Junior FIRST LEGO League
Please check back often for more information on the 2007 Power Puzzle Season!
Created in partnership with the LEGO Group, Junior FIRST LEGO League (JFLL) is geared to children aged 6 to 9 years old and utilizes a modified FIRST LEGO League (FLL) framework. Teams of up to 6 children and an adult mentor receive a mini challenge, based on the annual FLL research project. Using an open-ended LEGO building set, they will design a model depicting an aspect of this year’s "Power Puzzle" Challenge. Children will spend approximately one month exploring, investigating, designing and building a model made with LEGO bricks. In conjunction, teams create a "Show Me" poster that depicts the teams’ experience during this process, through drawings and words.
Teams celebrate and share their experience with other teams, family and friends at local events or at an official JFLL Expo. The celebration includes time to enhance the teams’ current models and show their poster, meet with friendly "Reviewers" to share their experiences, and receive recognition for their efforts.
JFLL introduces children to the concepts of teamwork and basic design skills, creating an initial interest and hands-on approach to science and technology through the familiarity and fun of LEGO building. The goal: provide an experience that will begin to transform youngsters and open their eyes to the possibilities of improving the world around them through acknowledgement, thought, planning and technology.
The JFLL experience also is a way of engaging younger siblings and friends of FLL team members in a similar team situation with goals. By cultivating their interest in and experience with this kind of hands-on, fun teamwork, they are likely to then transition to the FLL program, as they get older.
The 2006 JFLL program registration was from August 1, 2006 – October 13, 2006. We are currently formatting the program for 2007. If you have any suggestions or would like to comment on something you liked or disliked about JFLL this season, please email jfllsupport@usfirst.org.
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