Back in the spring, I held an information meeting for families who were interested in FLL after hearing about our experiences. Out of that, three new teams of homeschoolers have formed, and our team has offered to mentor them and help out in whatever ways we can. On this day, one of the other families came over to hang out and try out the new NXT robot kits. So this afternoon was a gathering of three kids from our team, two kids from her team, and a neighbour's son who happened into the chaos.
We had two of the NXT robots at this get-together, so the kids spent time building with them, doing some on-brick programming, and playing with the sensors. The sound and ultrasonic sensors have a definite "cool" factor: there was lots of hand-waving and shouting to make the robot respond.
On our team, all three of our families have decided to purchase the NXT kit. This means that all the kids have the opportunity to be working on the robot at home between meetings. Somehow it seems to give the kids more confidence to be using the newest kit, but it also means that we have another steep learning curve in front of us, as not everything we learned about the RCX will be transferable to this new design.
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