Resource links – norcalfllc

NORCAL CURRENT SEASON PRESENTATIONS / TRAININGS

2025/2026 UNEARTHED Season :
- Aug 26: Coach Season Town Hall – Recording, Slides
- Oct 16: Preparing for your Tournament w/ NorCal Program Partner – Recording
  - Preparing for your Tournament Slides
  - Award and Advancement Slides
- Oct 22: Judging Q&A w/ NorCal Regional Judge Advisor – Recording
- Oct 23: Robot Game Q&A w/ NorCal Regional Head Ref – Recording

FIRST Resources

NATIONAL FIRST TEAM REGISTRATION

• FIRST Dashboard – Register – Team Registration Video, New Team Registration User Guide,
• Starting A Team – Infographic, Steps to Start a Team
• TEAM ROSTER – Overview, Print Team Roster, Team Roster Defined Roles

• Building FLL Challenge mission table

CHALLENGE DOCUMENTS/Rubrics/Build Instructions

- Challenge Specific Documents

FIRST “How To Get Started” Video

Additional Resources

NORCAL SPECIFIC
How do you find information? Most Important: Join norcalfll-announce googlegroup Playing At Learning FLL Challenge Youtube Channel Completing the “Overall California YPP Clearance Status” as required by California law AB506 Learn more social.norcalfllc.org – post scrimmages and local events, ask questions, connect w/ local coaches NorCal and FIRST LEGO League official policies
CURRICULUM / LESSON PLANS
FIRST Curriculum and materials for Educators LEGO Education Teacher Resources, Community Resources Additional Lessons created by community: FLLTutorials.com – Lessons for FIRST LEGO League ORTOP (Oregon Partner) Curriculum Resource Page

OTHER RESOURCES

YouTube: FLL Global Channel, FLL Robot Videos, Past Project Videos, FIRST Channel
FIRST LEGO League forum
Use of FIRST Brand and other copyrighted materials
FIRST Impact
- https://www.firstinspires.org/about/impact

FIRST “How To Get Started” Video
Additional Educator Resources
Family Resources – Discover More – Resources for FLL at home.

Sample Parent & Child Applications / Contracts

BUILDING LEGO ROBOTS
QLB 2.1 Robot Building Instructions by Rand Whillock Blue Angel Robotics (YouTube LEGO robot how-to Videos) EV3 R obot Design Ideas by EV3Lessons.com LEGO Engineering (programming and building tutorials by Tufts University) Mini Challenges Robot Building ver 1.3 (2004) pdf Art of LEGO Design by Fred Martin pdf BrickShelf (LEGO Build Library CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools: LDD – LEGO Digital Designer (not being updated) Studio by Bricklink – https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/
PROGRAMMING LEGO ROBOTS: EV3, NXT, and Spike PRIME
PrimeLessons.org – Lessons for SPIKE Prime Users EV3Lessons.com – Lessons for EV3 users including new Scratch-based EV3 Classroom and EV3-Lab ORTOP (Oregon FLL Partner) Spike Programming Lessons EV3 and NXT Programming Tutorials by STEMcentric EV3 Programming Tutorials by EV3Lessons.com EV3 Education Version Programming Software (preferred), or EV3 Home Edition Programming Software Robotics for Beginners by Rowan University Laboratory – designed for teachers LEGO Engineering Programming Instructions for NXT & EV3 from Carnegie Mellon
LEGO PIECES / Previous Challenge Kits (aka Field Setup Kits)
NorCal FLL – All proceeds are used to support the NorCalFLL program LEGO Education Bricklink Amazon eBay
Remote Robot Apps:
Robot Virtual Worlds – http://www.robotvirtualworlds.com/intro-to-ev3/ Virtual Robotics Toolkit – www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com/ Coder-Z – https://gocoderz.com/

NORCAL PREVIOUS SEASON PRESENTATIONS / TRAININGS

2024/2025 SUBMERGED Season :
- Oct 28: Ask Me Anything with Schilling Robotics – sign up for webinar
- Oct 22: Preparing for your Tournament w/ NorCal Program Partner – FAQ, Webinar Recording, Slides, Advancement Example
- Oct 15: Judging Q&A w/ NorCal Regional Judge Advisor Webinar Recording
- Oct 8: Robot Game Q&A w/ NorCal Regional Head Ref Webinar Recording
- Sep 11: Rookie Coach Training Webinar Recording, PDF Slides
- Aug 17: Ask An Expert with MBARI: Webinar Recording

2023/2024 MASTERPIECE Season :
- Rookie Coach Training Webinar Recording
- Rookie Coach Training Slide PDF
- Ask An Expert Webinar Recording

2022/2023 SuperPowered Season :
- Rookie Coach Training Webinar Recording
- Rookie Coach Training Slide PDF
2021/2022 Cargo Connect Season :

2020/2021 RePLAY Season Q & A Webinars:
- - FLL Challenge_ Ask an Expert Robot Game(Robot Game Video Submission Guidelines Included), Slides from Webinar
  - Nov 23 FLL- Challenge RePLAY Townhall, Townhall slides
  - Aug Q&A: Slides, Recording mp4
  - Coffee with Coaches-A Coach to Coach Mentor Event 8-15 Webinar mp4
  - RePLAY Tournament Updates
2019/2020 City Shaper Season :
- NorCal FLL Returning Coach/Mentor Training: 2019 Slides PDF, Recording mp4.
- NorCal FLL Rookie Coach/Mentor Training: 2019 Slides PDF, Recording mp4.
- NorCal FLL Preparing for 2019 Qualifier Tournament – SlidesPDF, Recording mp4 .
- NorCal FLL General Volunteer Training – Slides PDF, Recording mp4 .

Helpful Links for Coaching during Covid

Remote Coaching Brainstorming Video with Coaches from around the country.

LEGO Sanitization: https://bit.ly/2NK9VJf

Remote Core Values/Team Building Games/Quizzes/Entertainment:
- Jackbox
- Kahoot
- Quizziz
- Escape Rooms (Teachers Helping Teachers)
- Breakout EDU
- Flipgrid
- Telestrations

FIRST Guidance for COVID-19 Interruptions

• Remote Desktop for working collaboratively from a distance:

- https://remotedesktop.google.com/support/
- Zoom – built in remote control

NORCAL CURRENT SEASON PRESENTATIONS / TRAININGS

FIRST Resources

Additional Resources

NORCAL SPECIFIC

CURRICULUM / LESSON PLANS

OTHER RESOURCES

BUILDING LEGO ROBOTS

PROGRAMMING LEGO ROBOTS: EV3, NXT, and Spike PRIME

LEGO PIECES / Previous Challenge Kits (aka Field Setup Kits)

Remote Robot Apps:

NORCAL PREVIOUS SEASON PRESENTATIONS / TRAININGS

Helpful Links for Coaching during Covid