Do you have an FLL team you’d like Montclair Robotics to mentor?
Current FLL Mentoring
As of 2024, we are working with 3 First Lego League Challenge teams in Montclair:
- Buzz Bots – Team 11768 (Buzz Aldrin Middle School)
- CoBots – Team 3607 (Montclair Cooperative School)
- TORN – Team 38235 (Renaissance Middle School).
By assisting these teams during both the season and offseason period, we have been able to help them grow and improve! All three of these teams have participated in competitions at the regional level, and this year, TORN and the Buzz Bots qualified for the state competition! Good luck!
How Many FLL Teams are there in Montclair?
There are a variety of FIRST Lego League Challenge teams in Montclair! All three of our public middle schools have FLL teams (Glenfield Middle School, Buzz Aldrin Middle School, and Renaissance Middle School)! There are also FLL programs at other schools in Montclair like the Montclair Cooperative School and Montclair Kimberly Academy’s Middle School.
What is FLL?
FIRST® LEGO® League guides youth through STEM learning and exploration at an early age. From Discover, to Explore, and then to Challenge, students will understand the basics of STEM and apply their skills in an exciting competition while building habits of learning, confidence, and teamwork skills along the way.
FLL students create and build innovative solutions using EV3 robots. These robots can then be coded to navigate a themed map (changes every season) and complete as many obstacles as they can. Similar to FRC, there are multiple levels of competition, where the winners will advance to the next level. First and foremost, however, FLL is about teamwork and innovation.
This is represented in their core values:
- Discovery
- Innovation
- Impact
- Inclusion
- Teamwork
- Fun
as well as the FIRST philosophies of Gracious Professionalism® and Coopertition®!
Many of Montclair Robotics’ members participated in FLL when they were in middle school.
Read more on the First Lego League website: https://www.firstlegoleague.org/