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Milestones and Goals

Make a plan for what you are going to get done. We set up a few for you, personalize it!

The FLL season can feel long, but believe us, it can go by really fast! The table below will capture a where you want to be per week. A few tips:

Work backwards from the Qualifier Date: You may not know the date yet so assume it’s the earliest date and then adjust when you get the real date. Any row where you check “Key Milestone” will turn blue.

Account for holidays and vacations: It may seem like you have a lot of time before you remember that certain team members will be away on a vacation or trip. Fill in the last column with known time blocks (those rows will turn grey).

Don’t pick too many milestones as it can become confusing. Try to stay high level: e.g. “by Week 9, we will have picked our project idea” and “by Week 13, we will have 25% of our routes working”. We left a few examples but feel free to change them to what suits your team.

Leave time to test your robot runs. The competition is more about reliability than about point scoring. It’s better to solve less tasks but make them work 99% of the time. We would suggest a minimum of 4 weeks for this phase as testing may force you to go back to the drawing board on certain tasks. We have a nifty tool for this in

Robot Practice Tracker⁠

Project development has multiple phases: While the robot part of the competition can feel circular (experiment, design, test, back to experiment), the project structure is more like a classic design project. There’s a design and research phase, an implementation phase, and a sharing phase. Make sure you leave enough time for each of them.

Start Date

8/17/2021

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Week

Start Date

Key Milestone?

Overall Milestones

Robot Milestones

Project Milestones

Holidays / Vacations

Week 1

8/17/21

Challenge Release Day!

Set up Mission Models

Begin Project research and brainstorms

Week 2

8/24/21

Week 3

8/31/21

Prototype task solutions

Reach out to initial experts

Week 4

9/7/21

Week 5

9/14/21

Initial Route Plan set, divide up routes

Pick an Idea

Week 6

9/21/21

Week 7

9/28/21

Base Robot complete

Start Prototyping

Week 8

10/5/21

Week 9

10/12/21

25% routes working

Finish round 1 prototypes

Week 10

10/19/21

Review with experts

Week 11

10/26/21

50% routes working

Finish round 2 prototypes

Week 12

11/2/21

Review with experts

Week 13

11/9/21

75% routes working

Finalize prototype and share

Week 14

11/16/21

Week 15

11/23/21

100% routes working

Thanksgiving

Week 16

11/30/21

Start practice runs and testing

Start presentation

Week 17

12/7/21

Week 18

12/14/21

Week 19

12/21/21

Christmas

Week 20

12/28/21

New Years

Week 21

1/4/22

Qualifiers start

Week 22

1/11/22

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