Lego League Coaching

Welcome to Lego League Coaching! I put this site together to help first time Lego League coaches to learn the ins and outs of coaching that I had to learn on my own. The site is divided up into sections related to each of the judging criteria. Here is a map of various posts to [...]

Fostering teamwork is a tricky thing. With 6-10 personalities that don’t yet know tact, conflicts inevitably arise. I’ve been fortunate that since my second year of coaching, my teams only had one big conflict. I think that has a lot to with the fact that all those teams were all girls teams. My first year, [...]

I received the new field kit for Senior Solutions a few weeks ago and now finally have time to write about it. In case you haven’t seen the mat layout, here it is: I’m struck by the fact that there are a lot of obstacles this year. Nothing is easy to get to. I’m also [...]

Minnesota held its first regional (qualifier) tournament this weekend. The state divides our kids up into two divisions: Division 1 (4-6 grade) and Division 2 (7 & 8 grade). We had 16 teams in Division 1 and 9 teams in Division 2. The scores for this early regional were about what I expected. I would [...]

Don’t forget that you’ll probably want to buy t-shirts for your team for the competition. It’s a cool “prize” for being part of the team. The kids really enjoy designing their own shirt and seeing it come to life. Over the last few years, I’ve used Cafepress for my shirts, but their web site and [...]

I finally got around to finishing the new version of my scoring app. It is now available in the Android market. I had hoped to do a little more with it, but I just didn’t have time. And won’t. But it should still work fine.       The missoin images in this app came [...]

It’s hard to believe it’s October already. Hopefully you’ve met once or twice with your team by now. If not, don’t fear, many others haven’t either. But don’t delay too long. There is a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it. One thing you need to make sure you do [...]

Teams are beginning to get started for the 2011 season, so I wanted to point rookie coaches to my The First Meeting post from last year. The post describes what you should do to get ready for your first meeting and what you should accomplish. To summarize, the first meeting should be an introductory meeting. [...]

I spent a good part of the weekend getting the Food Factor field kit put together. While last year’s Body Forward involved a lot of precision, this year’s challenge involves a lot of maneuvering. All of the Dual Locked pieces create a bit of a maze. There really isn’t a straight shot to anything (except [...]

The Food Factor Challenge gets officially released tomorrow at 12pm EDT. Are you ready?