January 28, 2023
Georgia Super-Regionals! Trickum, Georgia

The team was ready to take on the next step of the tournament season. The kids felt confident with improvements to the innovation project and probably 100s of launch practices, dozens of presentation walkthroughs as a team, and more presentation practices at home.

Things went very well; with 305 points in the robot game, the team scored a tied first place with another team and won one of the two highest score trophies. 

As expected - judging during the super-regionals was tougher, and the innovation project had a few weak spots pointed out by the judges. 

But the good news was that the team was among the few that qualified for the remaining spots at the State Competition. Since the state competition was only two weeks out, the Georgia FLL head judge came out for the competition to select teams after the completion of the competition instead of waiting for a couple of days until the announcement.

A lot of good feedback during the session.

Robot Design Feedback

Identify

• 4 out of 4 points for Strategy

• 3 out of 4 points for Design 

Design

• 4 out of 4 points for plan

• 4 out of 4 points for explanation

Create

• 3 out of 4 points for explanation of robot and attachments

• 3 out of 4 points for explanation of code

Iterate

• 3 out of 4 points for testing and code

• 3 out of 4 points for improvements

Communicate

• 3 out of 4 points for the explanation of the design process

• 3 out of 4 points for evidence all team members were involved.

Innovation Project Feedback

Identify

• 3 out of 4 points for a clear definition of the problem

• 3 out of 4 points for detailed research

Design

• 1 out of 4 points for the inclusive selection process (we worked on that afterward, team never outlined how the problem was identified during the sessions)

• 2 out of 4 points for evidence of an effective plan

Create

• 2 out of 4 points - for the idea (the team was aware that the innovation project is very basic but opted for something practical)

• 3 out of 4 points - for detailed model/drawing that helps share the solution

Iterate

• 2 out of 4 points for sharing the solution with users or professionals (the team was disappointed with that score, since the project was shared with a school board member with great feedback and with a GEFA - a Georgia Government Agency)

• 1 out of 4 points for minimal evidence of improvement (team agreed that there was not much incorporation of the feedback that was received. The kids were assigned to implement improvements prior to the next competition)

Communicate

• 2 out of 4 points - partially engaging only (despite much practice, we were aware that the kids still need to get better)

• 3 out of 4 points - Solution and impact on others is clear

Core Value Feedback

• Discovery - 3 out of 4

• Innovation - 2 out of 4

• Impact - 3 out of 4

• Inclusion - 2 out of 4

• Teamwork - 2 out of 4

• Fun - 3 out of 4