Plan Calendar : The calendar is subject to change based on team needs, competition schedules, and other factors. We will communicate any updates as early as possible.
AUGUST – KICKOFF & FOUNDATIONS
✅ Register team on FIRST site
✅ Order challenge set & robot kit (SPIKE Prime)
✅ Recruit team members (6–10 students)
✅ Host team/parent orientation
✅ Begin weekly meetings (1–2 per week)
✅ Introduce FLL Core Values & theme: “Unearthed”
✅ Team-building activities
✅ Review the challenge: robot game + innovation project
✅ Start brainstorming innovation project ideas
SEPTEMBER – RESEARCH & ROBOT START
🔬 Deep dive into “Unearthed” theme (research phase)
💡 Finalize innovation project topic
🤖 Begin designing & programming robot
🎯 Identify and assign key robot missions
🧠 Assign project tasks (researchers, builders, programmers)
📄 Start logging ideas in engineering notebook
📦 Receive and build challenge missions from set
OCTOBER – BUILD, TEST, PRESENT
🔁 Refine robot design and test missions
🗣️ Begin practicing innovation project presentations
🎥 Practice explaining robot code & design
🧩 Review and reflect on Core Values regularly
🧪 Test multiple robot attachments & programs
🧾 Draft Robot Design Executive Summary (RDES)
🎤 Prepare for mock judging sessions
🛠️ Troubleshoot robot reliability
NOVEMBER – POLISH & COMPETE
🔁 Refine and finalize robot programs
✅ Finalize and polish innovation project
🎭 Full mock presentation (project, robot, and Core Values)
🧘 Practice teamwork and interview readiness
🏆 Attend Qualifier Event
🎉 Celebrate participation, reflect, and regroup if advancing
DECEMBER+ (IF ADVANCING) – PREP FOR NEXT LEVEL🧠 Debrief after qualifier
⚙️ Upgrade robot or refine project based on feedback
🗓️ Schedule extra practices for next competition (regional/state)