From June 16-20 and 23-27, 2025, Team Neutrino the second annual youth summer camps for 4-5th and 6-8th graders to participate in a mock FIRST LEGO League (FLL) season. Through this camp, FLL Blastoff, we inspire kids to join the thriving FLL community in Ames and pursue STEM in the future. Members of Team Neutrino spent countless hours planning and preparing for FLL Blastoff, even through the intensive build and competition seasons. We also dedicated Outreach Camp to train camp leaders and volunteers, ensuring a well-executed camp where students learn how to build a LEGO Spike Prime robot and code it to complete missions.
This year, we chose the 2019 FLL game, CityShaper, challenging campers to complete various missions with their robot such as lowering a LEGO crane and moving LEGO buildings. The campers loved the bridge mission, which created a unique opportunity to interact with the team at the table across from them. Their robots could collide, and even fall off the bridge! This led to an effort to create the best mechanism to push robots off, or protect their robot from attack! On the final day, we ran 3-5 actual matches, giving the campers an opportunity to see their hard work in action during a mock FLL competition.
We can’t wait for the next FLL season this fall!