Boy oh boy. Not sure where I can begin on this one, but of all things the team won an award! Coach Ezzo and I couldn’t be more proud. I really don’t have many words I can put down in this blog, but to continue the theme of previous blogs. These ladies amaze me every …
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Practice Competition Day
From a millions questions sprouting from nerves to a determined team wanting to complete more missions, coming back from practice competition day and working for another two hours. This was the team’s first FIRST LEGO League practice event I want to thank our Sponsors Able Baker, Freeman’s Fish Market, American Jiu Jitsu, Green Roots Organic …
Core Values
Hard to think we started two months ago and what have accomplished thus far. Team shirts have been ordered. The Innovation Project rough draft is complete. We have code for multiple robot missions complete, a robot and attachments to execute the code, and we’re planning for our practice event on November 16th. Somewhere on someone’s …
Mission 7…Complete
I’ve been lax in blogging, but as I’ve said, I don’t blog. And I like my fans (or fan?) wanting more. Every week heading into our meeting, I wonder “How are we going to be ready for the Qualifier?” Then the girls amaze me and I feel great! And I feel greater today than I …
We Got One!
The MAPSO Makers FIRST LEGO League team in New Jersey set out to gain sponsors for the team.
Focus! Lessons Learned
Boy oh boy! We learn through failure right? And should celebrate it? SO this is my paragraph to celebrate MY failure this weekend in front of the team of eight and my co-coach. I built our base robot the morning of our meeting so the girls can start learning the EV3 Mindstorms code. Short story, …
Thinking…Thinking… The Ah-ha Moment!
Coaches Log 09.14.19 – All the team and all the coaches were together for the first time. Coach Ezzo and I planned the meeting, what are goals were, then we crossed our fingers and set off down the road with our team of nine 12-year-old girls. And the results were magical! Prior to the meeting, …
How Do You Create “Teamwork”?
Full disclosure. I was not at our team meeting this past Saturday, September 7. I had this crazy idea to go to the home opener of my beloved Cleveland Browns and watch them as they launched their Super Bowl run. That didn’t go as planned, and I’ll stop there. But, if you want a blog …
The First FIRST LEGO League team meeting of MAPSO #45406
Ahhh! Getting that first team meeting out of the way last night was a relief. I would have loved to make myself a drink, but not sure that’s proper with four 12 year old girls about. We called this the pre-meeting. In reality a chance for myself, and my co-coach, to figure out what we …
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Box Arrivals
Arrival of the City Shaper mat and bricks! Lots and lots of bricks! Also included are the team manuals and the engineering guides. The team manuals I suspect will be our life line in pretending to know what my co-coach and I are doing. The engineering notebooks are for the team to review plans for …
Rookie FIRST LEGO League Coach looks to help shape a city for change 