Mission Descriptions and Points

Antoś W. - Green Machine Programmer - 5th grade

The Woods robotics team has been working to program their robots to accomplish various missions on the FLL Senior Solutions board. The missions are designed to highlight this years theme - helping to keep seniors active and healthy.  Here are the descriptions of each mission and the number of points you earn by accomplishing them.

Mission 1: Wood Working

Take the chair, bring it back to base, and repair it. 15 points. If the robot brings it out of base and places it under the table, 25 points; if you do not have any part of the chair under the table, you lose the 15 points and you do not get the 25.

Mission 2: Medicine

Use a color sensor to find the green medicine bottle, which is placed randomly on the board by the referee at the beginning of the robot games. Bring the bottle back to base. 45 points.

Mission 3: Service Animals

Push the gray disc, and bring the service animal (dog) to base. The dog’s movement must be initiated by the robot pushing the gray disc, but then the robot may push the service animal directly the rest of the way to base. 25 points.

Mission 4: Bowling

Bring the ball from base to the bowling alley, and make the ball, in any way, hit the bowling pins. Each pin is worth 7 points, and if you hit all the pins, it is 60 points.

Mission 5: Quilting

There are four quilts, two blue and two orange. Bring the four quilts from base and push them together to the other quilts that are already attached to the board. The quilts must be touching the small black triangle in the center of the quilts affixed to the board. Each blue quilt is worth 15 points, and each orange quilt is worth 30. A total of 30 points is possible for blue and 60 for orange. Total: 90 points.

Mission 6: Gardening

Move the plants from base to the garden on the board. The plants’ base must be touching the bright area around the garden. 25 points.

Mission 7: Similarity Recognition

Make the red pointer attached to the board parallel to the pointer attached to the other team's board. This is a teamwork mission. 45 points if the pointers are parallel, and 0 if not.

Mission 8: Flexibility

There are two yellow loops on the far end of the board, away from the base. One loop is close to the ground, but the other one is high up. Bring both yellow loops back to base. 20 points each.

Mission 9: Video Call

Raise the two flags next to the TVs all the way up. You get 20 points for each flag, 40 total.

Mission 10: Ball game

If nothing is done on this mission and the ball rack is left alone, each team automatically earns 70 points. There is a rack mounted between two boards, with half of it over your board and half over the opposing team’s board. There are seven balls on the rack, and each ball that stays on the rack is worth 10 points. There are three blue balls, three red, and one yellow. Yellow is neutral. Red and blue balls belong to one of the two opposing teams. If you push the switch, it moves one of your balls, which are the ones closer to your base, to the middle and knocks out the ball that is currently in the middle. At the end of the game, if your ball is in the middle, it is worth an additional 60 points for your team.  If you time it right and your opponents don't knock out any balls you could earn up to 120 points for this mission.

Mission 11: Stove

Flip the stove switch so it turns off the burners. 25 points.

Mission 12: Strength Exercise

Push the little lever on the fork-lift to raise the weights (the weights are Lego wheels) as high as you can. If you lift the wheels above the red mark, you get 25 points, and if the wheels are within the red mark, you get 15. If they are below the red mark, it is 0 points.

Mission 13: Cardiovascular Exercise

There are arms attached to a contraption on which they rotate. If you rotate them, a pointer moves slightly and you gain 5 points per quarter turn up to a total of 118 points. But, after every quarter turn, you must go back to base and start over from there if you wish to earn more points on this mission. It is very time-consuming to earn the total, and doing it would make it impossible to complete every single mission within the allowed time.

Mission 14: Transitions

Go onto the bridge, and balance the robot on it. If the robot is on the bridge, but it is tilted, it is 45 points. If it is completely balanced, you earn 60 points, but if the robot is touching the ground, 0 points.