In this update, you will find:
- REGISTRATION For Oregon Teams is CLOSED! - What to do if you missed the boat.
- LOTS of Opportunities for FIRST LEGO League Teams!
- Please Respect Our Oregon Water Experts
- Share your Project at OMSI
- Table Available in Hillsboro
- Team Goals for October
- Getting Everything You Need From Team Parents for the Roster part 1
Oregon Update: 7
Welcome to the official FIRST LEGO League Oregon Update. All Oregon FIRST LEGO League Coaches are automatically added to this list weekly! In each update, which you can read in an email or on our blog (cross-posted on both G+ and Facebook), you will find out what is happening in Oregon, the important things from Headquarters in NH, and tips to keep your team on track. This blog will be posted nearly weekly and all posts are archived. All official updates this season will be numbered HD# If you've missed an update, please read the archive to catch up!
National Registration for Oregon's Competitive FIRST LEGO League Season is NOW CLOSED. As is tournament registration for Oregon Qualifying Tournaments. Yay! This means that all tournament requests are now with our scheduling volunteers. Tournament assignments will be posted no later than November 3, 2017. Assignments will be posted on our Oregon Teams Google Sheet.
If you haven't paid for your Qualifying Tournament please do that before October 31, 2017. Payment options are found here.
What to do if you missed the boat.
Still wanting to participate, but you missed out on registration? CALL LORIDEE (503) 486-7622 ext 2 - leave a message it will be forwarded to my email! The only way you can be added at this point is to get special access from Loridee, sorry.
What can you do instead? Bring your team to a local tournament! Even if you can't compete this year, please bring your team to see the solutions other teams are coming up with. This is a tremendous learning opportunity for your team. Have adults? Have them sign up to volunteer at the event! All events love new volunteers. Judging and other roles really let the adults who are just learning about FIRST LEGO League see the behind-the-scenes of a tournament.
If you haven't paid for your Qualifying Tournament please do that before October 31, 2017. Payment options are found here.
What to do if you missed the boat.
What can you do instead? Bring your team to a local tournament! Even if you can't compete this year, please bring your team to see the solutions other teams are coming up with. This is a tremendous learning opportunity for your team. Have adults? Have them sign up to volunteer at the event! All events love new volunteers. Judging and other roles really let the adults who are just learning about FIRST LEGO League see the behind-the-scenes of a tournament.
2) LOTS of Opportunities for FIRST LEGO League Teams!
There are many upcoming events to which FIRST LEGO League teams are being invited to. Please look through this list and see if your team is interested and able to attend any of them!
Intel Water Sustainability Information Session - NEW TIME!!!!
Intel Jones Farm Conference Center, Monday, October 16 from 6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Here is Monday's Agenda:
Tech Talk by FIRST Tech Challenge Team Total Chaos
Puppet Labs, 308 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, Saturday, October 21, 10 AM - 1 PM
This is a technology-focused talk about how technology is changing the world.
Registration is required at: http://bit.ly/2wFGDjY
More information can be found on this PDF flier sent by the team.
PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science Open House
Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, 1930 SW 4th Ave Portland, Thursday, October 19, 4 PM - 7 PM
This is an opportunity to see what the engineering department at Portland State University has to offer. There will be speakers presenting on their current projects as well as facility tours.
To see the agenda and RSVP please use this link
3) Please Respect Our Oregon Water Experts
Local water services are starting to be overwhelmed with the requests for tours. Please be respectful if they can not facilitate your team. If your team can coordinate with other teams this is a better way to get make the most of everyone's time.
Because Intel is hosting the above-listed information night, this is how they have asked ALL teams to connect with their experts.
Clean Water Services in Washington County is booked for the next two full weeks. They may be able to offer tours again in November. Please respect this. They were overwhelmed by our teams.
Tualatin Valley Water District is unable to give tours, but they love getting your questions!
Intel Water Sustainability Information Session - NEW TIME!!!!
Intel Jones Farm Conference Center, Monday, October 16 from 6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Here is Monday's Agenda:
Topic
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Discussion Points
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Welcome students
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UPW
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· Semiconductors
· How semiconductors use water and why they need super clean water
· How Intel gets its water
· How Intel makes it clean
· Interactive Q&A
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Wastewater
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· What does Intel do to ensure water is clean after use
· Overview of wastewater treatment systems
· Screenshot from Cimplicity
· Where does water go after it leaves Intel
· Interactive Q&A
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Stormwater
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· What is stormwater and why it is important
· Simplified water cycle
· Intel surface water flows
· Intel stormwater going to the Tualatin (salmon habitat and other ecosystemic functions)
· Interactive Q&A
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Wetlands
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· Story about water and wetlands
· Interactive Q&A
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Water Sustainability
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· Intro to water sustainability
· Examples of how companies, like Intel, are recycling and reducing water
· Water challenges
· Interactive Q&A
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There is no RSVP required. Please just bring as much of your team as you can!
Don't know your way around the Intel Jones Farm Campus? Here is a Map
Tech Talk by FIRST Tech Challenge Team Total Chaos
Puppet Labs, 308 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, Saturday, October 21, 10 AM - 1 PM
This is a technology-focused talk about how technology is changing the world.
Registration is required at: http://bit.ly/2wFGDjY
More information can be found on this PDF flier sent by the team.
PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science Open House
Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, 1930 SW 4th Ave Portland, Thursday, October 19, 4 PM - 7 PM
This is an opportunity to see what the engineering department at Portland State University has to offer. There will be speakers presenting on their current projects as well as facility tours.
To see the agenda and RSVP please use this link
3) Please Respect Our Oregon Water Experts
Local water services are starting to be overwhelmed with the requests for tours. Please be respectful if they can not facilitate your team. If your team can coordinate with other teams this is a better way to get make the most of everyone's time.
Because Intel is hosting the above-listed information night, this is how they have asked ALL teams to connect with their experts.
Clean Water Services in Washington County is booked for the next two full weeks. They may be able to offer tours again in November. Please respect this. They were overwhelmed by our teams.
Tualatin Valley Water District is unable to give tours, but they love getting your questions!
4) Share Your Project at OMSI
FIRST LEGO League teams are once again invited to share their FIRST LEGO League Project Solutions with the visitors of OMSI. This year we will be in just outside of the Life Lab!
Each team will check in at the information desk in OMSI. Your team and 2 adult coaches will be escorted to the Life Lab where they will have a table to set up their project materials. Teams may bring their robot to share, but the focus of this time is to share your solution to HYDRO DYNAMICS and to share the FIRST LEGO League program. Note: The Life Lab is not in the free part of the museum. Any support crew (parents and siblings) who wants to join the team will need to pay admission.
- Sign up for a one-hour time slot on October 28 - you will need to move the calendar to the 28th.
- Sign up for a one-hour time slot on November 11 - you will need to move the calendar to the 11th
Each team will check in at the information desk in OMSI. Your team and 2 adult coaches will be escorted to the Life Lab where they will have a table to set up their project materials. Teams may bring their robot to share, but the focus of this time is to share your solution to HYDRO DYNAMICS and to share the FIRST LEGO League program. Note: The Life Lab is not in the free part of the museum. Any support crew (parents and siblings) who wants to join the team will need to pay admission.
5) Table Available in Hillsboro
A FIRST LEGO League table needs a new home in Hillsboro. If your team needs a table to use for practicing. Please contact Ed (contact only in the email version of this announcement)
6) Team Goals for October
Welcome to October! So much is going to happen going forward from here. Here are this month's goals for your team. Remember! You want your goals done by the end of the month.
- Make sure your information is spelled correctly on the Oregon Team Status Page.
- Bookmark the Oregon Hot Topics Page.
- Catch up on the key points of blogs you may have missed (and September's Goals)
- Your team should have a clearly defined problem in the Human Water Cycle that meets the restrictions in the HYDRO DYNAMICS Challenge Guide AND the Official Updates
- Your team should know at least 3 existing solutions that address the problem they have identified and know WHY they do not meet all the needs to solve the problem. (why does the problem still exist?)
- Your team should have a prototype idea that they can start to share (maybe at OMSI)
- You should identify an expert the Project idea can be shared with (even if you don't share until November).
- Your team should build the HYDRO DYNAMICS Challenge Set and put it on the table using the Field Set Up Guide
- Your team should decide what mission they will attempt first, why, and what their robot will need to complete that mission. If your team is breaking into subgroups, each subgroup should complete this task and the next two items.
- The team should build a prototype attachment for their robot (and design any robot changes needed to make it work).
- The team should write a basic program to complete the mission. This program should be accurate 50% of the time.
- Each team member should be able to give a personal example of Gracious Professionalism
- The team should be able to identify 3 ways they use the FIRST Core Values in team meetings.
- Coaches should decide if the team is going to have parents complete the online roster or use the paper forms.
- Coaches should verify they have no outstanding tasks in the FIRST system and resolve those, by logging in to www.firstinspires.org and looking at the outstanding tasks on their DASHBOARD.
- See where your team's tournament assignment is when they are posted on November 3rd!
7) Getting Everything You Need From Team Parents for the Roster part 1
A team Roster is required for EVERY team in FIRST LEGO League. There are two ways you as a coach can get these put together, but both options require the team parents to do something.
If you are going to use the ONLINE system through the Dashboard for your parents to sign this year's consent form and enroll their child to your team here is the written instructions from FIRST. YIKES! That's a bigger wall of texts than a FIRST LEGO Leauge Oregon Update! Here is a simplified text version to see if this is what you want to do. I will be posting a PDF graphic walkthrough next week (it just didn't make the newsletter)
If you are going to use the ONLINE system through the Dashboard for your parents to sign this year's consent form and enroll their child to your team here is the written instructions from FIRST. YIKES! That's a bigger wall of texts than a FIRST LEGO Leauge Oregon Update! Here is a simplified text version to see if this is what you want to do. I will be posting a PDF graphic walkthrough next week (it just didn't make the newsletter)
- Coaches - you must have NO OUTSTANDING TASKS on your Dashboard before you can do ANYTHING with your roster.
- Coaches - go to your DASHBOARD on www.firstinspires.org
- Select your team, Select Contact Options -> Manage Contacts
- Scroll to the bottom - this is where you will work with your roster.
- Here you get to make a choice: Will your collect paper consent forms or will you have your parents submit their child to the roster through the FIRST system.
- If you are using paper consent forms please print them from here and give them to the parents to complete and return. You will manually add team member names to the roster when you print it in November. DONE, you can stop reading here.
- If you are using the FIRST system, please continue reading.
- You will need to invite each PARENT by their email address. DO NOT use a student's email address!
- The parents will need to create an account at www.firstinspires.org
- They will need to go to the Student tab on their Dashboard
- They will need to complete a profile for each child they have in the program
- When they MUST remember to sign the consent form for EACH child
- They must have the team number so they can invite the student to the correct team.
- Once a parent has requested access to the team the coaches will be able to accept the students to the team roster. You will also be able to let parents know if they did not sign the Consent Form for a child.
Totally lost? Please look for the visual walkthrough's next week. Thank you go Andrew Cronk, coach of Whitford Middle School's FIRST LEGO League teams, who let me come use his account to learn how to do all of this and capture screenshots for the walkthrough I'm building for part 2.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Best Wishes,
Loridee
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