediate use of the gyro sensor. More on circles, degrees, gyro sensor

7. Line Following. Feedback, iteration, documenting

8. Measuring Distance. Degrees, converting linear dimensions to angular dimensions

Most of the lessons above assume you have a 2x3 foot mat that is not associated with any of the regular FIRST LEGO League Challenge seasons. You can have the mat printed as a poster at most office printing stores like FedEx, Office Depot, Office Max or Staples. You can either upload the file via their website and order a 2x3 poster and pick it up when it is ready. Alternatively, you may be able to put the file on a USB drive and take it to the store, but call ahead for details.

Low-resolution thumbnail version of actual mat; don't use this file to print the 2x3 poster.

Click here for a high-resolution file that you can download to your computer and then upload to a printer's website.

Building the Mission Elements for the Season-independent Mat